I have always been fascinated by street remnants, such as a small piece of Avenue Y in Bensonhurst here, or a bit of Linden Boulevard over there in Ozone Park. In…
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I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…
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In the 1940s or 1950s, the Department of Traffic (now Transportation) installed hundreds of “arrowhead” signs all over town, pointing to bridges and tunnels. They took the shape of arrowheads,…
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I am feeling a little wearied from composing multipart Sunday pages, so I think I’ll reach back into my mixed bag of tricks. I haven’t done one of these tutti…
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A little late with a post today, so i’ll revisit one of the stranger aspects of Queens’ conversion to numbered streets beginning in 1915: when the numbers are the same. …
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Jessie Court is a dead-end on Northern Boulevard on the north side of the street where it meets Browvale Lane, squeezed between a real estate office and a bank. It’s…
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Here’s a variety of lamp in NYC getting increasingly rarer. Unfortunately I have no info on the brand, but these began appearing on underpasses in the 1970s when yellow sodium…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Memorial Day in mind, it is easy to think of it as the unofficial start of summer rather of its origins as a…
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During my walk down Union Turnpike between Little Neck Parkway and 164th Street, with some detours to the Motor Parkway (chronicled on this FNY page) of course I also took…
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In spring 2017 I took a couple of walks in the wide open spaces of eastern Queens, one on Union Turnpike going generally west skirting Glen Oaks, Hollis Hills and…
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While I still have yet to walk the route of the old Long Island Rail Road Whitestone branch (recently, anyway) I’ve been doing some surveys using Google Earth and found…
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Riders on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch (as I have been since 1992) are quite familiar with the Flushing Main Street station. But there’s something unusual about…