One weekday there was a slight break from the blazing heat of July 2015 (as it turned out August and September were even more blazing) and I decided to walk…
Queens
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For the first time in about 12 years I was called in for jury duty last week (October 2015). In the past, I’ve had to go to the Queens County…
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ForgottenFans gather in view of Little Neck Bay for ForgottenTour #98, September 13, 2015 to take a look at some of the northeast Queens neighborhood’s relatively unknown aspects. The…
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When I last did a general walkabout in Woodhaven, it was all the way back in 2007, so there’s a little catching up to do. One of the more successful…
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Excuse the presence of the chain link fence in this shot, but the only way to shoot this increasingly-rare bracketed double Deskey still hanging in there on the Grand Central…
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A legacy of the M train’s brown identification “bullet” can be found at an Amtrak underpass at 32nd Avenue and 56th Street in Woodside where, incidentally, no “subway” except the…
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Continued from Part 1 I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October 2015, when its intrinsic oderifousness is tamped down just a little. My idea…
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Some interesting stuff going on in this Google Street View picture of Jamaica Avenue and 110th Street in Richmond Hill from 2011: There’s that white and blue 110th Street sign,…
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Downtown Flushing is noisy, overcrowded, and smells horrible. That’s why, naturally, I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October, when the oderifousness is tamped down…
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There’s a short angled driveway on the north side of 32nd Avenue in an industrial end of  Flushing trailing off east of Downing Street. I have had it in the…
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According to the New York Times, the name “Hollis” comes via Frederick W. Dunton, the first developer of the area, which was once known as East Jamaica. He was a native…
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PART 1Â |Â PART 2Â |Â PART 3Â |Â PART 4Â | Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a…