While stumbling around Woodside and avoiding the ice patches on the sidewalks that Queens property owners refused to clean, I arrived at a cluster of familiar-looking apartment houses on either…
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104-11 39th Avenue in Corona is one of a pair of Italianate-style houses just east of the Queens Library Corona branch building located on 39th Avenue a block north of the…
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From the NYC Municipal Archives (which has helpfully watermarked the photo by way of encouragement for you to buy the photo at their website without such obstruction) is this look…
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Horace Harding Boulevard was initially developed as a through route from Elmhurst to Nassau County as Nassau Boulevard in the 1930s, and was later named for a financier and friend of NYC…
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by SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to African American history on the city’s map, the 2013 designation of South Road in Jamaica as Tuskegee Airmen Way was…
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The following first appeared in Huffington Post on 11/21/2009. The “Huff Post” does not pay contributors, so I didn’t stick around very long. I lived on the outskirts of the…
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Though innumerable glass towers are now going up in Queens Plaza and Hunters Point, one of the most notable buildings in western Queens turns 110 years old this year. The…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…