Alsop Family

From around 1640 to 1740, the Alsop family owned a large tobacco farm where Calvary Cemetery now stands. The family ...
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Blissville: A Memoir by Rebecca Cooney

Blissville: A memoir by Rebecca Cooney, Installment 1 of a 12 part series Manhattan is a backdrop to my small ...
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Radio Free Blissville Short

Short narrative about a pirate radio cult. The story concerns a pirate radio cult that operates in post-future Brooklyn from ...
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Forgotten NY – Blissville and Laurel Hill Article from 2005

In the Shadow of the Empire - Blissville and Laurel Hill I SERIOUSLY doubt that half of any New York City ...
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1936 Development Map of Flushing Meadow Park

Click on map for high resolution depending on screen size. Map is 150 dpi ...
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World’s Fair Grounds and Flushing Meadows Development

These are pictures of Corona Queens and Flushing Meadows developments by Robert Moses for the World's Fair of 1939. The ...
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BoweryBoyHistory – The Ghost with the Red Hair: Two Hauntings in Long Island City

From Sandra West, East Jewett.   Long Island City is really a confederation of small villages and hamlets along the northwestern ...
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Civility in a Hyperpartisan Era

Civility in a Hyperpartisan Era WNYC Radio: Andrew Reiner, who teaches in the Honors College and English department at Towson University ...
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Sunnyside Queens

Just a stone's throw away from Blissville lies Sunnyside, a New York City neighborhood with an equally pleasant name. Sunnyside ...
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Bliss Grocery

Evidence of the Bliss Grocery on Northern Boulevard in Queens. Sent in by Lenox who's only comment was:  Nirvana in ...
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