Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Noir Image of the Week

























Ditmars Terminal, RR Line, Astoria, Queens, NYC cica 1960s 

6 comments:

  1. Really dig the old LIC and Astoria images. Do you live in the area? You post many photos from here and since I'm a fourth generation Astoria native these images of the past are compelling.

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  2. My mother was actually born in a house that my grandfather built on a hill on the Old Bowery Bay Road. Later the new street grid placed the house on the block between 49th St. and Hazen St. East-West and between Ditmars and 21st Avenue, North-South. So it ended up on 49th St. When the put 49th Street in they cut the grade so my grandfather had to dig another basement under the original basement so the original became the first floor. I was born at Astoria General, and grew up in Astoria on 49th St.

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  3. I would love to see what other photos you have of Astoria from the past.
    It's funny how this was a neighbourhood that families left throughout the past 40 years and now it's become the new hot place to move to.

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  4. I'll be putting more on here, I moved to Montana in '72 and lived there for 24 years so I'll alternate between NY and the West.

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  6. I also grew up near there in the early 60s- a bit past your mother's house on 77th and Ditmars and love the old Astoria images. I would love to get a copy of the old photo of the Ditmars station (before they morphed it into the N). Is it accessible anywhere?

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