On May 16, 1857 land comprising 100 acres at Willets Point in northeast Queens was acquired from the Willet family by the government, and six years later, additional acreage was…
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Continued from Across the Creek: July 4th in Greenpoint I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was…
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Photo courtesy: Thomas Rinaldi, Facebook Cricket Wireless recently moved out of 30-29 Steinway Street in Astoria, a hop, skip and jump away from my former haunts at the Quinn Funeral…
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BEACH 90th Street is a station on the A train in the Rockaways, the first on the line after it crosses Jamaica Bay en route to Rockaway Park at Beach…
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We have met the Creek and it is us. Here I am standing on the west end of 58th Road in a no-man’s land (except for the many industrial concerns located…
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WHILE in Astoria on a partly sunny Sunday, I found a pair of plastic-lettered signs on the corner of 44th Street and 25th Avenue for Gašpar’s Deli. First of all,…
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I was stumbling around Astoria in September 2022 when I found something interesting on 45th Street just south of 31st Avenue. I have always found Astoria and Long Island City…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent WE don’t usually associate southeastern Queens with mural ads as this is largely a corner of the borough covered by single-family tract houses. But…
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EARLIER in 2022, FNY discussed Cloverdale Boulevard, one of the “lesser” boulevards found in Queens, a borough in which quite a few main routes are known as “Boulevard.” In the…
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I can’t confirm it, as so far I have seen it noted only on Facebook, but apparently the last classic “Woody” lamppost in use on a parkway within the five…
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So this week I celebrate my 65th birthday, while having no intention to retire unless my current employer or other potential employers decide they don’t want me working anymore. I…
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ONE of these months, I’m going to get my act together and assemble enough photographs of subway and railroad platform lamps to do an omnibus page on them. I have…