Queens Plaza

DUTCH Kills Green, opened in the early 2010s in front of the clock-towered Bank of Manhattan, where Northern Boulevard begins its march to the eastern end of Long Island, contains…

NOW dwarfed by the 765-foot tall, 67-story, concave-fronted Sven luxury tower, the 15-story Bank of Manhattan building in Queens Plaza was once the king of Queens Plaza and indeed once…

YET another remnant of the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park that is seemingly hidden in plain sight can be found on a park path north of Terrace on…

Jackson Avenue begins an almost 100-mile run at Vernon Boulevard just north of Borden Avenue and the west end of the LIRR Queens yards. It was built as a toll…

The Vernon-Jackson #7 train stop in Hunters Point is one of my favorites. It was opened in June 1915 as one of the two original stations on what is today…

Though innumerable glass towers are now going up in Queens Plaza and Hunters Point, one of the most notable buildings in western Queens turns 110 years old this year. The…

Other than the BMT 4th Avenue Broadway Line (N, R, Q and now W trains) perhaps the majority of my subway rides for six decades have been on the Flushing Line,…

For several decades Queens’ tallest building, the 15-story Bank of Manhattan in Queens Plaza was dethroned by the North Shore towers in Glen Oaks and then by the green Citicorp…

During my increasingly lengthy “between full time job” stints, I always flagellate myself into regretting I never learned to drive. Car services always have the need for drivers. I’m told…

Riding on the #7 train I always stake out a position near the door on the left side of the train. On the #7, that’s an ideal spot if you’re…

Here is that magnificent old Ford ad I was talking about on the south side of Northern Boulevard east of 31st Street. You can see it out the window of…

In 2007 I visited Queens Plaza, the gateway to Long Island where the #7 and BMT N trains converge (though both issue from Times Square) and incredibly bad architecture, strip…