Brooklyn’s Smith Street, located in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, has turned into a Restaurant Row in recent years (rising rents have forced something of a pullback) but Queens’ Smith…
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Continued from Part 1 Before I was rudely interrupted by a WordPress malfunction last Monday, I was making my way northeast on Baisley Boulevard from Baisley Pond Park and had…
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I have rarely visited southeast Queens. The truth is, I was there a lot more when I lived in Bay Ridge, since I could bicycle almost directly east and wind…
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Since today (2/14) is supposed to be the holiday of love, I’ll show you a few streets around town that honor it by name… Valentine Avenue, Bronx (Do I…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Continuing south on Cross Island Parkway, the roadway briefly sneaks into Nassau County, and then straightens south of Belmont Racetrack, neatly delineating the Queens-Nassau border. The…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor Queens is a borough containing many streams. It has numerous creeks, basins, inlets, bays, and rivers. Deeper inland are a few ponds, remnants of…
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ATTENTION has been paid, and rightly so, to the NYC subway system on its 100th anniversary in 2004, but there’s an even older transit system in New York existing alongside the…
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New York City is a world mecca for tourism and entertainment. Throngs flock to Times Square every day of the year. Dozens of movies and TV shows are shot in NYC’s…
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NYC stoplight design has pretty much been stuck in neutral since the 1960s, when cylindrical posts holding three-light stoplights as well as WALK/DONT WALK signs first appeared on street corners,…