“Who is Cord Meyer?” I yanked the correct “question” out of my hat as the developer who renamed Newtown, at what is hoped to be the first annual “Queens Jeopardy”…
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Those of you who follow the Kevin J. Walsh facebook page know that I spent much of the year working for a publisher in Hoboken. I spent precious little time…
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The campaign headquarters of Eric Gioia, former Woodside, Queens City Councilman, can still be clearly discerned on Roosevelt Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets on the Sunnyside-Woodside border. Gioia (pronounced JOY-a) served…
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Word has recently come that the Department of Transportation intends to raze the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Long Island Rail Road at 216th Street, which has been a handy…
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Continued from Page 1 It’s become something of a series. A few years ago I set off under the Westchester Avenue El between Parkchester and Pelham Bay Park in the…
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It’s become something of a series. A few years ago I set off under the Westchester Avenue El between Parkchester and Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, and finished off…
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Brooklyn’s Smith Street, located in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, has turned into a Restaurant Row in recent years (rising rents have forced something of a pullback) but Queens’ Smith…
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There are detective stories in most building names. The Kindred Building on 31st Street is likely named for U.S. Rep. John J. Kindred (1864-1937), a Virginia native who moved to Queens…
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There haven’t been any putsches at this beer hall of late, and neither have there been any rhapsodies unless you count the light rock soundtrack at the Bohemian Hall, 29-19…
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Continuing my recent spate of stories about what the streets underneath elevated lines look like (Livonia Avenue, New Utrecht Avenue) I decided to head to an area I have appreciated…
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Engine #260 idles at the Shea Stadium platform on a 1999 fantrip. The EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors, Electro-Motive…
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In 1901, Auburndale, the neighborhood just east of Flushing, Queens, was empty farmland. Enter the New England Development & Improvement Co., which bought the 90-acre Thomas Willets farm, and lo and…