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,…
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In 1967 an experimental Road and Rail bus enters Long Island Rail Road tracks in Maspeth, Queens. These buses had an extra set of wheels that fit on rail tracks…
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Amazingly, the one and only object protected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in Maspeth, Queens is this vintage Type F lamppost that illuminates a staircase connecting 65th Place and 64th…
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I was still not working, and the dead dog heat of August baked with its usual intensity (and this year the dead dog heat would be extended into October, when…
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After exploring that odd corner of Queens where every street is named 60, my day wasn’t over. I lit out into eastern Maspeth and got as far as Elmhurst before…
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Often, paving bricks offer a window into the past. I was on 64th Street in the Ridgewood Gardens area in northern Maspeth a couple of years ago when I spotted…
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If you have been reading FNY for awhile you know I’m fascinated with the patterns produced by Queens’ occasionally wacko street numbering system (and I also speculate what it would…
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Much of Maspeth in southwest Queens sits on a high hill, some of which (not in this particular view) was named the Ridgewood Plateau by real estate developers (an apartment…
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This thick-shafted, guy wired traffic light at Fresh Pond Road and 59th Drive in Maspeth is just like thousands of others around town. But when these large stoplights first appeared…
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The Clinton Diner, at 58th Street and Maspeth Avenue in an otherwise godforsaken section of western Queens, is one of a vanishing breed of roadside diners, catering to workers in…
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Grand Street and its eastern extension, Grand Avenue, is a major thoroughfare in Brooklyn and Queens, running from the East River in Williamsburg northeast to Queens Boulevard and Broadway in…
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“A stollen is a fruit cake containing dried fruit and often marzipan and covered with sugar, powdered sugar or icing sugar. The cake is usually made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts and spices. Stollen is a traditional German cake, usually eaten…