As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…
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FOR an unknown reason, New York City has been cagy about assigning a 200th Street. In Inwood, one of the main east-west streets is Dyckman, which runs from the Hudson…
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THERE’S a two-block stretch of Laurel Hill Boulevard between 65th Place and 67th Street independent of the BQE, and the block between 66th and 67th Streets actually has residences and…
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QUEENS streets were numbered gradually by the Queens Topographical Bureau beginning in 1915, under a system designed by Charles U. Powell of the Queens Topographical Bureau. Many think that Robert…
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In March 2022, when FNY presented the baseball streets of Commack in Suffolk County, several streets in NYC also named for baseball players were pointed out to me. Frankly I…
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DEMOCRAT Grover Cleveland (who moved to New York State from New Jersey as a young man and served as mayor of Buffalo and NYS governor) holds the distinction of being the only…
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THE symbol of Warsaw, Poland, is a mermaid wielding a sword and a shield. As early as the late 1300s, surviving paintings of coats of arms show a a creature…
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THERE are a couple of artifacts in Maspeth that may seem like a head-scratcher, as there are a couple of pieces of infrastructure that reference a neighborhood a couple of…
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THE topography between 64th Street and 65th Place at 53rd Avenue in Maspeth was deemed to hilly to build a road so instead, a pedestrian staircase connects the two routes,…
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IT’S a rainy day and I was going through the Forgotten NY photo archive when I ran across this photo by the Somach photo studio of the Elmhurst RR grade…
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YOUNGER Sunnysiders may not get the name of this Queens Boulevard bar but its owners no doubt did. The name refers to an old chanty from the British city of…
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I have found what is, without a doubt, the shortest street in the NYC metropolitan area and possibly, the shortest in the United States. It’s found at the undefended border…