Join me and the Greater Astoria Historical Society for a look at Skillman Avenue, the road that runs along Sunnyside Yards and through Sunnyside. We’ll see the Building With 1000…
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WHILE I did not patronize Doyle’s Corner, Broadwaya nd 42nd Street in Long Island City often, as I lived miles away in Little Neck, the longtime HQ of the Greater…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post Tucked in a remote corner of north Queens, north and east of 45th Street and 19th Avenue and just west of the Rikers Island…
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Forgotten Fan Peter Moskos passes on this bit of Astoria’s past at an apartment house at 30-80 32nd Street between 30th and 31st Avenue. A careful look at the entrance…
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THE Hell Gate Bridge was the final piece in the puzzle of running railroad trains into Midtown Manhattan. The tubes connecting Long Island with Penn Station opened in 1910, and Hell…
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STRANGE to say it but I’ve seen the massive Silvercup sign in Long Island City more often from the rear than from the front. This shot is from an eastbound…
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HERE’S the Richmond Hill LIRR elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road Lower Montauk Branch in 1997. When in the next year I heard this line would be mostly…
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WHAT, you were expecting 42nd Street in Manhattan? That’s probably the least-Forgotten street in New York City, though it would be interesting to find “forgotten” aspects of it. I’d have…
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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…