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MACY'S STARS, LADIES MILE
In one of the former Macy’s buildings now owned by the New School (Arnhold Hall) you can make out some red stars, the longtime Macy’s symbol
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December 27, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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NOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL...NYC's Christmas Streets
There are a scattering of streets around town that remind one of Christmas, the anniversary of Jesus Christ's birth
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December 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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BEECHER OF BROOKLYN HEIGHTS
The pastor staged mock slave auctions to call attention to the evils of slavery; his sister, Harriet, wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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December 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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LIRR CORONA, 1999
The extremely old (1950s) LIRR MP-72 units along the platform, were, believe it or not, still in service. You usually never saw them here...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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WORLD'S FAIR 1964
NYC has pretty much eradicated much of the 1964-65 Fair... Yet, here and there, you'll see traces of its old grandeur
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December 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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TENNIS AND PICNIC HOUSES, PROSPECT PARK
Unique in their design but diverging in their history; Picnic House is open for events, Tennis House fenced-off as a storage space
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December 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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WASHINGTON PASSED HERE
At the corner of West Alley Road and 233rd Street, at the spaghetti ramp interchange of the Horace Harding Expressway (LIE) and Cross Island Parkway, you’ll see a small, unobtrusive…
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December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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KOWALINSKI POST, MASPETH
The fire siren on top of the Alden Sampson Oil Cloth Factory would scream out its summons and firefighters would receive their direction
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December 19, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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NEVILLE-TYSEN HOUSE, NEW BRIGHTON
The Neville-Tysen House at 806 Richmond Terrace near Tysen Street was built by sea captain John Neville between 1770 and 1800.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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RITA BRADY SQUARE
Who was Rita Brady? The co-founder of Woodside on the Move, a community organization organized in 1976 dedicated to providing social services
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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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ALASKA STREET, WEST BRIGHTON
Among the relatively humdrum street name in West Brighton, just east of Port Richmond, one name sticks out: Alaska Street
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December 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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MISSES BROOKLYN AND MANHATTAN
Revolving replicas built by artist Brian Tolle were constructed of resin and took their place on a pedestal on the FAE median in 2017
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December 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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WHERE BROADWAY BEGINS
#1 Broadway is the International Merchant Marine Building, built in 1884 and refaced in limestone in 1922.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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BABALOKENATH LAUNDROMAT, CORONA
Baba Lokenath Brahmachari was a revered Indian yogi, mystic, and spiritual master from Bengal considered by many an incarnation of Shiva
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December 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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IHOP, FLUSHING
There are over 1100 such franchisees in the US, and 1800 counting Canada, Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia
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December 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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DUNNINGHAM TRIANGLE, ELMHURST
Named in 1945, for Jabez E. Dunningham (1868-1945), British born founder of the Queens Council of Civic Associations
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December 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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RUTGERS STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE
The street takes its name from Henry Rutgers (1745-1830), a captain in the Revolutionary Army who held meetings of the Sons of Liberty
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December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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THE NEW TRYLON AND PERISPHERE
I thought immediately of the old Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939-1940 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows. I wasn't there of course
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December 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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A & S PORK, GRAVESEND
If I lived near A&S Pork Store, Avenue X between West and East 1st Streets, I'd be a lot bigger than presently
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December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART FOUR
Bushwick suffered horribly in the aftermath of a citywide blackout in July 1977 when looting decimated businesses along Broadway
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December 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Today's SpliceToday today
Seeing Port Richmond
Port Richmond embodies James Kunstler’s rejection of the "tragic landscape" of American highways and more. || Kevin Walsh
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December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART 3
Kings County's former Bedford Village, were either named for England’s Bedfordshire or the Dutch Bestevaar, “meeting place of old men.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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CASHMAN'S TOWER, CONCOURSE
Prior to hosting high school students, this building was a commercial laundry, built by brothers Sol and Simon Cashman in 1932
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December 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART 1
Soccer Tavern, 8th Avenue near 60th Street, was likely named for the nearby soccer fields at 8th Avenue and 65th Street.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART TWO
Kings County Hospital is the oldest place of medical treatment in Kings County and possibly all of New York City
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November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM