Queens

Here’s a look at Union Turnpike looking east from 233rd Street in Hollis Hills in 1932. Besides the work of intrepid photographers and chroniclers Percy Loomis Sperr and Eugene Armbruster…

In 1999 I was walking on the north side of Union Turnpike where it splits in two and becomes the service road for the Interborough (Jackie Robinson) Parkway and then…

I intend to do at least one FNY post every day this month, which I don’t think I’ve done for a couple of years. My task has been made easier…

In 1999 I was taking a bike ride in Bayside, on the Cross Island Parkway service road a little west of the Clearview Expressway when I spotted three of four “Woodie”…

I really wish the old man had gotten a photo of the World’s Fair 1964-1965 monorail with some actual cars in the picture, but I’m working with what I have…

I’m going to have some fun for awhile displaying the results I got sifting through piles of snapshots I got between 1998 and 2005 when I was still using 35MM…

A Forgotten Fan sent me a very interesting watercolor depicting both subway cars and LIRR cars on the elevated Long Island Rail Road trestle at Northern Blvd. and 162nd Street in…

This is my initial FNY post on the neighborhood of Somerville, which is on the Rockaway peninsula north of Arverne By the Sea and the A train tracks. I’ve never…

Shore Front Parkway, running from Beach 109th to Beach 73rd Streets in Rockaway Park and Hammels, is a seeming “parkway to nowhere”as it allows people coming in from Cross Bay Bridge…

Court Square is the only station in the system (as far as I know) that uses a horizontal escalator, or people mover, more commonly seen in airports, along its lengthy transfer…

221st Street is a fairly busy route in Bayside. Since it’s bridged over the Long Island Rail Road — one of the few crossings over the railroad in Bayside —…

Four roads converge at Astoria Square on the eastern edge of old Astoria Village, first established by fur merchant Stephen Ailing Halsey in 1839, who laid out streets and built…