There’s just a bit of bad news in Richmond Hill, where two panels of the historic Bangert’s Florists sign have been removed — so I noticed during a Richmond Hill…
Richmond Hill
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At Corbitt’s Wines & Liquors, 118-04 Jamaica Avenue opposite the old Triangle Hotel where Myrtle Avenue ceases its unrelenting march eastward from downtown Brooklyn, it could be 2006, 1996, 1986,…
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I was staggering down 91st Avenue in what was western Richmond Hill or eastern Woodhaven just past the old Long Island Rail Road Rockaway branch overpass that some wish to…
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104-29 Jamaica Avenue is a long way from Austin Street, but there’s a reason for the name on this worn sign under the Jamaica elevated. In 1954, Bernard Titowsky opened a…
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It’s unusual to see stoplights mounted like this in New York City, where they’re usually found on large, thick guy-wired stanchions (as they have since the early 1950s). This unusual…
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Richmond Hill’s public library was built in 1905 by the architectural firm Tuthill and Higgins with a grant from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on land donated by Albon Man, the original…
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It could be the end of the line for the Cameo Pet Shop, a venerable Richmond Hill institution at Jamaica Avenue and 116th Street, as well as its venerable handpainted…
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The view of the concrete Richmond Hill trestle from Hillside Avenue lets us see one of the Long Island Rail Road’s more intriguing relics: the Keystone. The LIRR was run…
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Some interesting stuff going on in this Google Street View picture of Jamaica Avenue and 110th Street in Richmond Hill from 2011: There’s that white and blue 110th Street sign,…
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Almost as long as there’s been a Richmond Hill, the Triangle Hotel building (seen here in 2006) has marked the triangle where Myrtle Avenue meets Jamaica Avenue. It was built by…
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When traveling the rails you will occasionally see signal stanchions like this one, with lights arranged on a circular metal background. These railroad signals were developed by the Pennsylvania railroad…
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Bangert’s Flowers, on 86-08 117th Street in Richmond Hill just west of Myrtle Avenue, started out as Fluhr’s in 1894 and was sold to the Bangert family in 1927. It boasts…