I have found some slides of eastern Queens scenes circa 1960 or so, the dawn of the modern age in Queens. This is a cluster of attached houses on 103rd…
Queens
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One day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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This is one of a pair of painted ads that appear on a brick building off Vernon Boulevard between 45th Road and 46th Avenue; this is the one on 46th.…
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Though Fort Totten, the former military base at Willets Point in Bayside, has been in my “back yard” so to speak ever since 1993, when I moved to Flushing, and…
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There are a lot of interesting items from a Forgotten NY aspect scuffling around under the Jamaica Avenue el on Woodhaven, such as outmoded street lighting, hidden cemeteries a block…
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Original specimens of the Type 24M cast-iron lamppost, what Jeff’s Streetlight Site‘s Jeff Saltzman (he abdicated his crown of King of NYC Lampposts to Bob Mulero after he moved to…
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When I first started Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of small slotted mailboxes, mounted on telephone poles or on their own pebbled concrete posts. Every one…
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Though the Long Island Rail Road “Montauk Branch” between Long Island City and Jamaica has not played host to regular passenger service for about a decade, and several stations along…
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Forest Hills Gardens, a ritzy community on the south side of the LIRR main line tracks roughly between Continental Avenue, Union Turnpike, the LIRR and Greenway South, was one of…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent I’ve never climbed Everest, or Denali, but locally I can brag about scaling Mount Marcy, the state’s highest point; Todt Hill on Staten Island…
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I was feeling pretty good in November 2011. After an arduous process, Forgotten NY had been moved over to a WordPress platform, though the initial phase was botched by the…
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I have written about Weeks Lane before. It meanders through the modern grid on the Fresh Meadows-Bayside border northeast from Hollis Court Boulevard and 53rd Avenue northeast to 47th Avenue…