AFTER 25 years of Forgotten New York…official on March 26th…I’ve begun to take note of IND signage from the 1930s. Not the large identification tablets seen on the station platforms,…
Rego Park
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WOODHAVEN Boulevard is but a mere local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which runs express between Rooosevelt and Continental Avenues, but were it built today instead of the…
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WITH proponents of the so-called QueensLink, a proposed rail line revival that would link subways or LIRR lines in Rego Park to a subway in Woodhaven, rallying once more at…
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ONE of the more intriguing areas in Queens, at least from a street layout perspective, is the area known colloquially as “The Crescents” in Rego Park, in which the familiar…
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I am old. Impossibly old. Older than you imagine. Older than you can imagine. And I have returned to work fulltime, with Marquis Who’s Who, albeit via my home computer.…
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Several New York City neighborhoods come together in the triangle of territory opposite St. John’s Cemetery formed by Cooper Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Woodhaven Boulevard. I have to pick one,…
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I have found myself in a number of Queens cemeteries this year. Earlier in the year (2019) when the NY Post did an article on Forgotten NY’s 20th anniversary) I…
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I’ve always thought that New York City should maximize its transit options. There are still miles upon miles of (mostly) intact railroad right-of-way that could be restored to revenue-based transit…
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One constant in the Coney Island scene at Surf and Stillwell Avenues since 1916 has been Nathan’s Famous, Charles Feltman was the purported inventor of the hot dog (it was…
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Lost Battalion Hall and Lost Battalion Park, between Queens and Junction Boulevards just south of the Horace Harding (Long Island) Expressway and wedged between the Queens Center and Rego Center…
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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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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor The Borough of Queens was once a patchwork collection of villages divided among the major towns of Flushing, Jamaica, Newtown, Far Rockaway, and Long Island…