ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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AFTER concluding my Crescent Street walk in late September 2024 I decided to head east on 23rd Avenue toward the Astoria el to get the N train back to Queensboro…
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After 4 out of 5 weekends when I handed the reins over to Sergey Kadinsky, I’m returning to weekend longform this week and I have a large backlog to get…
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In September 2024 I walked Crescent Street in Long Island City almost its entire length and then headed east to 31st Street to get the N train at the end…
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HERE’S a handsome Tudor-ish apartment complex at 30th Drive and 29th Street in Long Island City. Though eastern Queens can sometimes resemble Nassau County, with shady residential streets and wide,…
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THE Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in Louisville, KY in 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson. The organization was tainted by racism for its first few…
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ASTORIA Village has suffered greatly from building speculators with large sums of cash in hand. Numerous important houses have been demolished, only to be replaced with large, boxy multi-family dwellings. The…
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BETWEEN 2011 and 2018, before the Zoom era began in earnest, when I wasn’t working I would report two or three times a week to the The Quinn-Morisco Funeral Home,…
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RECENTLY home to Newel Props, which rents furniture for movie and stage productions, and the City View Racquet Club, this building which fills an entire block at Skillman Avenue and Van…
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WHILE in Astoria on a partly sunny Sunday, I found a pair of plastic-lettered signs on the corner of 44th Street and 25th Avenue for Gašpar’s Deli. First of all,…
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I was stumbling around Astoria in September 2022 when I found something interesting on 45th Street just south of 31st Avenue. I have always found Astoria and Long Island City…
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I’LL say it right off the bat this time: long ago, 21st Street, a main artery running from Ditmars through Long Island City to Hunters Point, was called Van Alst…