Queens

There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…

Today I was all set to write about Trimble Road, a little spit of a street running for one block along the Woodside Long Island Rail Road platform between 63rd…

There are quite a few ancient signs displaying former letter telephone exchanges around town used with dial rotary phones, which displayed letters as well as numbers; the first two characters…

Reading various online accounts, I’m aware that a lot of people have had a particularly bad year in 2020, from Covid and its consequences that I don’t have to enumerate…

Continued from Part 1 Restricted by the Covid crisis, or the Great Infection, In May and June, only camera foraging I did was in the neighborhoods surrounding my home in…

I’ve been impressed by the size and design of several high schools built in the early 20th Century. There’s Fort Hamilton High in Bay Ridge, Franklin K. Lane in Cypress…

I hadn’t been to Captain Tilly Park lately, which occupies an irregular plot on the border of Briarwood and Jamaica Hills. Much of it isn’t bordered by streets, but by…

I was meeting my friend Vicki M. for lunch in Forest Hills and had exited the subway at the back end of the 71st/Continental Avenue station when I found myself…

German immigrant Henry C. Bohack opened his first grocery in 1887 and over the years Bohack developed into one of the first powerhouse grocery store chains. Grand Union, Key Food…

I find it interesting that the name of the Bliss Grocery at Queens Boulevard and 47th Street in Sunnyside was not named for the owner of the grocery, or from…

I’m going to mostly talk about a lost road in western Queens today, and as part of the whole thing, I’m also going to mention one of Queens’ lost sports…

Sunnyside, a fairly large wedge of western Queens defined by the Sunnyside Yards on the north, 48th Street on the east, and the Queens Midtown Expressway on the south, isn’t…