Glad to be with you this week — for most of the day I began to compose the page it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it, as…
Sunnyside
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Queens’ Sunnyside Yards were competed in 1910, at the same time as Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and the four tunnels that at long last brought Long Island Rail Road trains…
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The Spanish Mission-style Augustinian Academy on Campus Road just east of Howard Avenue stood from 1923 until the early 2000s. The Augustinian Academy, founded in 1899 in New Brighton, purchased…
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Just to get it out of the way, there’s no organization called “Hike New York”, but there are 44 pairs of 24″ diameter signs placed along designated routes in Astoria,…
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This illuminated sign that appears at 43rd Avenue and 36th Street in Sunnyside seems to be advertising a now-departed business. There are various CRECOs worldwide: equipment rental, light manufacturing, concrete…
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A quasar, which stands for “quasi-stellar” is a super-bright area in the center of a galaxy being swallowed by a black hole, emitting tremendous amounts of radioelectric energy. Some quasars…
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Here’s a pair of doorways on 45th Street near 50th Avenue in Sunnyside that show the creators and purveyors of Fedders Specials how it’s done, with stylish arched doorways with…
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I was still not working, and the dead dog heat of August baked with its usual intensity (and this year the dead dog heat would be extended into October, when…
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In a photo that didn’t make the upcoming Forgotten Queens book, a general store stands on the corner of Borden Avenue and 45th Street in the Fabulous Forties. This site…
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I’m highlighting the sign identifying Celtic Avenue (properly pronounced “Keltic” though probably few do) because I took it a few years ago, and it’s now been replaced with a new…
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The concrete-cladded viaduct that takes the IRT #7 Flushing Line down the middle of Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside was built in 1917, and in the mid-1990s was treated to a…
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There seems to be some strange stuff, lamppost and luminaire-wise, increasingly happening in Sunnyside, Queens. While NYC’s streets until mid-2009 were a glorious mish mosh of lighting styles, from the…