Not sure where exactly this was but it's a pretty sure bet that the landscape there has changed dramatically.
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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
- Water's edge crap
- Crap above in Carroll Gardens
- Congestion pricing, emphasis on the con
- Junction-gate?
- Temple will become mosque
- Don't Support Illegal Aliens
- Dialycrap
- How's this for a neighborhood profile?
- Bribes for green cards
- Bloomie mentions Tweed in speech
- Bedbug meeting date set
- A letter from Elizabeth Crowley
- Nazli opens mouth, crap flows out
- Ackerman's double standard
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13 comments:
Rodman Street was the old name for College Point Boulevard between Mount Hebron Cemetery and the Botanical Garden. It was named after the Rodman family, which owned land here from the colonial times until the early 20th century.
The entrance to Flushing Meadows on College Point Boulevard is called the Rodman Gate.
and when the contractors get their hands on it it will be called "Queens Crap Gate"........................................
Flushing is now an appropriate name for the area.
there was a house on the intersection of saull st and franklin ave, it was said to be one of the oldest in flushing, it was someone's mansion back in the 1800s, and it was also a school house, later on, and all the property surrounding it was apple trees, it was an amazing house like the one in the picture, well needless to say there's a parking lot there now.
There was probably a Native American village there before this house and I bet they thought this Rodman St. house was crap. Change happens . . . deal with it or get out of the way.
j. watts: you aesthetically prefer a Beringian's tipi or mud-house to this exquisite pictured architecture?
I wish I lived back then.
My cousin John Liu and I ,
could have partnered up and bought
a lot of property like this to develop.
This site is totally underutilized !
That attitude doesn't sound like the "j.watts" I know......
If that is the real "j.watts" posting......
he served his community well beyond the call of duty trying to prevent Flushing from becoming a dump.
Mr. Halleran
(prominent flushing realtor of his day)
would have proudly proclaimed with his
famous slogan,
"So this is Flushing"! (wow)
Today he would have amended it to,
"So THIS is Flushing "? (ugh).
Mr. Halleran's office was right next to the Flushing Armory in what is now the Taiwan Center. I remember his slogan all over Flushing, but two places stand out in my mind. One, on the side of a building at Linden Place, across from his office the other, on top of the building at 162nd Street & Northern Boulevard.
That is a gorgeous house in the photo. There were so many beautiful homes in Flushing. It's hard to believe it's the same place where my family and I lived for so many years.
Now F-LIU-xhing looks like a Huang Kong slum !
This photograph is listed at the NYC Municipal archives as the Queensboro Hill Bowne Farmhouse taken 4.28.1927. The Bown family must have had two homes.
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