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…
Maspeth
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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…
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Maspeth isn’t a location many associate with DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), a founding father who served as NY State Assemblyman, NYS Senator, NYS Governor, US Senator and NYC Mayor during an…
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I’ve been fond of showing excepts from a Dripps map of Queens County produced in 1852 (linked from here), showing roads that existed back then and explaining where they are…
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I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…
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In March 2019 I was given the opportunity to appear in the New York Post for Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary, with an interview by the Post‘s Hana Alberts and…
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Though a rough grid has been in command of the Queens street layout as dozens of separate housing developments knit together disparate small towns in Queens over the decades of…
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Time to do a little bit of catchup in FNY. I go out with the camera all the time, so there’s no surprise that a lot of pictures are in…