As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…
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NEW York City’s fire alarms evolved greatly over the nearly 125 years they have been street corner staples. They seem to be the one Beaux Arts designed street fixtures that…
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FOR my next “ForgottenTour Indoors” (this past week there was a well-received Zoom tour called FNY By the Seashore” in which I presented some out-of-the-way waterside communities like Dead Horse…
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FOR centuries, the constructed circle in Salisbury Plain that is Stonehenge has puzzled the public on its meaning and purpose. The culture that built it more than 5,000 years ago…
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FORGIVE me for being behind the times, but that’s nothing new. I was puttering around Forest Hills this past weekend with two quarries in mind: get a photo of Forest…
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MANY of New York’s famous artists were born elsewhere and came to this city because it offers the biggest audience and market for creative expression. Keith Haring moved from Pennsylvania…
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JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Homelawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and Union…
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YEARS beyond comprehension ago … perhaps 1998 or 1999 … I photographed this broken down street clock on the east side of Sutphin Boulevard south of Jamaica Avenue. At the…
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JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Home Lawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and…
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I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…
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No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…
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BELIEVE it or not a set of these metal “Whitestone” poles, complete with SLECO “cuplights” could be seen at the Queens side of the Roosevelt Island Bridge at Vernon Boulevard…