Queens

EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…

THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent SINCE the turn of the millennium, the city’s bridges have been subject to road diets, in which space was dedicated for bikes and pedestrians,…

I recently wandered north on Crescent Street in Queens all the way from Hunters Point to Ditmars. I had already done a short Crescent Street page back in 2011, but…

HERE’S a shot from the descending staircase at 31st Street and Astoria Boulevard at the elevated train serving the N and sometimes W. The elevated was built and opened in…

A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…

WHEN I stepped outdoors for a bit of fresh air in this October of perpetual sunshine and 75 degrees, I didn’t expect to get the pleasant surprise that I got.…

GENOVESE was formerly a big name in the pharmacy world, operating over 100 drugstores in the NY metropolitan area. The company was founded by Joseph Genovese in Astoria in 1924,…

VERNON Boulevard’s most venerable structure may be the former Sohmer Piano factory, 11-31 Vernon at 31st Avenue. I first encountered the building several years ago when it was still occupied by the…

WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…

HERE’S a handsome Tudor-ish apartment complex at 30th Drive and 29th Street in Long Island City. Though eastern Queens can sometimes resemble Nassau County, with shady residential streets and wide,…