Forgotten NY: Queens Blvd
11/25/04
Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Jamaica, Queens
Today's guest photographer: Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY.
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Ah, the Boulevard of Death. I know it well. Nice shots.
Posted by: Shelly at November 25, 2004 12:19 PM
Viewed these while visiting family and had to share. Amazing cloud shot over Forest Hills etc. The Boulevard of Death sign impressed for the obvious reason. Happy Turkey Day Kevin, Mike and everyone else! Sharing the photolog has been a lot of fun!
Posted by: Larry at November 25, 2004 01:14 PM
Kind of a theme of objects looming! I loved the block w/ the water tower.
Posted by: Frank at November 25, 2004 02:33 PM
Nice shots, Kevin. LeFrak for President.
PS: Who was LeFrak?
Posted by: Eliot at November 26, 2004 07:31 PM
Sam Lefrak developed the buildings in the 50s and 60s.
In the 1980s, he changed the spelling to LeFrak, for reasons known only to him...
Posted by: Kevin Walsh at November 28, 2004 12:05 AM
After I posted the previous message, my mom commented that yeeeeears ago she almost bought the second or third house on the right in the water tower picture! I knew some of these pics might jog a memory with her, but that was too much!!!
Posted by: mrgrooism at November 28, 2004 12:17 AM
The very real and unforgiving depiction of Queens is almost embarrassing.
Nice shots, especially the redeeming sunset pic.
Posted by: Shareen at November 28, 2004 10:39 AM
I must say a pair of bulding look like soviet architectural ouvres! I didn't know you had such ugly stuff in NY :-)
Posted by: stef at November 29, 2004 09:37 AM
Hey, I posted 'em because I LIKE 'em.
I am a plebeian and a philistine. The foodienyc. guy in gothamist and I had a lengthy online argument because I believe it's ridiculous to show gourmet food items with, like, a tablespoon's worth of food plopped in the middle of a frisbee-sized plate.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Posted by: Kevin Walsh at November 30, 2004 11:42 PM
Thnx for the photos,I was a little girl when they built LeFrak city. It changed the area and added to the number of cars parked alomg Queens blvd.It became "the place to live". I looked @ the street with the watertower thinking that those people will be locked into their neoghborhood when a big snowstorm hits. Don't miss that,now living in northern California
Posted by: katherine ruff at December 6, 2004 06:13 PM
The clock tower shot reminds me of Back to the Future =) There is something incredibly appealing about the water tower shot, I can't put my finger on it.....but it's great!
Posted by: Crystal at December 9, 2004 07:57 PM
The 80's was back when the President was buying gold plate for the Whitehouse, and such.. Lefrak became LeFrak in a move that recalled French Royal ancestry. I don't know if anybody but he realized that, but then whoever he was trying to impress must have. Of course anyone he would have wanted to impress with such a thing would only have laughed at him for it, anyway. Didn't he have a wife who also did something? (Lord, I hadn't realized how long ago this all was!)
Posted by: e at February 16, 2005 06:14 PM
I understand they finally bulldozed that little house on the corner on Macys. I have been back many times, but not to that corner. Used to eat a lot of burgers at the White Castle accross the street.
Posted by: Dan G at July 27, 2005 03:01 PM
when i see NY, i'm thinking Nicole
i missed her alot
she's my kind
I will meet her someday
Posted by: WAY,Sineenad at June 21, 2006 05:49 AM
I LOVE NEW YORK CITY
I WILL LIVE THERE SOON
UNTILL MY DYING DAY
_GOD BLESS AMERICA_
I LOVE "USA"