Queens

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent ALONG the Jackie Robinson Parkway where the Queens-Brooklyn border runs atop the glacial terminal moraine are a set of cemeteries straddling that line, each with…

SINCE Forgotten New York seems to have wandered into several blind alleys this week, I may as well go with the flow and talk about another one. On the undefended…

In September 2024 I walked Crescent Street in Long Island City almost its entire length and then headed east to 31st Street to get the N train at the end…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the fall of 2024, a new road and waterfront park opened in Long Island City, taking its name from the neighborhood’s industrial past. With…

I have shown the exterior of the Van Der Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues on the undefended Brooklyn and Queens boundary a number of times on FNY, so…

EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…

THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent SINCE the turn of the millennium, the city’s bridges have been subject to road diets, in which space was dedicated for bikes and pedestrians,…

I recently wandered north on Crescent Street in Queens all the way from Hunters Point to Ditmars. I had already done a short Crescent Street page back in 2011, but…

HERE’S a shot from the descending staircase at 31st Street and Astoria Boulevard at the elevated train serving the N and sometimes W. The elevated was built and opened in…

A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…