Man, what a fuss has been made this summer (2014) about a recently uncovered store awning sign for the Hudes Delicatessen sign on Broadway and 103rd in the Upper West…
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New York City, at one time or another, has had three settlements named Richmond Hill. The one in Manhattan, in what is now the west Village, and the one in…
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Since New York City has so few alleys, I tend to be fascinated by them when encountering one. Even better is an alley that has some notable history attached to…
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In 2006, I wrote: A road runs from the East River to the tip of the North Fork of Long Island, running through Long Island City, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Auburndale,…
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BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember video stores, record shops, beeper outlets, shoe repair shops and ice cream/ fountain soda stands? These types of businesses once were ubiquitous in…
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Designed by Philip Johnson, the NY State Pavilion was among the most striking buildings in a Fair full of them. It consists of the “Tent of Tomorrow” consisting of 16…
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Simonson Funeral Home , facing south on Lefferts Boulevard at Jamaica Avenue. Simonson has become part of Fox Funeral Home and now operates at Metropolitan and Ascan Avenues in Forest…
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A little bit of road pavement from the past was revealed in Little Neck as 40th Avenue was scraped, or “milled” as the Department of Transportation puts it, in preparation…
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The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade, instituted in 1927, has grown to become the nation’s largest, and in any year you can usually find NYC’s contingent of Congressmen, the NYS…
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A couple of relics on 70th Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills… Now that the city will stop installing new “Curb Your Dog” signs and will presumably be removing…
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The Clearview Expressway runs from the Throgs Neck Bridge south, terminating at Hillside Avenue (unusual for an expressway to terminate at a local-access thoroughfare). It was first proposed in 1955…
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I thought I was done with Walnut Street in Forest Hills. I really thought I was. A few months ago [February 2014] I devoted a page to this one-block street…