A few years ago I wrote a few columns for the Huffington Post; I gave up doing it because the payment was $0.00. Here’s a piece about various rails and…
Queens
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A week ago in 2020, I did a Brooklyn A to Z page about southern Brooklyn avenues named for letters of the alphabet, Avenue A to Z. There are a…
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I have to explain just a little how I sort out photos for Forgotten New York. I use two cameras, one being a Panasonic Lumix. I bought a used one…
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I moved to Little Neck from Flushing on July 1, 2007 and had long heard of Patrick’s Pub on Northern Boulevard off Little Neck Parkway even before I got there,…
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Rockaway Playland, the Rockaway Peninsula’s answer to Coney Island, was in business between 1928 (as an amusement park in the classic sense; various amusement parks had operated at Rockaway Beach…
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Grand Avenue Pizza is not on Grand Avenue but it is on an avenue that used to be Grand. I’ll explain in a minute. Today I got out of the…
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Well, it had to happen: I’m running out of fresh images to populate Forgotten New York with, as I’ve been mostly restricted to eastern Queens with the Covid Crisis. Fear…
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On my Maspeth wanderings (I have Maspeth wanderings; Blissville wanderings; Richmondtown wanderings; Inwood wanderings; Gravesend wanderings; Wakefield wanderings; you get the picture) I have always been fascinated with Mazeau Street…
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From beginning to end, from Brooklyn through Queens and into Nassau County, Linden Boulevard is one of NYC’s lengthiest thoroughfares, running a total of 12.3 miles. However it’s also unique…
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During the Coronavirus Crisis, my scuttling meanderings have been limited to the immediate neighborhood surrounding Forgotten New York headquarters in Little Neck, so I have been walking in ever-increasing concentric…
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Graffiti-scrawled subway cars reached their peak in 1982, a year in which the MTA’s subway operations reached their nadir, with older cars from previous decades broke down regularly and track…
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Here’s a look at a Queens grocery store or delicatessen in July 1938. The shelves are chockablock with canned, packaged and bottled goods. You can see packs of Coca-Cola, for…