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FORGOTTENTOUR #76: WORLD’S FAIR REMNANTS
March 29, 2014Saturday, April 12, 12:00 pm In honor of the 75th anniversary of the 1939-40 World’s Fair, and the 50th anniversary of the 1964-65 Fair, we’re repeating a well-attended Flushing Meadows tour from last summer to kick off the 2014 season! Join Forgotten NY‘s Kevin Walsh and GAHS’ Rich Melnick in exploring the remnants of two [...]
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METROPOLITAN AVENUE TYPE F’s
April 7, 2014I was reminded of how long it’s been since I was on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village recently when I noticed the stretch between 73rd Place and 80th Street has gotten a set of retro version Type F posts. These are taller, thicker versions of the Type F posts that lined NYC’s side streets by [...]
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ROARING IN GLENDALE: Lions and Kiwanis
April 7, 2014While trudging through Glendale the other day, I encountered something I haven’t seen yet in Queens: a Lions Club and a Kiwanis Club sign on the same pole, this one at the busy intersection of Union Turnpike and Woodhaven Boulevard. Both service organizations have erected signs with some frequency around the city, especially in Queens, [...]
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DYKER HEIGHTS, in search of the dwindling Blimpie
April 6, 2014It’s well-known, at least by me, that among franchised lengthy sandwiches (known by different names in different parts of the country) the Blimpie sandwich is vastly superior to the Subway sandwich experience. The reason for this is simple. Blimpie uses much softer bread that soaks up all the oil and vinegar that I have applied. [...]
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GANTRY PARK GHOST TRACKS
April 4, 2014Gantry State Park in Hunters Point is undergoing yet another expansion and reconfiguration, which has already added a new ferry terminal. Even before those changes, though, the park has laid rusty railroad tracks here and there. Decades ago, a rail spur ran from Sunnyside Yards between 48th and 49th Avenues to the waterfront, where float [...]
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Remember…TELECTROSCOPE
April 3, 2014On ForgottenTour #34 in June 2008, which crossed the Manhattan and then Brooklyn Bridges, we spotted the Telectroscope that was installed on Fulton Landing (Old Fulton and Furman Streets in Brooklyn Heights). The Telectroscope was a fanciful device which, using broadband satellite technology, enabled people on either side of the Atlantic Ocean to see each other and even [...]
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FLETCHER’S on Flushing Avenue
April 3, 2014Fletcher’s Castoria, the kids’ upset stomach remedy, was sold for much of the 20th Century and was heavily advertised with painted ads on what seemed to be every available brick wall in NYC and other cities. Here at Flushing and Bushwick Avenues, two Fletcher’s Castoria ads were painted over each other, with the one on [...]
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RULETA In Forest Hills
April 2, 2014Since I began photography for FNY in 1998 I have chanced upon these small, ridged stoplight posts I dubbed “Olives” because they were inevitably painted olive green. They could still be found in some far flung city outpost here and there, but nearly all carried some variant on the Marbleite stoplight, which is rather more [...]
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TBTA SEAL: THE OWL AND THE BEAVER
April 2, 2014The seal of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority appears on a large plaque on Battery Place at the mouth of the Brooklyn-Battery, or Hugh Carey, Tunnel. I do not know when the seal was designed, but it appears to depict the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. Also included is wrought metalwork depicting tunnels beneath waves suggesting water. [...]
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HOBOKEN STREET, Manhattan
April 1, 2014The land beneath Canal Park, at Canal and West Streets, was originally granted to the city in 1686 by James II, and was once a drainage point into the Hudson River from the former Collect Pond on the east end of Canal Street. Once the pond was closed in the early 19th century, and the [...]
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