The Roosevelt Island tram, which runs between the island and 2nd Avenue and East 60th Street, is easily the best 4-minute ride in town. New York City’s only tramway was constructed…
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Elmhurst has more alleys than you might think, and some didn’t start out as alleys, like Claremont Terrace, a dirt road off Dongan Avenue, all that is left of the…
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Chevy Chase Street runs through the semi-ritzy Jamaica Estates neighborhood in eastern Queens between Union Turnpike and the Grand Central Parkway. Needless to say, it was named a few decades…
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It’s time for FNY’s peripatetic MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville to take us on a merry chase showing the signs he has seen while tooling around town,…
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At one time, Eagle Electric was a manufacturing giant in the Hunters Point area, with several plants scattered in the neighborhood’s complicated street grid. In the early 1980s I was…
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During the ForgottenTour on September 21, 2013, I discussed the Mary Sendek House at Queens Boulevard, which forced Macy’s to build a “notch” in their Moderne circular building. I was…
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After a several-decade obsession with bland functionality, the Metropolitan Transit Authority began getting more creative with subway platform lighting in the 1990s. Included in that rubric is the refurbishing, or…
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One of these years I’ll win a trivia contest and, as the grand prize, get as long as I want to run around the Department of Transportation Street Light Yard…
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On yet another brilliantly sunny day (that did start out cloudy and drizzly) 20 ForgottenFans assembled at the 1st Presbyterian Church of Newtown as church publicist Marge Milliken recounted church…
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Three creatures guard a doorway on 35th Street near Astoria Boulevard in Queens. Gargoyles and fanciful monsters of all shapes and sizes adorned not only architecture, but such varied objects…
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I’ll have more on this park at a future date, and while I’ll continue to decry the “giant sucking sound” taking all the jobs away from the waterfront as NYC…
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Riding on the #7 train I always stake out a position near the door on the left side of the train. On the #7, that’s an ideal spot if you’re…