SUNSHINE is my undecaffeinated coffee, my 5 Hour Energy, my Red Bull. I get more done on days with full sunshine than I do on overcast days; nonetheless, I have…
Queens
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TIME for another peek into the past through Al Ponte’s Time Machine on Facebook. This view is of the southeast corner of Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue, across from today’s…
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I have often said that you can find all kinds of strange objects lurking beneath overpasses in NYC, and years ago I found one of the last extant Gumball lamps…
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A panel sidewalk sign for the Paramount Fish Market was revealed in late 2022 at #300 Knickerbocker Avenue between Suydam and Hart Streets when an awning sign for a thrift…
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I was thinking of West Maspeth, a part of town few but its inhabitants give a second thought, specifically the region just east of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk…
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By the time I snapped this formidable smokestack once belonging to the Peter Van Iderstine glue factory along Newtown Creek in the spring of 2017, operations had long ago moved…
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I was staggering around in western Queens in July 2020, crazed from the humidity, when I found this mailbox trio. The mailbox on the left, painted olive green, is called…
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IT’S no-frills dining at its finest in this restaurant on Laurel Hill Boulevard in 1938. Straight-backed wood seats, tables and checkered tablecloths in what was likely an Italian eatery. Within…
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ODDLY enough, both The Bronx and Queens have Rainey Parks, named for two separate Raineys. The Bronx Rainey Park, pictured here, is by far the newer one as it was…
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THE central Queens neighborhood Fresh Meadows, known best for the eponymously-named extensive residential community centered at 188th Street and the Long Island Expressway that was constructed there between 1946 and 1949…
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CLOSING out 2022 (how long can FNY go on?) In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a trolley line connected Flushing and Jamaica, running originally through the farms and…
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THE name Russell Sage pops up in two disparate areas in Queens that otherwise have nothing to do with the other. The doyenne of Far Rockaway churches is the Russell…