BELIEVE it or not a set of these metal “Whitestone” poles, complete with SLECO “cuplights” could be seen at the Queens side of the Roosevelt Island Bridge at Vernon Boulevard…
Queens
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Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…
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From FNY’s first Ridgewood page in 2005: In the first decade of the 20th Century Paul Stier built more than 750 houses in Ridgewood under his own name, and after…
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CATCHING up on some places I haven’t been yet, I decided to go over some well-worn territory for me at least, from Astoria to Woodside. From 2012 to 2018 I…
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TOO often the decline in religious observance or demographic changes in neighborhoods have been documented here with churches and synagogues demolished in favor of uninspiring brick and glass residential towers.…
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THE 1939-40 World’s Fair may have been more storied and better-remembered (now by few alive today), but the 1964-65 Fair had its whiz-bang moments as well…and I was there, eating…
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ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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A “quickie” this weekend. Hopefully, weekend longforms will return soon, though (thankfully?) I’m thinking the days of my 100-photo epics are done. I don’t travel much: when I have the…
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If anything, in 1931 Winchester Boulevard was a bit more developed than Hillside Avenue out in Hollis Hills. Both were dirt roads that got muddy in a hurry after the…
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DOMINIE’S Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie),…
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In early February 2025, a month that was generally cold with at least some snow, unlike recent winters, I took advantage of a relatively mild Saturday and walked Jamaica Avenue…
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In 2007, on Forgotten New York’s first Douglaston-Little Neck tour, the late great Nigey Lennon, author-musician (The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain In California, Reinventing the Wheel) gives me a breather…