When I first moved to Flushing in 1993 I marveled at a pair of very high towers visible looking toward the southern horizon from 43rd Avenue and 162nd Street. They…
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Here’s a photo of the east end of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, where it meets Northern Boulevard at 155th Street and a shopping mall. For a number of reasons, I…
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I had forgotten about the presence of the North Hills Branch of Queens Library on Marathon Parkway just south of the Long Island Expressway, constructed in 1987, but I marvel…
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I was lurching around Woodhaven recently, and as part of my immersive Forgotten New York experience, I check the bases of lampposts to see when they were installed. Most of…
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A short road zig zags in Jamaica Hills between Parson Boulevard and 162nd Street in Jamaica Hills, a few blocks north of the main drag, Hillside Avenue. It’s a pleasant…
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Time to do a little bit of catchup in FNY. I go out with the camera all the time, so there’s no surprise that a lot of pictures are in…
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Idling in Ridgewood the other day, I spotted this truly ancient painted ad on Seneca Avenue between Stanhope and Himrod. Other bits of the ad are visible but have mostly…
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162nd Street in Flushing, my home base between 1993 and 2007, was bookended by two ancient and hoary taverns, the Velvet Cup near Northern and Paddy Quinn’s, near Sanford. Quinn’s…
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The Westinghouse MO-8 (some say OV-8) once lit NYC streets by the hundreds or perhaps thousands from 1962 to 1972. Known as “open-bottom” or “cutoff” luminaires, they were designed to illuminate…
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The former Jamaica Savings Bank on Queens Boulevard and 56th Avenue exhibits phases, like the moon, depending on where you view it. Designed and built for Jamaica Savings Bank in…
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Woodside is, perhaps, best known by NYC commuters as a major interchange of the Long Island Rail Road — the only other station in addition to Pennsylvania Station where all major…
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A classic picture of Deep Queens here at 51st Avenue looking west from Jacobus Street, an intersection only Elmhurstians might know. It is an eastern extension of Maurice Avenue, which…