Astoria’s architecture is anything but boring. You never know what you will run into on its side streets, from townhouses, ons-story single family homes, huge apartment buildings, Art Deco churches.…
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I was reminded of Astoria’s past when making my way up 32nd Street during the week. A pair of apartment buildings at 31-15 and 31-19, between 3rd Avenue and Broadway,…
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I have been bicycling in earnest again since mid-2017, though I take a few months off during the cold months since I don’t like battling headwinds. I still stick to…
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Pembroke Avenue runs for two blocks in Little Neck in Queens, from Little Neck Parkway east to Glenwood Street just south of Northern Boulevard, whereupon it plunges further east into University…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to parks that are less than an acre in size, such spaces are usually designated as squares, triangles, malls, gores, and…
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The casual visitor to Sunnyside might assume that Lowery’s Wine Factory on Queens Boulevard between 40th and 41st Street was named for the original owner. Never assume anything in Queens;…
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On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR station in Woodside and…
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I couldn’t get to everything on last week’s World’s Fair Remnants tour, so here’s one item we overlooked. Located on a rather out-of-the-way path between the Hall of Science and…
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Until the 1910s and ’20s Ridgewood was suburban and nearly rural in some spots, with farms and sprawling country homes, but developers Paul Stier and Gustave X. Mathews made marks…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the southeastern corner of the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a set of mounds with footstones citing biblical verses under the…
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I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…
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Major Thomas Wickes, a patriot originally from Huntington, owned the entire Douglaston peninsula jutting into Little Neck Bay after the Revolutionary War, and subsequently sold it to Wynant Van Zandt…