Queens

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…

TIME grows short before bedtime, so I’ll repeat an item from my twilight Calvary Cemetery-Blissville walk in November 2022. Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle reports that the Catholic diocese…

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…

LIKE a favorite book or movie that you reread or rewatch, there are some NYC neighborhoods I return to again and again because there are infrastructural or historical aspects I…

RICHMOND Hill preserves its very own classic movie palace of yore… and this one has a marquee that has at least retained the look it had in its halcyon days,…

HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home all week and my…

TODAY I’ll mention a street of barely any consequence that I decided to cover while I was meandering around in the neighborhood, Boyce Avenue, one of Queens’ relatively few named…

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens…

I don’t often find people I knew on street signs, but one exception is at St. Thomas Church in Woodhaven at the corner of 88th Avenue and 88th Street, which…

In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens in Flushing and Little…

As a preview of an upcoming Bell Boulevard page, here’s one of the few cobblestone-exterior New York City dwellings. At 35-34 Bell Boulevard stands a magnificent two-story building with an…

IT’S been years since I’ve been on an airplane. I last flew in 2008, to spend a week in San Francisco. I had a ball climbing up the steep hills…