Continued from Part 1 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…
Queens
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Today’s topic in Forgotten New York may be a bit confusing at first, but bear with me. Have you ever been walking through a neighborhood in which all or the…
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I did a Forgotten NY tour in October 2017 and had to make a detour around this stop, so I’ll do it here. Paul and Rosalie Walken opened a bakery…
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It might be surprising to know that most of the world’s countries did not have exhibits at the ’64-65 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. Not because of any particular animus or…
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photo: Gary Fonville A few years ago, a sidewalk sign for Cron’s Bakery was revealed at Liberty Avenue and 121st Street in Ozone Park. This space was later occupied, in…
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Peter Chahales Park is a small triangle of green with a couple of benches, hedges and trees at 69th Street, 58th Avenue and the Queens-Midtown Expressway in Maspeth. It was…
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One Room Schoolhouse Park, Astoria Boulevard and 90th Street, sits on a .14 acre plot that was home to the schoolhouse mentioned in the park’s name, PS 10, from 1879…
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The building on the west side of Parsons Boulevard at 89th Avenue has a complicated history. It opened in 1930 as the Central Library Building of Queens Public Library (the…
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Lost Battalion Hall and Lost Battalion Park, between Queens and Junction Boulevards just south of the Horace Harding (Long Island) Expressway and wedged between the Queens Center and Rego Center…
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A green slotted post on 39th Road, next to the Little Neck station platform on the Long Island Rail Road, proclaims the parking rules on this stretch of road: “don’t…
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I got nothin’ today…or I wouldn’t except for this photo submitted by Forest Hiller Vicki Metzger (who is standing right next to one on this FNY page), showing an ordinary…
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One more entry in my Queens 1852 series, then I’ll give it a rest for awhile, though there’s still more territory to cover. I walked Queens Village, which today is…