ASTORIA 2014

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Astoria…Ditmars Boulevard…the subway roll signs on the R train advertised these outlandish, far-off locales when I boarded it in Bay Ridge when I lived there for the better part of three decades, but I never really thought to trouble this northwest section of Queens, except for the occasional bicycle ride through, until I actually moved [...]

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AUGUSTINIAN ACADEMY, Sunnyside (Staten Island)

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The Spanish Mission-style Augustinian Academy on Campus Road just east of Howard Avenue stood from 1923 until the early 2000s. The Augustinian Academy, founded in 1899 in New Brighton, purchased acreage in the hilly area and built the academy as a seminary for boys aspiring to the priesthood. The small school thrived for over four [...]

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AKRON, 1958

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I’m thankful that I hung onto my map collection of both NYC and countrywide, which I began acquiring in the early 1970s at age 12 and came to number over 300 at its peak. If scanning them isn’t too much trouble I may feature them here from time to time, but what I’m really looking [...]

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CENTRE CROOK, Little Italy

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I’m thankful that a small number of “original” bishop crook lamps from the early 20th Century have been allowed to stand (mostly by default, but now most are landmarked) like this one at Grand and Centre Streets, which is still there. 1978 photo by NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero 11/27/14

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195 BROADWAY EXIT, Fulton Street

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There’s been a lot of “ink” and cyberink spilled lately regarding the new Fulton Transit Center, which is basically a new headhouse with rearranged passageways that links the BMT, IND and IRT in Lower Manhattan. Personally, at first glance, I find the place a bit cold and dystopian, but I realize they weren’t going to [...]

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HIGH STREET STATION ARTIFACTS, Downtown Brooklyn

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photo: Wayne Whitehorne, courtesy NYC Subways When it was opened on February 11th, 1933 as part of the new Independent Subway System, the High Street station on today’s A and C lines, the first or last station in Brooklyn depending on your direction, was indeed located on High Street. When the east-west street was laid [...]

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BAISLEY BOULEVARD to ST. ALBANS, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 Before I was rudely interrupted by a WordPress malfunction last Monday, I was making my way northeast on Baisley Boulevard from Baisley Pond Park and had barely made my way to the LIRR overpass at Rochdale Village before everything went kaput. I’ll pick things up from there. The neighborhood in southern [...]

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MID-CENTURY HIGHWAY SIGN, Briarwood

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Heavy iron T-shaped directional signs were once standard issue on New York City’s parkways. Originally the signs were white with black lettering and illuminated by attached incandescent bulbs. Today the lettering, increasingly in the Clearview font, features reflective materials that light up when headlights catch them. There were rather less massive posts in the same [...]

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MATHEWS FLATS, Woodside

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The streets of Long Island City, Ridgewood and to a lesser degree, Woodside, are lined with blond bricked Mathews Model Flats, each unit produced for $8000 in 1915 by Gustave X. Mathews, who is virtually unknown today but responsible for much classic residential architecture in Queens. The distinctive yellow bricks were produced in the kilns [...]

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BAISLEY BOULEVARD and St. Alban’s, Part 1

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I have rarely visited southeast Queens. The truth is, I was there a lot more when I lived in Bay Ridge, since I could bicycle almost directly east and wind up there. I’d race myself to see how quick I could do a round trip from Bay Ridge to, say, Laurelton or Rosedale, and sometimes [...]

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HIKE NEW YORK, Sunnyside

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Just to get it out of the way, there’s no organization called “Hike New York”, but there are 44 pairs of 24″ diameter signs placed along designated routes in Astoria, and also reaching into the landmarked Sunnyside Gardens Historic District. Working with the cooperation of NYC’s Public Art Fund and the Department of Transportation, in [...]

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CRECO, Sunnyside

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This illuminated sign that appears at 43rd Avenue and 36th Street in Sunnyside seems to be advertising a now-departed business. There are various CRECOs worldwide: equipment rental, light manufacturing, concrete construction, crepe restaurants, video editing. Lots more… I wonder what CRECO in Sunnyside made. 11/14/14

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HAMMER TIME, Evergreens Cemetery

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Here’s a huge bronze trumpeting angel in Bushwick’s Evergreens Cemetery at the memorial of Bernhard Hammer (1836-1905) and other family members. The Latin inscription on the crest, Malleum incude malim, can be translated as “I would rather be the hammer than the anvil.” 11/13/14

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BUSHWICK-ABERDEEN STATION, Bushwick

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I had never known where the entrance was for the Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street station on the Canarsie Line, popularly known as the L train. I was always looking around for it on Google Street View on Aberdeen Street, where the map says it is, and I had never seen the traditional railed staircase that subway [...]

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CENTRAL BRICKS, Bushwick

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Meandering mindlessly in Bushwick a couple of years ago, I walked down the dead-end section of Central Avenue under the Long Island Rail Road elevated tracks. Here can be found entrances to two cemeteries: one to Most Holy Trinity Cemetery, which is located entirely in Brooklyn, and at the end, an adjutant entrance to Evergreens [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #85, LOWER EAST SIDE

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Perfect weather returned for ForgottenTour #85 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on October 19th, 2014. I perhaps overpacked the tour with highlights — 60 in all — so I had to leave some of them off the tour as we passed our 3-hour time limit. They will be used the next time a Forgotten NY [...]

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HAMILTON HEIGHTS TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Part 2

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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Hamilton and Washington Heights, named for the country’s first Treasurer Alexander Hamilton, who built a house here that still stands, albeit [...]

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OLD MILL ROAD, New Lots

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I first found it in the late 1970s, on one of my many bicycling trips from Bay Ridge way out east, to New Lots, Ozone Park or even further, depending on how much time was available. The longest round trip I ever made was Bay Ridge to Valley Stream and back. Modest by the standards [...]

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WHERE AM I?

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There’s a lot of mud and trucks a few blocks away. 11/5/14

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ARION MANNERCHÖR, Bushwick

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On Arion Place between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue is the hulk of the old Arion Mannerchör, Bushwick’s foremost German “singing society,” an organization promoting German culture. It later became a mansion and catering hall, but these days it has been converted to apartments (when I first visited in 1999, the building was in decrepit shape). [...]

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SENECA AVENUE LAMP, Ridgewood

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A pair of lampposts at Seneca Avenue and Palmetto Street have masts that take unusual twists to get around the elevated train girders that support the M train, on the last portion of the Myrtle Avenue el still surviving. Well into the 1980s, perhaps 1990s, this pair of posts, catercorner to each other, supported incandescent [...]

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GEN. GEORGE J. LAWRENCE SQUARE, Flushing

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General George E. Lawrence Square (actually a Triangle), defined by Parsons Boulevard, Elm Avenue and 147th Street along 45th Avenue, can be found across the street from Flushing Hospital. It honors a St. Francis College graduate (my alma mater) who was a star quarterback at Penn, graduated with a medical degree and began his practice [...]

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HAMILTON and WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

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On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Hamilton and Washington Heights, named for the country’s first Treasurer Alexander Hamilton, who built a house here that still stands, albeit after several moves, and [...]

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