WHEN traveling on Northern Boulevard (25A) east of Route 101 (Port Washington Boulevard) one of the abiding mysteries, to me at least, is the presence of these scrolled masts seen…
Nassau County
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Bob Mulero, NYC’s King of Lampposts, tipped me off to one of the coolest things on toast I’ve seen in the NYC area recently. It’s this freestanding fire alarm, with…
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Since moving into Little Neck in 2007, I’ve been wedged between areas of varying ritziness, while maintaining my own hovel of relative poverty. If I wander west, I’m in the…
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These new street signs appear in Kensington, a tony subdivision of the town (or village; I’m too lazy to determine) of Great Neck, which is east of the undefined border of Queens…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Like any big city, New York is located at the juncture of major interstate highways and their auxiliary routes. For example, I-95 has the Long…
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Street signs in Long Island change by municipality, so you’ll see different styles depending on what village or town you’re in. I was bumbling around New Hyde Park, crazed from…
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There was a time when directional signs such as this one, on Plandome and Stonytown Roads in Plandome, Nassau County, were quite prevalent along America’s roadways. The advent of the…
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Just past the city line in Elmont, Hempstead Turnpike (NY 24) passes Belmont Park Racetrack , which captures the public imagination every June as it hosts the third leg, and lengthiest,…
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Great Neck, NY is just one town east of Little Neck, NY (my area) but it may as well be hundreds of miles away, as the two towns are quite…