By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent A great avenue deserves a great gateway and some of New York’s famous roads have iconic monuments or parks at their starting points. But most…
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Several New York City neighborhoods come together in the triangle of territory opposite St. John’s Cemetery formed by Cooper Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Woodhaven Boulevard. I have to pick one,…
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About 13 years ago, when I was looking around for a new place in Queens after 14 years on the Flushing-Auburndale border, I took a look at Parkway Village, which…
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There’s a lot going on in this 1929 E.E. Rutter photo of Pitkin Avenue and Sitka Street. For example, note the stacked street signs. If you look carefully you can…
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When most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…
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I never drink alone and I never eat ice cream alone. I am not and have never been an alcoholic: however, in years past, I have been known to polish…
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By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird…
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I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…
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I got to thinking the other day (that’s always a dubious proposition; nothing but woe visits when I do that) about the streets in New York City that are “Little.”…
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Why is there a wrought-iron rendering of a locomotive on the Kissena Park fence at KIssena Boulevard and Rose Avenue? There’s a reason it’s there. A lengthy gash of green…
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During the week I was scuttling around Floral Park, just south of Little Neck, testing out a healing sore calf and looking for some shade, since it was 95 degrees.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a block of 18th Avenue between 126th and 127th Streets in College Point, Queens, the avenue widens with a green traffic median containing a…