By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY correspondent On a recent Friday afternoon, I was driving to drop my daughter off at a friend’s house in Queens Village. Google driving directions decided that…
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HUNTERS POINT, at the extreme west end of Queens abutting the East River north of Newtown Creek, has been visited often by the Forgotten NY camera. In the last 25…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORContributor, Forgotten New York In 2021, Kevin posted an article on National Street in Corona and mentioned some facts about the National Race Course that once existed in…
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Reprinting an item from Forgotten New York The Book, which turns 20 years old this September; if you haven’t got it yet, there’s a link elsewhere on this page. Much…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORFNY Contributor It always amazes me how many times I find things while fishing around for something else. I was recently poking around on the 1924 aerial photos…
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THE spring and summer of 2020 was an interesting time to rove about with a camera. The Great Infection set in in March, and I limited myself to pacing around…
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WERE I to hazard a guess about the derivation or etymology of the word “stationery,” without looking it up in Merriam-Webster or Funk & Wagnalls, I’d say it’s because writing…
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For some time I have been bemused by one of the street names in southern Bayside, along Cloverdale Boulevard south of Oakland Lake in the Queens Community College area. The…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post Tucked in a remote corner of north Queens, north and east of 45th Street and 19th Avenue and just west of the Rikers Island…
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Passing Bellerose Tiles and Building Materials on Jericho Turnpike west of 249th Street in Bellerose in February 2026, my first outing after a long layoff due to cold, wind and…
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Forgotten Fan Peter Moskos passes on this bit of Astoria’s past at an apartment house at 30-80 32nd Street between 30th and 31st Avenue. A careful look at the entrance…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post BRIARWOOD, Queens was developed in stages beginning in 1905 by the Briarwood Land Company and bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west,…