In June 2012, on a weekday afternoon (I was, and at this writing am, still paying the penance for years of unpreparedness for the modern world by being unemployed) I…
Queens
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Niederstein’s, the beloved German restaurant founded on Metropolitan Avenue near All-Faiths (Lutheran) Cemetery in the 1850s and razed for an Arby’s Roast Beef a few years ago, lives on as…
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I have always been fascinated by streets that dramatically change character from one end to the other, as well as change their level of traffic. There are a number of…
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162nd Street runs north-south in Queens, a bit here, a bit there, from the Whitestone enclave called Beechhurst south to Jamaica (oddly it never gets south of there, even though…
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The Department of Transportation has come up with an unusual arrangement in downtown College Point in NW Queens. For the former WALK/DONT WALK signs, now represented by a red hand…
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The old New York Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which has been allowed to rust and fall apart for 47 years, reminds me of the various Time Machine movies in…
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The Frost Pharamcy sign on 55th Avenue and Queens Boulevard is without a doubt one of my favorites in Queens. It’s likely a snapshot from the Fab Forties or Nifty…
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Other than Little Neck, the Queens neighborhood in which I spend the most time is unquestionably Astoria, where I sit on the board of the Greater Astoria Historical Society and,…
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Besides pawing with ever-increasing futility amongst the dregs of the online listings and interviewing with firms located for me by an agency, with briefly elevated and later inevitably dashed hopes,…
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After spending my first 35 years in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, I moved to Queens in 1993, in that gray area on the borders of Flushing, Auburndale and Fresh Meadows. My…
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I was meandering around the section of Flushing in which the streets are named for plants in alphabetical order from A to R. On Quince Avenue I found this compelling…
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Old school Carvel with revolving ice cream cones, Metropolitan Avenue near Fresh Pond Road. C.P. The Celestial Person: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCzvMsIztCM I once got the old man an ice cream cake for…