HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…
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IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…
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In the running for the most attractive building on Metropolitan Avenue‘s 14-mile length from Williamsburg to Jamaica is the Hess-Miller Funeral Home at 65th Street. Its location is no coincidence,…
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REX Cole (1887-1967) was originally a lamp manufacturer, then became associated with General Electric in the 1920s and designed white enamel Monitor Top refrigerators. Famed architect Raymond Hood designed a series…
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I was amazed to see this pair of vintage General Electric M400 lamps, on a Twin post in the parking lot of the GW Supermarket in Northern Boulevard just east…
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MOST likely a testament to my being out of action for several months from mid 2022-late 2023, I had not encountered this genre of signage designed to point out highlights…
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Continued from Part One WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One…
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In early April I began what I hoped would be a lengthy walk in Ozone Park and Howard Beach, an intriguing area with odd dead ends and even some hidden…
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HERE’S a painted ad for the Loew’s Woodside Theatre, which is actually still standing on Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street. In one of the most unusual reuses for a theater,…
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THROUGH much of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Penny Bridge was a toll bridge on the Bushwick & Newtown Turnpike (end of Meeker Ave). In the seventeenth century, it…
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WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One and Done, concerning…
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No, the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is hardly “forgotten,” but at heart Forgotten NY is an infrastructure website and I thought I’d mention it on the 60th anniversary of…