Tag: history

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...

  Image source: Nick Hirshon A new book on Forest Hills is going to be released mid-Februar...

Here at QueensNYC we love to talk about what's shiny and new, but we are also fascinated with what c...

The village of Breuckelen was established in 1646 by the Dutch, as just about everyone knows. ...

If you're riding the subway on a Sunday during holiday season, you might be in for a treat. From Q...

General Benjamin Franklin Tracy, General James Jourdan and Mr. Silas Dutcher were known as the â...

Image source: Wikipedia It's easy to forget that, well before these street numbers, apartment bui...

The War Between the States was well over by 1870, and Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general o...