Queens

The streets of Long Island City, Ridgewood and to a lesser degree, Woodside, are lined with blond bricked Mathews Model Flats, each unit produced for $8000 in 1915 by Gustave…

Still called the Paragon Building, bu later a warehouse and now residences at Hunters Point Avenue and 21st Street just west of Skillman Avenue’s western end,  this compact brick building…

I have rarely visited southeast Queens. The truth is, I was there a lot more when I lived in Bay Ridge, since I could bicycle almost directly east and wind…

Just to get it out of the way, there’s no organization called “Hike New York”, but there are 44 pairs of 24″ diameter signs placed along designated routes in Astoria,…

This illuminated sign that appears at 43rd Avenue and 36th Street in Sunnyside seems to be advertising a now-departed business. There are various CRECOs worldwide: equipment rental, light manufacturing, concrete…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent As you know, every borough in NYC has its own Broadway and a Main Street. When it comes to Park Avenue, the one in…

A pair of lampposts at Seneca Avenue and Palmetto Street have masts that take unusual twists to get around the elevated train girders that support the M train, on the…

General George E. Lawrence Square (actually a Triangle), defined by Parsons Boulevard, Elm Avenue and 147th Street along 45th Avenue, can be found across the street from Flushing Hospital. It…

Besides the mini, I notice: the old RKO Keith’s neon sign; the Bus Stop sign with a picture of a GM Fishbowl; two old-style bus route map signs; a police…

BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Willett family plot is the only remaining reminder of Spring Hill, a vast estate that became a cemetery in 1893. The plot is…

For me, it’s one of NYC’s more abiding mysteries. For about twenty years, the online maps I’ve consulted have named a little dead end at Maple Avenue and Frame Place…

Here’s a view of the Long Island Rail Road tracks from the elevated Flushing Main Street station looking east in 2009. Note the pair of Caldor signs: the company had…