At least two corners at Woodside Avenue and 69th Street, near the entrance/exit of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, used to have one or two “arrowhead” directional signs. Almost invariably, arrowheads or…
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A rare General Electric Form 109 lamp, quite unusual in NYC, sits on property currently being redeveloped on Springfield Boulevard and 136th Avenue. Never used extensively in NYC, these lamps…
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A pair of wonderfully colored handpainted building ads on Springfield Boulevard and 111th Road in a part of town I’m not in all that much, across the road from a…
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Upscale pizza joint Milkflower opened on 34-12 31st Avenue in Astoria in 2013. I haven’t been in yet (my favorite pizza in Astoria remains Sac’s on Broadway) but I was…
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Flushing’s history in the colonial era was closely intertwined with plants. William Prince established a commercial plant farm, or nursery, in western Flushing in 1737 along Flushing Bay. He first limited…
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Before I begin, I’ll get this out of the way right away, since Forgotten NY’s nitpickers are legion. No, nothing on this page is technically a tunnel, but they’re reasonable…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The historic structure was erected in 1869 as the civic center for all villages within the Town of Jamaica. Any Queens neighborhood today that…
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Douglaston Hills is a small wedge of territory between Douglaston proper and Little Neck, defined by Douglaston Parkway, the Long Island Rail Road tracks, Northern Boulevard and Udall’s Cove Park.…
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The stolid brick Neptune Meter Works Building on Jackson Avenue and Crane Street stood from 1910 until today, October 9, 2014; it had been razed to make way for a…
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As you can see in the title card, there’s a twin, or double-masted, hexagonal pole on 37th Avenue west of 114th Street, illuminating the sidewalk at Hinton Park, which extends…
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The two “northeasternmost” of Queens’ neighborhoods, Douglaston and Little Neck, somehow seem carved out of the rather exclusive, definitely monied precincts of the Nassau County towns immediately to the east,…
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During the spring I was making my way down Newtown Avenue in Astoria (which isn’t the same as Newtown Road, but actually is, as the two roads actually made up…