Do you really want S&M to flavor your kids' medicine??


This house is on the northwest corner of 36th (once Lamartine) Avenue and Bell Boulevard (once Avenue).


The 7 line 46th Street station, seen heading east on Queens Boulevard.


Heading north into Queens on Greenpoint Avenue, City View Inn is on the left and the 1885 St. Raphael Roman Catholic Church is on the right, behind Calvary Cemetery. The inn started life as Public School (P.S.) 80 around 1900 and has gone through numerous uses since. This area of Queens was the tiny town of Blissville until right around then.


In case you didn't recognize these buildings, they are the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings in Manhattan, bracketing the skyline to the left and right as I look west on 49th Avenue at Skillman Avenue. The ESB spire is extra-beefy due to the number of broadcast antennae and the need to stay upright under the weight of King Kong.


Continuing west, the old Paragon building is on the southeast corner of 49th Avenue and 21st Street.


I tried to find any evidence that this chimney predates the Ravenswood Houses, which were built in 1951 at 21st Street and 35th Avenue. It's a different color brick and its location is striking, but it appears to be connected to the powerplant for the houses. If it was kept from a former use as a smokestack and reused for communications (see the top) and venting, I would love to hear about it.


Different views of this iconic Long Island City sign, from Manhattan and then Roosevelt Island.


The Jacob Riis Bathhouse can be found in the eponymous park at the western dead-end of Rockaway Beach Boulevard. Constructed in 1932 at the height of the Art Deco movement, it was renovated during the 2000s but the restoration was not completed.


The Trans-World Flight Center (Terminal 5) at JFK International Airport is one of the most famous terminals in the world thanks to its Eero Saarinen-designed architecture (he is known at my alma mater for designing the MIT Chapel). Although it had sat unused since TWA died in 2001, it is now part of a hotel in conjunction with a new combined Terminal 5-6 and once again gets to be seen from the inside as well as the outside. The first photo predates that renovation, and the others show it ready for action in 2013.

Shea Stadium and World's Fair Pavilion

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