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The New York State Pavilion has a tremendous history and an uncertain future. Designed by legendary architect Philip Johnson and built for the 1964 World’s Fair, it once had 100-foot columns suspending a 50,000 square-foot roof with multi-colored panels. It also boasted three towers (measuring 60 feet, 150 feet, and 226 feet, respectively) and a…
What is Antonio to do? He’s a well-respected community leader, but through a complex effort to help a friend in love he owes a pound of his own flesh to a man who despises him. And what about that pathetic Sir John Falstaff? He devised a get-rich-quick scheme that backfired big time. Now he’s being…
The numbers just don’t add up. A glass bottle takes one million years to biodegrade, while a monofilament fishing line delays six centuries, and a plastic bottle takes 450 years. No wonder garbage dumps keep getting bigger and bigger. Electronic waste is even more concerning. As it often contains lead, mercury, and cadmium, it is responsible…
On Thursday, the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce will host Flushing Night Out at Flushing Town Hall. It’ll be a social event with plenty of food, fashion, crafts, live performances, and an electronic dance music set by deejay Black Maroon. The list of vendors includes the following: Snowdays (shaved ice cream); NY Makgeolli (Korean rice wine); Phil…
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Macedonia Plaza Now Accepting Affordable Housing ApplicationsNice piece, per usual. Think there's a typo, though, the “Lipstick Building” is on 53rd not 43rd.
Golden Crown Returns to QueensLove it there - it's Flushing's best kept secret, right out in the open.
Queens Botanical Garden: A Slice of Flushing ParadiseMany thanks for this informative article! I've long wondered about that station and really appreciate the history you've provided. I'd like to raise two points. First, is that the structural elements you've called "pillars" would more accurately be called arches. Second, is to ask you to explain more about how Northern Boulevard east of what became the Nassau line was called North Hempstead Turnpike. Since that eastern region was part of Queens back then, what was the pre-split significance of the point where the name changed? Why did the change happen at that location before there was a border? Also, if it was Northern that became North Hempstead Turnpike, then how is it that the street I live on, now stuck with the clumsy monicker of Booth Memorial Avenue, was called North Hempstead Turnpike when my family moved here in the late 50s?
Tracking the Evolution of Flushing’s Broadway LIRR Station