QUEENS used to be the borough for horse racing, with traces of the sport evident on the map with Trotting Course Lane, National Street, artworks on the Q53 bus stops…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORContributor, Forgotten New York In 2021, Kevin posted an article on National Street in Corona and mentioned some facts about the National Race Course that once existed in…
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Reprinting an item from Forgotten New York The Book, which turns 20 years old this September; if you haven’t got it yet, there’s a link elsewhere on this page. Much…
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LONG ago, there was a Federal Express office or dropoff/retail location at #56 Duane and Elk Streets near Foley Square. (A couple of weekends ago I was puttering around on…
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In 2026, it’s easy to imagine how oddly modern and strange that modular Donald Deskey lampposts, named for their designer, a commercial artist who also designed the Gleem toothpaste tube,…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORFNY Contributor It always amazes me how many times I find things while fishing around for something else. I was recently poking around on the 1924 aerial photos…
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GIVEN that I last walked in Canarsie for any length in 2019 (much of those photos remain unused as I seek a context) I thought I would get the BMT…
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THE spring and summer of 2020 was an interesting time to rove about with a camera. The Great Infection set in in March, and I limited myself to pacing around…
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OVERSHADOWED, perhaps, by the magnificent Flatiron (Fuller) Building across the street, which has been occasionally fully or partially shadowed by construction netting the past couple of decades, is the Sohmer…
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Previously in 2026, First Reformed Church of Astoria (1888) and South Bushwick Church (1853) perished by fire; more recently, St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea has been demolished. Not a…
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WERE I to hazard a guess about the derivation or etymology of the word “stationery,” without looking it up in Merriam-Webster or Funk & Wagnalls, I’d say it’s because writing…
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For some time I have been bemused by one of the street names in southern Bayside, along Cloverdale Boulevard south of Oakland Lake in the Queens Community College area. The…