I have passed The Corner Deli in Woodside, 69th Street 65th Place at Laurel Hill Boulevard facing the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and opposite the James Novello Winfield War Memorial, quite a…
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LAKEVILLE ROAD is a major north-south thoroughfare in western Nassau County, part of a much longer road running from Kings Point south to Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park. North…
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TODAY, I offer a shot of an ordinary residential Queens street just south of 76th Avenue in the shadow of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where I have visited…
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FORGIVE the relatively poor angle on this shot of Whitestone Lanes, at Whitestone Expressway and Linden Place, technically in Flushing. (It actually looks better by night than by day.) I…
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TUCKED away in Bayside along Long Island Rail Road tracks at 42nd Avenue between 215th Place and 216th Street is a private cemetery originally belonging to the prominent Queens County…
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THE turn-of-the-century English Garden City movement of Sir Ebenezer Howard and Sir Raymond Unwin served as the inspiration for Sunnyside Gardens, built from 1924-1928. This housing experiment was aimed at showing civic leaders that…
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MANY of New York City’s longest and most important roads begin in inconspicuousness and humble spots. Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was…
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MANY New Yorkers cite 1993’s A Bronx Tale, written and acted in by Chazz Palminteri and produced and acted in by Robert De Niro, as their favorite movie. Though A Bronx Tale was…
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SOME years ago, Kevin Walsh visited Haight Street in Flushing, comparing the sights of this obscure two-block road in an industrial corner of the neighborhood, with the scenic Haight Street…
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DEEP in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, along a path between Dinkins Circle and the Unisphere, is NYC Parks’ equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys from TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”…
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A weakness of the Queens street numbering system devised by Charles U. Powell of the Queens Topographic Bureau in the 1910s was that in order to keep east-west and north-south…
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CLOSING out yet another year, Forgotten New York’s 25th, today I will mention Sazon Nuñez Corp. at Wyckoff and DeKalb Avenues, conveniently located at the DeKalb Avenue L train station.…