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…
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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…