Queens

Today’s post unites the neighborhods of Far Rockaway, Queens, and Bushwick, Brooklyn, where you will find a pair of the oldest variety of one-way signs remaining in New York City.…

I haven’t done a whole lot on NYC Parks Department signage — park name signs are usually in brown with the leaf symbol Parks uses as well as lettering in…

The IRT Flushing Line opened in stages between 1915 and 1928. The stations between Grand Central and Vernon-Jackson opened in 1915. Meanwhile, in Queens, the Hunters Point and Court House Square…

After covering northwest Queens in Part One, I’ll move on to northeast and central Queens in Part 2. After 35 years as a Brooklynite, more specifically a Bay Ridger, a…

This pair of signs pointing to two bridges can be found mounted on a telephone pole at northbound Junction Boulevard and 46th Avenue. In the mid-20th Century, these signs were…

There they stand on the Flushing Bay Promenade just north of Citifield… two odd fiberglass rain shelters that appear to me resembling the Vampire Squid, which has webbing between its…

I always try to feature Volkswagen Buses when I encounter them. Joe DeMarco found this wonderfully restored specimen on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona. VW buses, under their original design, came…

This rather plain, prosaic 8-sided park lamppost is somewhat ubiquitous in some parks. It was introduced as a complement, or substitute, to the shorter Type B Henry Bacon lamp, introduced…

It’s not often that I repeat a tour just a few months after giving it originally, but there was a good chance repeating the World’s Fair Remnants tour from July…

Queens is so vast that I have already decided that it’s going to take at least two parts to get through it, and I may need even three. It has…

47th Avenue and 109th Street, 3 PM 4/12/14

This magnificent deli awning sign from the mid-20th Century, Broadway and 48th Street, spotted on a ForgottenTour in 2010, has since been “modernized” and is not nearly so special. 4/10/14