I have been somewhat time strapped in the summer of 2016, with a (temporary) full time job in Hoboken that demands 9 or 10 hours daily, a desire to relax…
Woodside
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A legacy of the M train’s brown identification “bullet” can be found at an Amtrak underpass at 32nd Avenue and 56th Street in Woodside where, incidentally, no “subway” except the…
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I found the San Miguel Beverage Corporation on 39th Avenue in Woodside at just the right time. The sign, using ecclesiastical lettering or what, with a different design, is called…
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The residents of this small house on the northwest corner of 39th Avenue and 57th Street in Woodside probably don’t know it but they’re living in one of the former…
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Here’s an unusual sign stanchion at Northern Boulevard and 55th Street; it may not look all that unusual at first glance, but this is a post that generally supports stoplights…
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Woodside is often the jump-off point for some of my lengthier walks. The reason is simple. It’s the westernmost Long Island Rail Road stop in Queens (on my branch, that…
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A sticker indicating the Verizon phone company has sufficiently peeled away on the mezzanine of the LIRR/#7 train complex in Woodside to permit view of its predecessor, Bell Atlantic, a…
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You may not think that this 1915 Belcher-Hyde map of the Woodside area around the Long Island Rail Road/Roosevelt Avenue transit complex (near old Shaw’s Hotel) has much relevancy today……
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Time hasn’t been kind to the tiny building once known as Shaw’s Hotel on 64th Street north of Woodside Avenue, hard by the Long Island Rail Road main branch. A…
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Other than the grocery on the corner of 38th Avenue and 58th Street, the stretch of 58th between 37th and 38th is unrecognizable as the commercial strip it used to…
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There are a lot of historical gems hidden in Woodside, some of them hidden behind layers of modern aluminum siding — but some of them look pretty much the same…
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Commuter and intercity rail connecting NYC and New England has run over these elevated tracks at Northern Boulevard and Broadway since the Hell Gate Bridge was constructed in 1916-1917. Here the line…