In June ’11, I wrote about one of my favorite “haunted house”-like properties in New York City, a dilapidated yet once beautiful Victorian located at 3103 37th Avenue in Queens:
Gone forever:
Several readers sent me this article in the Queens Gazette about its recent demise. Can’t wait to see what goes up in its place.
You can read my original post here. It was probably beyond saving at that point, but then, greater miracles have happened.
-SCOUT
One of the weirdest little holdovers of a bygone Times Square can be found at 42nd Street and 9th Avenue, where a collection of four-story apartment buildings sit nestled in the shadow of the neighboring skyscrapers.
Note: Chinatown Fair closed for good about two weeks after I posted this article. It’s in Chinatown, and it’s best to visit late on a Friday or Saturday night. From Canal Street, head south on Bowery past Chatham Square… …and turn right onto the dimly lit, deserted Mott Street. It’s at #8 Mott, though you’ll…
Pretty decent view to have from your office desk… -SCOUT
One of my favorite structures in New York City is the little abandoned building under the 59th Street Bridge.
Spotted next to the Queensboro Bridge: Boring building… …Rock star door handles: Sort of makes up for it. -SCOUT
Cypress Hills Street might as well be called the Graveyard Highway. A wide, four-lane thruway located in Glendale, Queens, it cuts through The Cemetery Belt – a sprawling collection of cemeteries established after the State Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847 forbade the creation of any new cemeteries in Manhattan. I was out there recently to…
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Your last two posts have really reminded me of how many things I take for granted in the city. Until I read this post, I never realized that the abandoned falling apart house that I passed every day on the subway was the same one you had posted about not even two weeks before I moved to Astoria. And until your last post, it barely phased me that there were townhouses on 6th Avenue, right across the street from my office. Thank you for making me take another look at the things around me.
Ugh. Ouch.
Oy! Did anyone mention the horrible grammar in that “article”? Razed…not raised. It is a shame about the building, but sometimes they do have to come down.
One of the pics in the old post showed what looked like holes in the roof, and that’s a real death knell to these old houses. Water -> Rot -> Unsalvageable.
I wonder why kids today can’t write or spell? It’s because they read all these mistakes in their local paper. The correct word is RAZED, not RAISED. What kind of newspaper is this? And it should read IT not I in the last sentence. And the damned house was not on 30th Avenue! It was closer to 36th Avenue!!!
Probably going to be a parking lot for the Enterprise that was behind it.
I can tell you what’s going up there in its place… an Arby’s or one of those shit box light brick rectangles with garish shiny balconies you see everywhere these days.
I used to love passing this place on the train. Thanks for keeping it alive, if only on the internet.
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