I stole this photo from Splitting Hairs in Forest Hills. Just wanted to say I never realized how cool this building was before I saw it on their blog.
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- DOB damage control
- Building up and bringing down Briarwood
- Fencing in Astoria
- Law to make contractors show worker status
- The great Queens mosaic on Jamaica Avenue
- Wake for cemetery caretaker's house
- DOB wind advisory
- Adios a Los Estados Unidos
- Open letter to Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr.
- Now here's a house!
- Pete wants to secede from New York State
- Big and Rich = oversized and cheap
- Pullout without penalty
- Joe vs. Serf (and Albert): The battle begins
- Talented go-getters at borough hall?
- Hub snub
- Blackwell's Island 1903
- Cool post office
- What's left of the real College Point
- Bloomberg has hired the Parkside Group
- This is how pols-turned-lobbyists do it
- Sounds like a great place for luxury condos
- Losing an important part of our history
- Stop the Q45!
- Pedicabbers win in court
- Restoring the NYS Pavilion Texaco Map
- Tall fences make bad neighbors
- No Day Care Center
- Falling Star
- Hope you enjoyed your stay in Queens
- Focus on the AIA zoning text amendments
- A message from the MTA
- Best Buy not the best choice
- Bless this Father, for he hath sinned
- Under the Triborough Bridge
- Giants fan dyes dog blue
- Brian says bye-bye
- Queens fairytale by way of Atlantic City
- Why Rudy's losing
- The rising Queens water table
- Astoria becoming a shantytown
- Where To Go?
- Chappetto Square
- Barbara's latest words of wisdom
- Isn't it ironic?
- Dorm town
- Next on the agenda: congestion parking!
- Bloomie: Do as I say, not as I do
- Safety nets save lives
- Tommy and Scott's Fresh Meadows Fiasco
- Pinky clear for now, re-indictment looms
- Beginning of the end for St. Saviour's
- The G Spot returns
- Who needs CraigsList?
- Run down dog run is a real dog
- Developers pour $$ into campaigns
- Hubcap crap
- Return to the Court of Crap
- Parks denies own toxic turf memo
- The great Queens mosaic in Jamaica
- RFK, go away
- Housing slump affects Gary's bottom line
- Preservation Vision: NYC has been launched
- To sit or not to sit
- Queens West's affordable housing takes a hike
- City refers homeless to illegal dwellings
- More hipsters kicked to the curb
- Crowley's war chest
- St. Paul's Woodside may be demolished
- Fire response time up in Queens
- Admirals Row demo delay
- Astoria pool looks very uncool
- Guess the landmark
- Slow as molasses in January
- DOB commissioner breaks own policy
- Beware of house-flippers
- Jim on film
- Stringer & Yassky want more development
- A crap above in Astoria
- Dutch Kills development opposition
- High-rise accidents on the rise
- SRO fire claims 3 lives in Brooklyn
- Wake up, Senator
- Javits Center plans shrunk
- Katz a Kash Kow
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- Temple will become mosque
- Don't Support Illegal Aliens
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- How's this for a neighborhood profile?
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11 comments:
Indeed, but the service inside still stinks. Long lines any given hour on any given day.
Really, Crappie? Hmm, that's a surprise.
It is in a nice location across the street from MacDonald Park along with a wide, clean sidewalk. I kind of wish they hadn't ripped out the hedge that used to be in front of it... Maybe that's why you never noticed it?
I had seen the building many times, just not from this perspective. I'm not one to hang out at MacDonald Park.
Not to worry.....
another architectural treasure
that'll be here today and gone tomorrow
if Melinda Katz and any of her real estate friends
have any designs on developing this site!
Landmark it.....you say ?
With the likes of Tierney & Betts at the LPC
it's not likely to happen very soon.
Oh......
maybe they'll save the art deco sculpture.
interesting bas relief. What's it of?
This is a prime target awaiting higher density building.
This is Forest Hills' only building on the National Register of Historic Places:
http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/default.asp
Being on the National Register doesn't mean squat
when it comes to protecting a building or a site.
The whole interior and site
of the RKO Keith's theater in Flushing
is still listed on the Register.
And all that remains is a portion of its interior
(ticket lobby & grand foyer)
because THAT is a designated NYC landmark.
This is a beautiful building that I remember well from my childhood in FH in the 1960s. I hope it doesn't fall victim to crappification.
For a photo of this PO under construction in the 1930s (as well as many other remarkable photos of pre-crap Queens), visit www.queenspix.com.
Queenspix.com is a stupid a** site, illegally claiming copyrights on photos that are in the public domain and offering them up for sale.
Being that it's on the National Register of Historic Places, does make the case more solid for acquiring landmark status. It would be a worthwhile test of a government. In this case, the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Some shrubbery should be replanted, but not as high to detract from this World's Fair pavilion-inspired building.
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