Queens

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Like any big city, New York is located at the juncture of major interstate highways and their auxiliary routes. For example, I-95 has the Long…

Queens’ Sunnyside Yards were competed in 1910, at the same time as Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and the four tunnels that at long last brought Long Island Rail Road trains…

Have I ever mentioned that I got a B in a college math class? It was a proud B, since it was one of a handful of A’s and B’s…

In a neighborhood that has its share of historic structures (some of which, like the Grand Avenue “wheelwright house” have been razed in recent years), this lamppost is Maspeth’s only…

Of the many bridges that cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek, which includes the Pulaski (McGuiness Boulevard), J.J. Byrne (Greenpoint Avenue) Kosciuszko (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Metropolitan Avenue bridge, and…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Astoria…Ditmars Boulevard…the subway roll signs on the R train advertised these outlandish, far-off locales when I boarded it in Bay Ridge when I lived there for…

There are a pair of unusually-named streets on the southern edge of Far Rockaway: Seagirt Boulevard, the more important of the two, a 6-lane behemoth with a center divider that…

Astoria…Ditmars Boulevard…the subway roll signs on the R train advertised these outlandish, far-off locales when I boarded it in Bay Ridge when I lived there for the better part of…

What would become Woodside, a bustling community centered at Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street where the #7 Flushing Line and the Long Island Rail Road come together, was originally a part…

Continued from Part 1 Before I was rudely interrupted by a WordPress malfunction last Monday, I was making my way northeast on Baisley Boulevard from Baisley Pond Park and had…

Two otherwise unconnected women whose names are separated by a single letter are remembered on street signs in Woodside, Queens and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. In 1995 the corner of 31st…

Heavy iron T-shaped directional signs were once standard issue on New York City’s parkways. Originally the signs were white with black lettering and illuminated by attached incandescent bulbs. Today the…