Queens

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…

With your indulgence, I’m going to break format to talk about Tom Seaver, one of my childhood icons (when I was a kid, I was lucky to have three: Seaver,…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In my search for an exciting park by the ocean, my children have taken a liking to Beach 30th Street Playground in the Rockaways. There…

That might seem to be a simple question. If asked, many Queensites would say it’s at Citifield, because MTA signage for the past few decades has proclaimed the stop between…

Bowne House, on Bowne Street north of 38th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, was built in 1661 by English settler John Bowne and, unlike many other colonial houses from the 17th…

The word “utopia” comes from two Greek words meaning “not” and “place,” and so, the word literally means “no place.” It was coined in 1516 by St. Thomas More as…

I write this the day I turn 63. I feel terrific! Except some mornings, when my back is sore and only walking around will ease it. An affliction tailor-made for…