Queens

I have lived in Little Neck, Queens since July 1st, 2007, following 14 years in Flushing. I spent 35 years in Brooklyn to begin with, so in 2029 I’ll have…

It’s a shame we can’t jump into an H.G. Wells-style time machine and motor backward or forward to a time of our choosing, but the laws of physics insist that…

Just a quick one this Christmas week. On December 10, 2017, ForgottenFan Mary Beth and I went on the Flushing Holiday House tour, which had been going on for thirty…

My friend Heather Quinlan, who created If These Knishes Could Talk, an examination of the famed New York City accent, is here in front of the riotously Art Deco entrance…

Continued from Part 3 Time for another entry in Puzzlements, Forgotten New York’s examination of noncontextual street names, especially named streets smack in the middle of areas featuring numbered or lettered…

Parking lots around town sometimes feature ancient streetlamps that were never part of the streetlighting mix employed by the Department of Traffic, later Department of Transportation in NYC, such as…

Amazingly, though Flushing can claim two buildings from the 17th century (Manhattan has none), 18th Century buildings are few and far between! The Kingsland Homestead has been located in three…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the city’s pursuit of a perfect rectilinear street grid, topography was not an obstacle. As the city expanded northward, roads in upper Manhattan…

Tonsor Street runs from Metropolitan Avenue at Andrews Avenue three blocks southeast to Greene Avenue in Ridgewood. Toward its north end it makes a dramatic curve on a hill, permitting a view…

Just a quickie on this Thanksgiving Day. Here’s an unusual partnership in Bayside — there are usually separate poles for street signs and stop signs, even though stop signs are…

Pictured here, at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street, my former address in eastern Flushing, are new and old methods of indicating a fire alarm is nearby. On the bottom is…

This rather nondescript factory building at Jamaica Avenue and 184th Place in Hollis produced the stuff that kids’ dreams were made of for Ideal Toys for several decades from the…