On July 5, 2024 I felt like getting in a boat, as July has been especially hot and humid this year even by recent standards. As I am chained to…
Queens
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I have long had a fascination with the land borders of New York City. I have traveled much of the “undefended” Queens-Nassau border, and did a multipart series in 2011.…
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I have always held a fascination for Myrtle Avenue that goes all the way back to 1965. That’s the year my mother and I set off on foot for several…
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FORT Tilden, on the western edge of the Rockaway peninsula, was conceived when the USA entered World War I in 1917 as a coastal artillery protector with cannons as long-ranged…
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ALMOST unnoticeable, a bust of social reformer Jacob Riis can be found at the pavilion on the boardwalk in his namesake park on the Rockaway peninsula near the Marine Parkway…
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HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…
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IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…
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In the running for the most attractive building on Metropolitan Avenue‘s 14-mile length from Williamsburg to Jamaica is the Hess-Miller Funeral Home at 65th Street. Its location is no coincidence,…
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REX Cole (1887-1967) was originally a lamp manufacturer, then became associated with General Electric in the 1920s and designed white enamel Monitor Top refrigerators. Famed architect Raymond Hood designed a series…
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I was amazed to see this pair of vintage General Electric M400 lamps, on a Twin post in the parking lot of the GW Supermarket in Northern Boulevard just east…
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MOST likely a testament to my being out of action for several months from mid 2022-late 2023, I had not encountered this genre of signage designed to point out highlights…
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Continued from Part One WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One…