Tag: history

Read Part 1 of this story. If you live in Brooklyn today, you know that the borough is spor...

In Queens, you can find history in the most unexpected places. Take this gas station in College Poin...

A look at Brooklyn, then and now. The Lefferts family was one of Brooklyn’s largest and wealthi...

Brooklyn Height’s status as the “first suburb” is both a blessing to the neighborhood, and a c...

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5 and Part 6 of this story. It’s both a cultural phenomenon a...

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 of this story. Imagine what it would be like to be...

Read Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 of this story. Picture if you will, a growing town...

Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6 of this story. As long time readers of this blog k...

Image source: Seabamirum on Flickr Legendary Steinway & Sons pianos are made right in Astoria...

Over the months, we've featured a number of maps on QueensNYC - what can we say, we think maps are p...