I recently became aware of a former firehouse in Corona, a handsome yellow brick building on the north side of 32nd Avenue between 102nd and 103rd Streets. I haven’t had…
Queens
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Today I once again wind the clock back into the past with a look at my newly acquired Hagstrom Queens map from 1922. The border of Brooklyn and Queens is…
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Tucked away in tony Douglaston are a few buildings that go back to the colonial and postcolonial era. One of these is the Greek Revival Allen-Beville House at 236-12 Center…
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Maspeth isn’t a location many associate with DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), a founding father who served as NY State Assemblyman, NYS Senator, NYS Governor, US Senator and NYC Mayor during an…
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In 1939 Robert Moses arched the imposing Kosciuszko Bridge, named for a Polish compatriot of the American Revolution, over the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek. Although The Special K originally boasted…
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Greenpoint Avenue has about as much mileage in Queens as it does in Brooklyn. We’re on the border of Blissville, a small wedge of Queens positioned between Newtown Creek, Calvary…
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In December 2016 I played Queens Jeopardy at Neir’s Tavern at 78th Street and 88th Avenue in Woodhaven, a neighborhood that I’m quickly finding is one of the best preserved…
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“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…