In the colonial era, mile markers were often placed along the main road to inform the traveler of how many miles there were to go to the nearest big town,…
Queens
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City Councilmembers Peter Vallone (speaking) and Elizabeth Crowley (red coat, to his left) oppose the move of Triumph of Civic Virtue to Brooklyn A number of Queens elected officials, including…
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Continuing a recent concentration on Hunters Point that I have been indulging, in the spring of 2011 I was idling in the southern end of the neighborhood near Newtown Creek…
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In the early 20th Century, Queens featured hundreds of striped poles featuring directional signs to different neighborhoods and even out-of-borough locations. This one, photographed in 1931, pointed to Flushing, Brooklyn,…
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A better picture would be of a LIRR passenger train crossing these tracks, but I settled for a couple of work trains (actually two trucks mounted on the tracks and…
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I have spent much time in Hunters Point, Queens, of late — it’s been adequately covered in FNY and there was a ForgottenTour there in 2011, but I frequently return,…
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Bayside Avenue in Queens is nowhere near Bayside, the neighborhood. Instead it runs between Union Street and the intersection of 154th Street and 29th Avenue in Flushing. In what is…
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Where quality comes first, Springfield and Linden Boulevards
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The H train has made a return to the Rockaway peninsula, though hardly a triumphant one. In October 2012, when “Superstorm” Sandy effectively trashed the bridge that connects the A…
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Jamaica Avenue in 1977 during demolition of the Jamaica El. The train was rerouted in a subway under Archer Avenue in 1988; in true MTA fashion, the replacement line arrived…
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Ancient Queens street sign from the FNY Archives
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This pedestrian bridge takes parkgoers between Flushing Meadows Corona Park and the Queens Botanical Garden over College Point Boulevard near Booth Memorial Avenue. The inscription, which appears on both sides…