IT’S been a few years (April 2021) since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th Avenue and 166th Street near Queens College. It’s a…
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ELIOT Avenue, seen here at Lutheran Avenue and 75th Street, roars through Middle Village as one of the few continuous auto northeast routes through the neighborhood. It connects Metropolitan Avenue…
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THIS grouping of attached two-story residences found on 59th Drive between Fresh Pond Road and 64th Street, opposite the Rieff Playground, was built as workers’ houses of the Sampson’s Oil…
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SATURDAY, April 13, 2024 wasn’t a banner day for Forgotten NY, as I had planned an expedition to Howard Beach. The Q53 crawled along despite a dedicated bus lane on…
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IT’S happening. Slowly, almost inexorably. But it’s happening and it’s getting more and more noticeable by the day. Yes, once again, I am getting interested in NYC’s railroad pedestrian crossings.…
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HERE’S a map excerpt I found at a NY Transit Museum exhibition of subway maps in early 2020; it shows the Corona (now the Flushing) and Astoria lines under construction.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent FLATBUSH Avenue is not the longest road in Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue edges it out) but it comes close to the record on its lengthy route…
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AFTER 25 years of Forgotten New York…official on March 26th…I’ve begun to take note of IND signage from the 1930s. Not the large identification tablets seen on the station platforms,…
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WOODHAVEN Boulevard is but a mere local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which runs express between Rooosevelt and Continental Avenues, but were it built today instead of the…
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JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…
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MANY Corona and Flushing residents, across the mighty Flushing River from each other, believe Willets Point is located just west of the river, where Citifield is. After all, that’s what…
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JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…