AFTER who knows how many decades in service, an ancient Department of Traffic sign (the agency is now the Department of Transportation, and is now mostly interested in bicycle lanes)…
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RESIDING just within the borough of Queens at Bushwick and Onderdonk Avenues you can find one of the oldest houses in Queens: probably only the Quaker Meeting House and Bowne…
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On a recent jaunt in northern Astoria, I took the N train to its northern terminal at Ditmars Boulevard. I found an interesting unofficial alleyway that allows midblock passage for…
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HERE’S a utility pole carrying power lines, telephone lines and cable TV lines, as well as wire devoted to other uses, at 38th Avenue and 57th Street in Woodside. Thousands…
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WAY back in 1999, or it could have been 1998, I obtained this shot from the pedestrian boardwalk above what is now called the Mets-Willets Point station on the Port…
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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…