On a recent Saturday I traveled around Blissville in western Queens with my friend Mitch Waxman, who I call the King of Newtown Creek. He is a historian and preservationist…
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WINFIELD, Queens was situated roughly in the area within the following borders: Woodside Avenue to the north, Mount Zion Cemetery, Calamus Road (Avenue, today) and Maurice Avenue to the south, the New…
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THIS massive neon Pepsi sign, using Pepsi’s old script logo and old-style bottle, used to be best seen from Dag Hammarskjold Park on East 47th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, though…
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TODAY I set the controls of my H.G. Wells Time Machine to 1938 and went just down the road from where I live to what is now Nassau Boulevard at…
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WHAT was originally called the Meeker Avenue Bridge when it opened in 1939 was renamed the Tadeusz Kościuszko Bridge for the Polish general who aided George Washington during the American Revolution on 9/22/1940;…
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Of late, I have been sifting and rummaging through the Forgotten NY archives. Over the course of a quarter century, a lot of pictures can fall by the wayside. In…
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If you know where to look, there are a number of abandoned stations, unusual stations, as well as intact stations that have been closed for quite awhile if you are…
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DEVELOPER Fred Trump (1905-1999) began building middle-class houses in Queens from a very young age, during the 1920s, and built Trump Market at Jamaica Avenue and 78th Avenue in the…
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FOR reasons the doctors are still unsure about, I’m unable to walk more than a mile or two without pain; I hope to get a diagnosis and treatment sometime soon,…
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On the east end of 35th Avenue in Bayside, which oddly becomes a languidly curving route east of Corbett Road, is one of Bayside’s secrets, Golden Pond. An aged Henry Fonda…
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I have been looking back on ForgottenTours of the past, reminiscing somewhat because for a variety of reasons, including the Pandemic, I have not been able to do a live…
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THOUGH I do a lot of history in Forgotten New York, it’s ultimately a site about infrastructure…I have been taking a keen interest in things like stoplights and lampposts since…