NASSAU County residents know all about Hempstead Turnpike, one of its main east-west auto routes, synonymous with NY 24 for its entire length from the Queens line to East Farmingdale.…
Queens Village
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Quite a bit of Queens real estate bears the name Hollis — the neighborhoods Hollis, Holliswood, Hollis Park Gardens and Hollis Hills, the LIRR Hollis station, Hollis Avenue, Hollis Hills Terrace…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the section of Queens Village to the south of the train tracks where Springfield Boulevard meets Hollis Avenue is a remarkable building: the…
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I have found some slides of eastern Queens scenes circa 1960 or so, the dawn of the modern age in Queens. This is a cluster of attached houses on 103rd…
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One more entry in my Queens 1852 series, then I’ll give it a rest for awhile, though there’s still more territory to cover. I walked Queens Village, which today is…
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As stated here a few days ago I have been busy scanning and labelling vintage postcards, slides and photos for the Greater Astoria Historical Society archives. When I came across…
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After having previously walked Jamaica Avenue from its beginnings in Brooklyn out to Lefferts Boulevard and then along its easternmost stretch (now known as Jericho Turnpike at the insistence of the…
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There’s a wide, 6-lane boulevard way out in eastern Queens recently renamed for a small town of about 14,000 in eastern Nassau. Settled by Welshman Robert Williams after he purchased…
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ATTENTION has been paid, and rightly so, to the NYC subway system on its 100th anniversary in 2004, but there’s an even older transit system in New York existing alongside the…