Every couple of weeks I grab the camera and walk for a few miles; I wish it was more than that, but I’d have to be underemployed again. In late…
Maspeth
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As early as 1890, Polish immigrants chose Maspeth in which to settle. In 1921, the Polish National Home (or in Polish, “Polski Dom Narodowy”) was founded in order to teach…
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The streets of Long Island City, Ridgewood and to a lesser degree, Woodside, are lined with blond bricked Matthews Model Flats, each unit produced for $8000, beginning in 1915 by…
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Every so often while prowling around the lesser-known NYC neighborhoods (OK, who am I kidding, it’s usually only me that prowls like this, but I’ll stick with the phrasing) you…
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Woodside is often the jump-off point for some of my lengthier walks. The reason is simple. It’s the westernmost Long Island Rail Road stop in Queens (on my branch, that…
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Maspeth’s WWI Memorial is in a traffic triangle named for a local soldier, Walter Garlinge. Originally NYC Parks Department had posted a sign calling it “Garlinger Triangle” adding an incorrect…
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The long-armed “Corvington” lamppost, originally dubbed the “boulevard post” first appeared around 1900, give or take a few years, and were manufactured to illuminate wider roads, such as Broadway north…
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In a neighborhood that has its share of historic structures (some of which, like the Grand Avenue “wheelwright house” have been razed in recent years), this lamppost is Maspeth’s only…
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Of the many bridges that cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek, which includes the Pulaski (McGuiness Boulevard), J.J. Byrne (Greenpoint Avenue) Kosciuszko (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Metropolitan Avenue bridge, and…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level, but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…
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Somehow I have overlooked this pair of painted ads on the NW corner of Fresh Pond Road and Eliot Avenue. The ads are by the same signpainter and are flogging…
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Until Starbucks and Subway supplant them all, the corner diner is the backbone of breakfast and lunch not only in Maspeth but in Woodlawn, Bayside, Midwood, Castleton Corners, Throg(g)s Neck,…