Whitestone

JUST for fun, I dragged my H.G. Wells Time Machine out of the closet for another spin. It’s always tricky to travel into the past because the least little thing…

Though I live in Little Neck and my needs are seen to by Little Neck Drugs on Northern Boulevard, I thought I’d note Harpell Chemists on 150th Street and 14th…

That might seem to be a simple question. If asked, many Queensites would say it’s at Citifield, because MTA signage for the past few decades has proclaimed the stop between…

Here’s an interesting (well, to me) map of Queens prepared by Ohman Maps in 1936. It shows the entire route of the recently-shuttered Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Railroad,…

Riders on the Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch (as I have been since 1992) are quite familiar with the Flushing Main Street station. But there’s something unusual about…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent With the ongoing public debate going on regarding the future of the Steinway Mansion, whose yard space has been reduced and is being…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years, the coastlines of Manhattan and Brooklyn have been reclaimed by the public as ribbons of waterfront parkland take up shores that…

These ‘newfangled’ fire alarm stanchions are among the newest in a series of such posts that go back all the way to 1887. Incredibly, a number of models that go…

I was slowly making my unsteady way up Clintonville Street in Whitestone one searing afternoon in the dead dog heat of the summer of 2010. My brain cells, seared nearly past…

Whitestone Bridge from The Boulevard, Malba According to legend, Whitestone takes its name from a large offshore rock where tides from the East River and Long Island Sound met; in other…

The Cryder farm water tower, Cryder Point Apartments, Whitestone GUEST POST BY JASON D. ANTOS author, Whitestone, Arcadia 2006 The Town of Whitestone was first settled by the Dutch in 1645 where…

  Imagine boarding the Long Island Railroad at Penn Station or Woodside and traveling east on the Port Washington Branch. After leaving the Shea Stadium platform, the train does notgo east past Main…