THIS grouping of attached two-story residences found on 59th Drive between Fresh Pond Road and 64th Street, opposite the Rieff Playground, was built as workers’ houses of the Sampson’s Oil…
Maspeth
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In April 2017, Mitch Waxman, a member of the Newtown Creek Alliance, conducted one of his Newtown Creek tours, his most comprehensive, which he called “Creek-a-Thon”. It was an all-day affair…
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In the colonial era, the neighborhood now known as Maspeth, Queens was the site of the home of a prominent canal builder, De Witt Clinton, who held nearly every available…
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SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…
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I was thinking of West Maspeth, a part of town few but its inhabitants give a second thought, specifically the region just east of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk…
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We have met the Creek and it is us. Here I am standing on the west end of 58th Road in a no-man’s land (except for the many industrial concerns located…
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THE symbol of Warsaw, Poland, is a mermaid wielding a sword and a shield. As early as the late 1300s, surviving paintings of coats of arms show a a creature…
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THERE are a couple of artifacts in Maspeth that may seem like a head-scratcher, as there are a couple of pieces of infrastructure that reference a neighborhood a couple of…
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THE topography between 64th Street and 65th Place at 53rd Avenue in Maspeth was deemed to hilly to build a road so instead, a pedestrian staircase connects the two routes,…
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THERE’S something odd about Caldwell Avenue in Queens, which runs from 68th Street at Mount Olivet Cemetery east and southeast to Dry Harbor Road at about 84th Street, though it’s…
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I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…
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On my Maspeth wanderings (I have Maspeth wanderings; Blissville wanderings; Richmondtown wanderings; Inwood wanderings; Gravesend wanderings; Wakefield wanderings; you get the picture) I have always been fascinated with Mazeau Street…