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…
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Unfortunately my copy of the Dripps 1852 Queens map does not run all the way to the East River; however, it does show quite a bit of what eventually became…
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Maspeth, in a western corner of Queens east of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn and west of Middle Village, seems stuck between the grit of Brooklyn and the airy, almost suburban feel…
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I’m fascinated with a Dripps atlas of Queens made in 1852 I stumbled on awhile ago, as I am with most old maps. At that remote time Millard Fillmore was…
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Many years ago, when Queens was a collection of small towns divided by acres of farms and fields, every town and city had its own street naming and numbering system. This…
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During a recent stroll from Flushing to Jamaica down Parsons Boulevard, I was surprised to see this painted-on-bricks ad on the southwest corner of Parsons and Hillside Avenue had reappeared.…