Glendale
On a frigid afternoon last week, I found myself at Machpela Cemetery, visiting the grave of perhaps the greatest celebrity of the early 20th century – Harry Houdini. Houdini was a stage magician, an escape artist, a genius promoter, a star of the stage and screen, claimed to be one of the toughest men alive,…
The quiet neighborhood of Glendale contains a number of anachronisms, including the passage of the Long Island Rail Road Montauk spur from west to east. This sleepy line now carries freight only, but it’s only been a year or two since at least one daily passenger train plied the tracks here. And, until March 1998…
With about 130,000 residents, Queens is home to more war veterans than any other borough in New York City. This weekend various neighborhoods honor their war heroes with Memorial Day parades, including biggest one in the country (Little Neck/Douglaston). The Maspeth Memorial Day Parade (Sunday, May 25th, at 1 pm) is always an emotional display of…
This Saturday, Finaback Brewery will open its tasting room in Glendale for the very first time. They’ll serve special priced pours and BBQ from 2 to 8 pm — all the event details live here. Finback debuted three different beers — the Finback IPA, the Double Sess Wit and the Puffin Smoked Porter — at…
I had no idea such a place existed in my own borough. I must get there.
A Visit to Ridgewood Reservoir and Highland Park, Bird Heaveni always love it a little bit when i have to drive down the JRP, it's downright bucolic in places! of course, the second anything unusual happens it becomes a parking lot but it's too bad the attention to aesthetics were the first thing to go in later highway designs.
How the Jackie Robinson Parkway Got Its NameThanks for the history lesson and great information.. Good no the history of our neighborhood
Queenswalk: The Story of Glendale’s John Siney House, Part TwoSo sade : ( : ( : (
Guide to cemeteries in Queens