One of my notions, when I lived in Queens, was that the abundant grave yards along the Brooklyn Queens border which form the so called ‘Cemetery Belt’ are fantastic places to stretch your legs and get some exercise. Few or no cars, lots of trees and birds… just stick to the roads ...
4414 Newtown Rd APT 5H, Queens, NY 11103 Sold $443,100 --bd|--ba|--sqft 4414 Newtown Rd APT 1E, Astoria, NY 11103 Off Market $165,000 --bd|1ba|--sqft 4414 Newtown Rd APT 4M, Queens, NY 11103 Sold $6,577,000 --bd|--ba|--sqft ...
The oil tanks in the center of the site betray the presence of the “Queens County Oil Works” of Charles Pratt, which were also known as the “Standard Oil Blissville Works”. Blissville, of course, is the historic name of this part of Queens which was once a residential area. Clear ...
A few years back,after reluctantly showing up for Jury Duty, the bailiffs of the Queens County court system went apoplectic when they saw my camera bag. They had no reaction whatsoever to the web connected video camera everybody else was carrying… you know, iPhones… but the DSLR represente...
New York (NY) Times - City Room Blog April 24, 2009, 5:09 pm Should the Big Apple’s Official Apple Be Green? By Jennifer 8. Lee (...) The apple in question is the Newtown Pippin, which originated in what is now Elmhurst, Queens, around 1720 and then ascended to become a tradem...
Safety Zone; Kosciuszko Bridge Construction, Newtown Creek, Brooklyn and Queens, NYMichael H. Day
Notice of Final Federal Actions on the Kosciuszko Bridge (Interstate 278) Over Newtown Creek, Kings and Queens Counties, NYJeffrey W. Kolb
Queens is speaking to me again, and for the first time in months, intelligibly. –photo by Mitch Waxman Oddly, the ever present headphones worn while walking this path- literally as these shots were being captured- began playing Wagner’s “Flight of the Valkyries”. As this is a random...
In 1870, before the 1898 consolidation with New York City, the Queens county seat moved from Jamaica to the newly-formed township of Long Island City, which was near all of the train lines. Long Island City was made up of the towns of Astoria and Newtown. Abram Ditmars, the first mayor...
Mentioned yesterday,the building pictured above sits on the site of the first large scale petroleum refinery in the United States. It later became known as the Standard Oil Queens County Oil Works, but the original 1854 facility and its founder aredescribed in this post from 2014. ...