Often, paving bricks offer a window into the past. I was on 64th Street in the Ridgewood Gardens area in northern Maspeth a couple of years ago when I spotted…
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ForgottenFan Ed Wendell alerted me that there were some classic white-and-blue Queens signs turning up in Richmond Hill, relics of the on-location shooting for Men In Black 3, part of…
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The streets of Astoria, Queens — especially the ones that run north-south– have been through three regimes of street naming. After they were laid out in the 1800s, they were…
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At 52nd Avenue and 108th, at the Lemon Ice King in Corona, 2005. Needless to say, not there anymore. 7/7/13
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College Point has always been a rubber town. The village in northwest Queens, still very much isolated by the Whitestone Expressway and the old Flushing Airport grounds, was founded by…
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In March, while scouting the upcoming July 13th ForgottenTour in Flushing Meadows, it might as well have been Kadath in the Cold Waste, as we tracked the vast windswept wilderness…
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ForgottenTour #68 continued a recent run of pleasant weather (21 of the past 22 tours have been in at least partial sunshine). Meeting at Corona Plaza, 103rd Street and Roosevelt…
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“Van Nostrand” was formerly a big name in Little Neck — the Little Neck Theater at Northern Boulevard and 254th Street, ankd the still-standing house in back of it on…
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I have featured this classic Carvel shop on Metropolitan Avenue near Forest at the Ridgewood-Maspeth border — when plodding around this part of town, I always come in here for…
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If you have been reading FNY for awhile you know I’m fascinated with the patterns produced by Queens’ occasionally wacko street numbering system (and I also speculate what it would…
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Much of Maspeth in southwest Queens sits on a high hill, some of which (not in this particular view) was named the Ridgewood Plateau by real estate developers (an apartment…
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Though it has been over century since it was known as Shell Road, an ancient east-west Queens thoroughfare connecting the banks of Newtown Creek with downtown Elmhurst remains largely intact.…