Queens

Can it be over 20 years since I traveled the length of the Long Island Motor Parkway in Glen Oaks? When I bicycled in Queens I used it all the…

WITH its distinctive Tudor-style ticket offices with shaped and cut glass and unique luminaires, Forest Hills station’s position overlooking Burns Street seems perfect to give a speech, and that’s exactly what…

OUT for my usual morning walk, I passed by two Little Neck dead ends, Cornell Lane and Jessie Court, which issue from the north side of Northern Boulevard east of…

PART of the fun in exploring NYC neighborhoods is that you can look up the block and see a random gilded onion dome. The one seen here, on 118th Street…

REMINDERS of the colonial-era Bowne family can be seen all over NYC, from Flushing, Queens to City Island, Bronx. I lived in Flushing 14 years, 1993-2007, and have been on…

THERE has been a drugstore on the SW corner of Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue in Elmhurst since 1921, which was when Queens Boulevard (formerly Hoffman Boulevard in this stretch)…

WHILE I did not patronize Doyle’s Corner, Broadwaya nd 42nd Street in Long Island City often, as I lived miles away in Little Neck, the longtime HQ of the Greater…

FORGOTTEN New York has been put together during four separate decades and is now been produced for 27 years plus, as of September 2026. As such, it spans the decades.…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor I’m the type of person who will take the first available spot and walk a while, rather than circulating around looking for a close-up spot…

VAN WYCK Expressway is a north-south expressway that roars from the Whitestone Expressway at the Flushing River all the way south to John F. Kennedy Airport, where it loops around…

On a recent jaunt to Hunters Point, I was heartened to see an honorific street sign honoring Tony Mazzarella, who opened the Waterfront Crabhouse in 1978. It attracted famous visitors…

Since Sergey’s office is now in Far Rockaway, he will be offering numerous posts in the neighborhood, which has been underrepresented in Forgotten NY through the years. PRIOR to 1898,…