STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY REMNANT, Livingston

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Though the North Shore Branch of the Staten Island Railway ended passenger service in 1953, and freight service east of Arlington some years later, a short stretch of extant tracks can still be found north of Richmond Terrace at about Bard Avenue. This photo comes from about five years ago, before Hurricane Sandy, and the [...]

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HDA partners with W.K. Kellogg Foundation

AUSTIN, TEXAS. – The 2015 National Hispanic/Latino Oral Health Education Campaign begins on June 30^th.  The project is funded by a $50,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich.

“As the Hispanic Community continues to grow, oral health disparities are not being addressed at a pace that keeps up with the increase in the population size.  We look forward to an impactful partnership where we can empower the public with culturally appropriate oral health information,” voiced Dr. Vidal Balderas DDS, President of the Hispanic Dental Association.

Campaign efforts will be national in scope, but highlight and focus in cities where HDA has a professional chapter and be augmented through its 34 Dental Student Chapters. The focus centers on 3 key components;

1. Educate dental oral health professionals regarding the oral health needs of the underserved population in their communities suffering from untreated dental disease.

2. Educate private practitioners on how to strengthen and expand the public/private health safety net
through new innovative oral health providers and workforce models.

3. Educate the Hispanic/Latino population on disease prevention and dental health through bi-lingual
messaging and materials.

Read More:  HDA WK Kellogg Press Release

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GREEN LIGHTS, Hunters Point

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I usually make it a habit to stay out of police precincts — I’ve never been hauled in for a crime, and the only other occasion I’d have to visit is if I have to report one. But exteriors are a different story, and the 108th Precinct building on 50th Avenue in Hunters Point is [...]

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WOODSIDE TO BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Part 4

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Continued from Part 3 GOOGLE MAP: WOODSIDE TO BEDFORD-STUYVESANT Having walked Greene Avenue for the most part, alternating with Bleecker Street, through Ridgewood, I decided to continue on Greene westward past Broadway, the undefended border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Ridgewood, and eventually stagger to the G train, which connects with the #7, which connects with the [...]

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CLASSIC TWIN, Madison Square

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I don’t like the way I lined up this shot, so I’ll have to improve on it the next time I’m in the vicinity, but now more than ever is the time to chronicle 5th Avenue’s classic twinlamps. In the past decade we have lost remaining ones on 5th Avenue and W. 23rd Street as [...]

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THOMSON METER, DUMBO

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Over the winter [2015] I worked in DUMBO for several weeks. One of my favorite buildings in the neighborhood is the Thomson Meter Building at Jay and York Streets; its ornate, rococo exterior is quite out of context for the neighborhood, which is dominated by stolid brick and concrete buildings originally used for manufacturing, many [...]

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BOSTON’S ANCIENT LAMPPOSTS

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By Sean Colby and Kevin Walsh Boston once had an ornamental-type light pole with a fluted base that was used for streetlights. Although no longer used for actual streetlights, many of the poles themselves still appear around the city, some with other types of lights. Three appear on Brookline Avenue alone: on the above title [...]

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GAS, WATER AND TELEPHONE RELICS

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By Sean Colby and Kevin Walsh Boston Gas (Light) Company was founded in 1822. Over the years other gas companies were established around Boston as well, but in 1905 many merged, and the Boston Consolidated Gas Company formed. Boston Consolidated Gas became Boston Gas in 1955. Boston Gas eventually became a part of Eastern Enterprises, [...]

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BOSTON’S SUBSTATIONS AND MANHOLES

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By Sean Colby and Kevin Walsh Electricity for commercial use first got its start in Boston in the mid-1880′s with the creation of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston. This company was a subsidiary of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, which was formed in December 1880. After E.E.I.Co of Boston was [...]

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REMNANTS OF THE OAKLAND GOLF CLUB, Bayside

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York City has more colleges than any other city in the county. The campuses vary from the open campuses of New York University and Baruch College, to picturesque academic villages such as Brooklyn College and Fordham University. Some, such as SUNY Maritime and Kingsborough Community College, occupy former [...]

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SUMMIT COURT, Flushing

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No street, inch for inch and brick by brick, represents what has happened to many NYC communities more than what has happened to Summit Court, a dead end on Sanford Avenue just east of College Point Boulevard. I took a photo of it in the early 2000s and you can see that it was lined [...]

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FLUSHING MEADOWS SIGNS

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About 25 years ago, special signs were commissioned by the NYC Parks department for Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Whereas other parks use squarish, brown signs with Palatino lettering and the leaf design in gold leaf, FMCP has a deluxe edition in multicolors. The (indeterminate) leaf and the Palatino font are still in place, but this is [...]

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JEWISH HERITAGE MURAL, Lower East Side

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Inscribed with the words “Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life” (seen on the lower right) this mural at 232 East Broadway east of Clinton Street depicts major events in Jewish history over the course of a century, including the exodus from Europe, the rise of the labor movement on the Lower [...]

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BISHOP CROOK, Hunters Point

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For years I patronized the Waterfront Crabhouse in the rapidly changing Hunters Point, but now that it has closed after the death of owner Tony Mazzarella, I should say something about the hybrid Bishop Crook posts at the front entrance. Both appear to be park poles with bishop crook masts affixed to the top. This [...]

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WOODSIDE TO BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Part 3

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Continued from Part 2 I hope you’re not getting tired of Brooklyn and Queens, as this turned out into an epic walk between Queens and Brooklyn — I shot over 250 photos and may have to go to Part 4! I did an even longer, 13-mile walk a few weeks later, on which I got [...]

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COMMERCIAL BUILDING, Astoria

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There is an interesting building on Broadway and 31st Street by the el in Astoria. It appears to be two separate buildings, but that’s only because the right side has received an “update” and the Ionic pilasters and arched windows, lintels, etc have been stripped away. But that’s not what’s interesting…   The roof treatments [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #93: HUNTERS POINT

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The newly expanded Gantry State Park is the main attraction in this neighborhood on the move, as well as several relics of the 19th Century still hiding in plain sight in the neighborhood formerly known as Dominie’s Hook. We’ll see Flemish architecture, riverside trainyards converted to parks, and classic brownstones seemingly transported from Brooklyn. WHEN: Sunday, [...]

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HDA/GSAHDA’s BOLD Program wins National Award

Hispanic Dental Association’s Building Our Leaders in Dentistry (BOLD) Program receives a 2015 Power of A Silver Award.

The American Society of Association Executives has named the BOLD Program one of its 2015 winners of its Power of A Awards,
which showcase how associations leverage their unique resources to solve problems, advance industry/professional performance,
kick-start innovation and improve world conditions.

 

“Each year, the Power of A Awards recognize the lasting, positive impact associations have on society,” said ASAE President and
CEO John H. Graham, FASAE, CAE. “The awards give us a chance to celebrate the extraordinary activities that associations undertake.
They give us specific, moving stories that we can share with policymakers, the media, and other key audiences to increase awareness
about the association sector and its contributions to America and on a global level.”

The BOLD Program was created in South Texas by the San Antonio Chapter of the Hispanic Dental Association.  The program and
its components are now replicated by other chapters of the HDA throughout the US.  The BOLD Program has reached over 3000
students since its inception.  The goals of the program are geared towards encouraging minority youth to enter the dental profession
while providing those who choose the profession with financial support, scholarships and mentoring.

The formal award presentation will be made at the upcoming HDA 25^th Anniversary Conference, August 14-15 in San Antonio, Texas.

www.HDAssoc.org
www.ASAECenter.org

 

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ECONOMY DRUGS, High Bridge

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I was going to hold off on this till I wrote a High Bridge page (I walked across the newly reopened span) but here’s one I’ve overlooked till now, a huge painted ad for the former Economy Drugs on Featherbed Lane and Jesup Avenue in the Bronx’ High Bridge section. There’s still a drugstore across [...]

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SURVIVING IN ASTORIA

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I need something cleared up. In 2015, what, specifically, is Astoria and what, specifically, is Long Island City? I understand that Long Island City was a separate entity on its own prior to Queens’ capture by, er, consolidation with New York City in 1898, and that it encompassed Astoria, Ravenswood, Hunters’ Point, Blissville, etc. until [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #91, Norwood

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On May 31st, fourteen Forgotten Fans toured with me in Norwood, a small but historic neighborhood nestles west of Bronx Park and south of Woodlawn Cemetery. Conditions were sticky and overcast, but once again without rain. Some tour highlights…   St, Brendan’s Church, Perry Avenue and East 206th Street, was built to resemble a ship. [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #92, Woodhaven

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Twenty-five Forgotten Fans turned out on a brilliant June 14th for the 92nd ForgottenTour in Woodhaven, Queens, the first time FNY had toured in the district. There was plenty to engage tourgoers…   The tour met at the former Cross Bay Theatre, which closed in 2005 and became a Modell’s Sporting Goods, the fate of [...]

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UNUSUAL POST, Woodside

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Here’s an unusual sign stanchion at Northern Boulevard and 55th Street; it may not look all that unusual at first glance, but this is a post that generally supports stoplights or pedestrian control signals. The wide base, as a rule, holds electronics and the hollow shaft is used to run connecting wires up to the [...]

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WOODSIDE TO BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 Woodside is often the jump-off point for some of my lengthier walks. The reason is simple. It’s the westernmost Long Island Rail Road stop in Queens (on my branch, that is; there are stops at Hunters Point as well as Long Island City that are only used weekday rush hours). Thus, [...]

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Oral Health Month-Media Coverage

Oral Health Month receives media coverage and both Colgate and HDA are mentioned in The New York Times.

You can review the article here.

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KEUFFEL & ESSER BUILDING, Seaport

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In my career in graphic arts as a proofreader, typesetter, copywriter, and mechanical artist (which are all, I realize, becoming jobs of the past) there was a time when I didn’t just sit in front of a machine, typing. I worked at Photo-Lettering, the biggest type shop in the city, proofreading, typesetting and later what [...]

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COMING TO AN EL NEAR YOU…

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As I was staggering down Roosevelt Avenue in Corona the other day, crazy from the heat, I noticed a new variety of lamppost that has appeared, a davit-style, cylindrical post. As of mid-2015 a couple of dozen of these had replaced…   The brown-painted, L-shaped fixtures holding New Gumballs that have been used under many [...]

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FORT SCHUYLER, Throg(g)s Neck

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent So longtime Forgotten-NY fans may have noticed, there are two things that attract e in particular when it comes to the city’s geography, waterway and land extremities. In the latter category, my previous Forgotten-NY travels included Breezy Point, Kingsborough Community College, North Astoria, College Point, and Whitestone Point. Perhaps the least visited and lengthiest [...]

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Colgate’s 2015 Oral Health Month Launched.

 

The Hispanic Dental Association Joins Colgate to Help Educate Hispanic Families About the Importance of Healthy HabitsThe Hispanic Dental Association Joins Colgate to Help Educate Hispanic Families About the Importance of Healthy Habits

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BELL TELEPHONE, Bushwick

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Found recently on Bushwick Avenue. Photo: Gary Fonville 6/8/15

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WOODSIDE TO BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Part 1

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Woodside is often the jump-off point for some of my lengthier walks. The reason is simple. It’s the westernmost Long Island Rail Road stop in Queens (on my branch, that is; there are stops at Hunters Point as well as Long Island City that are only used weekday rush hours). Thus, I set off for [...]

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FIRE ALARM LAMP HOLDER, Flushing

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I’ll miss these when they are gone. Scrolled metal shafts like these used to hold fire alarm indicator lamps on telephone poles in three boroughs of New York City (I’ve never seen them in Manhattan or Staten Island). The light bulb at the end usually was covered by a silo-shaped orange plastic diffuser (supplanting the [...]

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WHITESTONE’S FAR NORTH

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years, the coastlines of Manhattan and Brooklyn have been reclaimed by the public as ribbons of waterfront parkland take up shores that previously belonged to industry. As we reported previously in College Point and North Astoria, Queens’ East River Shoreline is not as accessible. Here, residential developers [...]

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WESTINGHOUSE MO-8

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The Westinghouse MO-8 once lit NYC streets by the hundreds or perhaps thousands from 1962 to 1972. Known as “open-bottom” or “cutoff” luminaires, they were designed to illuminate residential or side streets without a glass reflector bowl in a somewhat dim, greenish white glow. They were the counterparts to the Westy OV-25, which had a [...]

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HARRISON STREET HOUSES, Tribeca

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The former 331, 329, 327 Washington Street before Independence Plaza was built Though the massive yet quite mundane Independence Plaza now dominates the old Washington Market area, there’s a break in the action at Greenwich and Harrison Streets, where you will find a smattering of tiny Federal-style townhouses, six facing Harrison Street. These houses were all [...]

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HOLMES LANE, Canarsie

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Holmes Lane and East 95th Street south of Avenue K I haven’t been down to Canarsie, a neighborhood in southeast Brooklyn where a number of its original roads survive in the form of alleys, in a few years.  Holmes Lane, which runs between East 95th and 96th, is so obscure the Google Street View truck [...]

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OSTERBURG WAY, Pittsburgh

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I have often lamented the lack of named back alleys in New York City. Pittsburgh, PA fills the bill with hundreds of them, almost all called “ways.” This is Osterburg Way near Kentucky Avenue in the Shadyside section, in the geographical center of town. Note the Belgian block pavement in the foreground, and you can [...]

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TROLLEY REMNANT, Norwood

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On the FNY Norwood tour on May 31st, 2014, we  ran across this tall, iron post at Webster Avenue and East 204th. My feeling is that it used to hold trolley wire, but the 3rd Avenue El once ran along Webster Avenue as well, north to where it made a right turn on East Gun [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #92, Woodhaven, Queens

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Woodhaven is home to the oldest tavern in New York City, which we will visit along with a look at the remnants of enamelware factories, hidden cemeteries and historic carousels, as well as one of Queens’ most architecturally beautiful blocks! WHEN: Sunday, June 14th, 12 NOON WHERE: Meet northeast corner Woodhaven Boulevard and Rockaway Boulevard [...]

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