THE Reformed Dutch Church of Hallets Cove (later Good Church of Deliverance) at 27-26 12th Street in Astoria Village was built in 1888; its verdigris’ed steeple replaced the original in 1900.…
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WAY back in 2015, the Long Island Garden Railway Society created several mock-ups of World’s Fair 1964-65 exhibitions and displayed them in the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing, which I…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, here…
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JUST an everyday side street in Woodhaven, a short section of 102nd Avenue runs four blocks from 81st to 89th Street (some numbers are skipped) a block south of 101st…
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On February 14, 2026 cabin fever finally got to me and I tired of cooking in my own juice, and made my first camera foray of the year. As it…
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WHILE trolling Google Street View (I do it to pass the hours between waking and sleeping) I found this interesting item on the corner of Hillside Avenue and 143rd Street…
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THE main branch of the Long Island Railroad runs east-west through the heart of Queens, exiting the borough into Nassau County in Bellerose. The railroad also diverges into two branches…
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FROM the Rockaway Times Facebook page comes this image of the classic red with gold lettering F.W. Woolworth sign, after previous tenants’ signs (Edwina’s Little Angels Daycare and Job Lots)…
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PICTURED here is Women’s Plaza, on the north side of Queens Boulevard at Union Turnpike (here the service road of the Jackie Robinson Parkway). I got this image from Google…
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I don’t refer to it much but the longest tenure at any job I ever had was as a compositor at the Times Ledger chain of newspapers at an office…
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FROM the new Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Samuel Renne house, also known as the Big House and the Bretonniere house, which had been…
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I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing sensitivity to wind and…