Queens

I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…

EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…

It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…

PERIODICALLY I visit Astoria Village to see how it is getting along. I first saw the neighborhood in 1998 at the dawn of the Forgotten New York Era, when there…

BESET by nagging maladies and injuries…some of which are still ongoing (the lower back is a frequent target for the pain gods) …I was in the mood for a somewhat…

It had been awhile…perhaps since before the pandemic began in 2020…that I had been in Glendale. It’s a hike from any of the buses that run from the LIRR in…

I’LL admit it. I’d like to get my name on an honorific New York City street sign. However, if I do I’ll never be able to see it because the…

DUTCH Kills Green, opened in the early 2010s in front of the clock-towered Bank of Manhattan, where Northern Boulevard begins its march to the eastern end of Long Island, contains…

NOW dwarfed by the 765-foot tall, 67-story, concave-fronted Sven luxury tower, the 15-story Bank of Manhattan building in Queens Plaza was once the king of Queens Plaza and indeed once…

I’ve said repeatedly to watch carefully when walking under elevated trains. Not for falling debris (not that that can’t happen) but for outmoded or unusual signage or lamp fixtures, because…

SOMEDAY a definitive book, or even a webpage, will be written about the hundreds of war memorials that are scattered all over the five boroughs, ranging from tiny to massive.…

On Facebook, William Padron supplies this map displayed map inside a vintage-1917 IRT Lo-V type trailer subway car #4902 at the New York Transit Museum. Lincoln (52nd), Fisk (69th), Junction Avenue…