Tag: Queens Stories

See the oldest Brooklyn subway station house, gravestones in Dutch and the original Ebinger's Ba...

Though western Queens is well-known for its vast cemeteries, there are also a number of very small...

"The" City. A recent post offered the term in a casual manner, with the statement that I had "con...

What would become Woodside, a bustling community centered at Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street wher...

Linneaus Place Flushing has kept many of its old street names, not converting them to the numerica...

There is something about the exclusivity, mysteriousness and the whole “secret society” elemen...

Beach Attendance Was Up in the Rockaways This Summer Queens Pols Battle It Out on Primary Day ...

Flushing’s architecture becomes rather drab once you depart from the historic areas along Northe...

Zion Church, on Northern Boulevard east of Douglaston Parkway, was first completed in 1830 on plan...

In 1931, workers excavated the north side of Northern Boulevard just west of Little Neck Parkway. ...