BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SINCE the demolition of Shea Stadium in early 2009, Forgotten-NY has been documenting hidden train station signs that directed travelers to this former ballpark. With…
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SITUATED at a bend on Hillside Avenue on the border of Jamaica Hills is a hidden war memorial that wasn’t always as clandestinely placed as it is today. On a…
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HERE is a classic Amelia Opdyke “Oppy” Jones “Subway Sun” I found in one of the Transit Museum’s classic trainsets on the Brighton Line a few years ago encouraging people…
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I am always seeking out mass transit “missed opportunities.” I think one of these is at the north end of the elevated Astoria Line, which runs above 31st Street in…
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A nickname the late radio legend Don Imus gave himself many years ago because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement was “Tres Huevos.” I may…
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QUEENS Village, centered at Springfield Blvd. and Jamaica Avenue, was known originally as Little Plains, then Brushville, after a local landowner, until about 1920. The present elevated station was constructed in…
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WEST Maspeth, also known as Laurel Hill, was world headquarters of Hagstrom Maps, whose plant is shown here on 46-35 54th Road near 48th Street. Though the company moved out long…
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QUEENS Village, centered at Springfield Blvd. and Jamaica Avenue, was known originally as Little Plains, then Brushville, after a local landowner, until about 1920. The present elevated station was constructed in…
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ONLY in the ‘dirty 30s’ (as weatherman Tex Antoine used to say) could a laundry be named the most beautiful building in Queens…though in the borough of Archie Bunker, maybe that isn’t…
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It occurs to me that I haven’t done an entry in the Forgotten NY Street Necrology category for awhile, and in this case, I want to do something a bit…
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It seems odd to everyone but me, but I have always been a subway and mass transit buff (and its deterioration the past few years is severely disappointing, still I…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SECOND to Queens Boulevard, with its express and local lanes, the north-south version of this major artery is the combination of Woodhaven and Cross Bay…