Well-worn territory for sure, but from November to February I did a fair bit of walking around in Astoria, especially in its northern stretch. This week, I wanted to do…
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When I snapped this shot looking east at Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard opposite Calvary Cemetery in 2011 I knew that I was taking a photo of one historic…
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A short time ago I did an article for StreetEasy about six American presidents who had streets named for them in New York City. Actually, I’ve researched all 45 presidents,…
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I was stumped on what to write about — I’ve been lethargic today and even napped from 1 to 2 PM — so I decided to go back to June…
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Interstate 495 is a very long road. It runs from the Queens Midtown Tunnel all the way east to Riverhead in Suffolk County. It was built in segments beginning in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent There is so much that can be said about Rochdale Village, the 120-acre co-op in southeastern Queens that was built on the site of a…
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On December 2018, a crystal clear day when shadows were at their harshest, I hiked around southwest Long Island City. Inspired by the news earlier in the year that Amazon…
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There’s been a lot of news about the subways and transportation in New York City lately, most of it about the deteriorating infrastructure in the more-than-century-old system. Extensive re-routings, rush-hour…
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As I have related in FNY over the past year (2018), four elevated stations of the Astoria Line were closed for several months and then reopened with a radical new…
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I arrived in Little Neck on July 1, 2007, although, living in Flushing since 1993, I was quite aware of the Queens neighborhood tucked into its northeast quadrant just west…
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Fire alarms have been a feature on NYC streets since the late 1800s, and methods of marking them, first to passing horse-drawn coaches and pedestrians up to moving vehicles has…
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I was looking through a Rand McNally map of Brooklyn and parts of Queens produced in 1911 ( I bet you weren’t aware that Rand McNally was around back then)…