Queens

I have been paying more attention to the shingle signs that are found outside doctors’ offices, because some of them are old indeed and have been in place for a…

ASTORIA Village has suffered greatly from building speculators with large sums of cash in hand. Numerous important houses have been demolished, only to be replaced with large, boxy multi-family dwellings. The…

I was tipped off about a couple of items of interest in Forest Hills, so I thought I would take the R train over there. Because I was out of…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the A train heading south, the tracks split into two branches, east to Far Rockaway, and west to Rockaway Park. Connecting this split is…

As many who look at Forgotten NY know, I’m a streetlamp fanatic and have been since at least 1962 at age five, when I woke up one morning to find…

TIRED of the unrelenting dead canine humidity of NYC summer? It’s humid and getting humider, year after year. Here’s a winter 2021 view of Station Road along the Long Island…

YOU just don’t see beautifully curved glass like this on store windows anymore, and handlettered signs like this are rare too. Squint and you can see the house numbered rendered…

THIS is how Hagstrom Maps, founded in 1916 as a photo reproduction and retouching house that began selling maps a few years later, depicted the Bellerose section of eastern Queens…

HERE’S a relic you can find at the 71st Avenue express station serving E, F, R and M trains on the Queens Boulevard IND. On the center pillars, you can…

THIS painted ad for Kaufman Office Stores on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway is considerably faded, but still recognizable, from when I first spotted it at the Dawn of Forgotten…

I have never lived in Sunnyside Gardens, but I always enjoy walking around in it. I had my eye on the place ever since arriving in Queens in 1993! The…

CRAZED from the unrelenting July heat and humidity, I was scuttling east on the Long Island Expressway south service road recently when I spotted the anomaly seen above. It’s a…