THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…
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BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…
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THERE are three separate styles of lampposts at the new-ish 72nd Street stationhouse at Verdi Square, where Broadway meets Amsterdam Avenue. Two I am familiar with, while the other one…
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UPON ambling through Douglaston to take in the crisp spring air (an El Niño is developing that will keep it hot and humid for a few months soon enough) I…
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PROBABLY the obscurest and shortest street that is traversed by a NYC elevated subway is Birchall Avenue, which runs from White Plains Road south beyond Sagamore Street to a dead…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…
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GREATEST naval commander of the Civil War David Farragut’s father was a Spanish sea captain who fought for the colonies in the Revolution. After his mother died, his father allowed…
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YOU don’t expect to find a 3-story mixed-use brick building quite like this one all the way south in Great Kills, Staten Island, but that’s what you’ve got at Amboy…
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ASK any person on the street in Queens where they think Bayside Cemetery is, and the inevitable answer would be … Bayside. Not the case. Bayside Cemetery is actually one…
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HYLAN Boulevard in Staten Island, the longest road on the island not an expressway (though Richmond Avenue may have challenged it before its northern end was renamed Port Richmond Avenue…
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AFTER a long cold winter when I couldn’t really get out because of snow, cold and wind from December through much of February, I have been making up a bit,…
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THE Reformed Dutch Church of Hallets Cove (later Good Church of Deliverance) at 27-26 12th Street in Astoria Village was built in 1888; its verdigris’ed steeple replaced the original in 1900.…