Queens

CREEDMOOR Psychiatric Center is located on the old grounds of the Creedmoor rifle range, deeded to New York State for that use by the National Guard in 1872. International matches…

HERE’S a look at the 168th Street elevated train platform in Jamaica sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s. We are probably looking at a fan trip as there…

Whenever I am caught inside with a camera, I am usually wisely thrown out. My friend FNY correspondent Sergey Kadinsky doesn’t run into that kind of trouble and got inside…

TODAY’S view in older Queens takes us back to 1937 and this view of Saultell Avenue looking north toward Corona Avenue/111th Street, with the still undeveloped Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in…

WITH proponents of the so-called QueensLink, a proposed rail line revival that would link subways or LIRR lines in Rego Park to a subway in Woodhaven, rallying once more at…

BEFORE the land between Elmhurst and Flushing was developed in the 1850′s, there were only a dozen families living in the area. From the highest point on a hill 108…

In the early 1920s, in addition to assigning the majority of streets numbers and creating a unique hyphenated house numbering method, the Queens Topographical Bureau also designated several major routes…

JACKSON Heights is not named for President Andrew Jackson, as might be assumed. Instead, it’s named for the man who built Northern Boulevard. Northern Boulevard was built in 1859, and…

ONE of Queens’ best-kept secrets can be accessed via  a driveway at 35th Avenue at 71st Street between an animal hospital and a Chinese restaurant. Walk right in past a…

In the colonial era, the neighborhood now known as Maspeth, Queens was the site of the home of a prominent canal builder, De Witt Clinton, who held nearly every available…

IT’S been quite awhile…2005, to be exact… when I last extensively walked in Brownsville, East New York and that deliberately nonmaintained backwater known as The Hole (even Google Maps calls…

I resided in eastern Flushing, or western Auburndale, depending where you draw the border, between 1993 and 2007 at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street. It was a 4th floor apartment…