Can it be over 20 years since I traveled the length of the Long Island Motor Parkway in Glen Oaks? When I bicycled in Queens I used it all the…
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REGRETFULLY, I have not been to London or to any city outside the North American continent. I’m sure I’ll be criticized for this, but I shy away from places where…
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WITH its distinctive Tudor-style ticket offices with shaped and cut glass and unique luminaires, Forest Hills station’s position overlooking Burns Street seems perfect to give a speech, and that’s exactly what…
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THE time between the leaves fall in November and when they come back again in April can be the best time for street photography but can also be the worst.…
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MINETTA Street and Minetta Lane in the heart of Greenwich Village are both named for the brook that originally arose in midtown in the Madison Square area (5th Avenue and…
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It has been 26 years since I explored a favorite road going way back to when I lived in Brooklyn, Old New Utrecht Road. I don’t know when I first…
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THIS building at #56 Bleecker Street, NE corner of Crosby, isn’t officially called the “Roosevelt House” but I’ll give it a name, as it was constructed by James Roosevelt in…
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THE colonial-era Lefferts family is remembered in Kings and Queens Counties, from the Lefferts Gardens neighborhood east of Prospect Park to Lefferts Avenue in Propect Heights to Lefferts Boulevard in…
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OUT for my usual morning walk, I passed by two Little Neck dead ends, Cornell Lane and Jessie Court, which issue from the north side of Northern Boulevard east of…
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PART of the fun in exploring NYC neighborhoods is that you can look up the block and see a random gilded onion dome. The one seen here, on 118th Street…
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REMINDERS of the colonial-era Bowne family can be seen all over NYC, from Flushing, Queens to City Island, Bronx. I lived in Flushing 14 years, 1993-2007, and have been on…
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THERE has been a drugstore on the SW corner of Queens Boulevard and 55th Avenue in Elmhurst since 1921, which was when Queens Boulevard (formerly Hoffman Boulevard in this stretch)…