INDULGE me for a day while I break my own rule and talk about one of the most photographed objects in Queens, including by me. When Donald Fagen of Steely…
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At the corner of West Alley Road and 233rd Street, at the spaghetti ramp interchange of the Horace Harding Expressway (LIE) and Cross Island Parkway, you’ll see a small, unobtrusive…
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THE Frank Kowalinski Post on 61-57 Maspeth Avenue is where the local chapter of Polish Legion of American Veterans (open to vets of all nationalities) gather and conduct business. But this…
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I noticed that the Rita Brady Square sign has disappeared at the crossroads of Woodside, Roosevelt Avenue at 61st Street, where the Flushing El and the elevated LIRR Woodside station…
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FOR years I was confounded by this sign, rendered in the Benguiat type font, at Junction Boulevard and 41st Avenue, south of the Flushing elevated over Roosevelt Avenue. It is…
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WHEN I was a resident in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, Northern Boulevard and 155th Street at the east end of Roosevelt Avenue was something of a fast food mecca, as…
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WHERE Elmhurst meets Jackson Heights, between 82nd and 94th Streets south of Roosevelt Avenue, is a curious little grid of streets all of which carry names in alphabetical order from…
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LOOKING at this photo I took on 11th Avenue facing west from Clintonville Street in Whitestone, I thought immediately of the old Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939-1940 World’s Fair…
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Continued from Part Three THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…
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I have not done enough pieces about Queens, my adopted borough, lately. Some pages are in the offing. In September I walked in eastern Flushing and Auburndale, getting some photos…
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FORGOTTEN FAN Vicki M. passes along this photo of a present-day model drum mailbox and a pebbled concrete post that formerly held a smaller one at Ascan Avenue and Kessel…
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EAST River Tower, 11-24 31st Avenue, is a new 20-story luxury building that towers over the competition in gentrifying Ravenswood, Queens, from this view from Carl Schurz Park on Manhattan’s…