New York City views and more.. Welcome to my channel.. My plan is to share with you interesting sights and information about Queens.. Though my main focus will be on Queens.. I may also visit and share other places of interest in different boroughs and occasionally discuss off topic subjects..
Always such a sad day. My dad was a construction supervisor in Brooklyn. One of his men lost their mother. She had escaped the towers but was hit by fallen debris while running away from the falling buildings. He received some of the settlement money and bought a nice house in Todt Hill, Staten Island but I'm sure he'd rather have his mother back. My dad went to the company owner and said, Paulie lost his mother this week. Can I pay him? And the company owner allowed him to issue the paycheck to the son.
Wow, thanks for sharing Angie..Yes, a sad day indeed.. Hard to believe it was 23 years ago.. There are young adults now in 2024 that weren't even born when 9/11 happened..
The image is from the 1950s since the United Nations complex was built in the early 1950s and it is good that it is now in New York City rather than San Francisco in California.
I went on a class trip to the United Nations when I was in the 3rd grade.. It was somewhat interesting.. I was a little too young to really take it all in and understand it though.. Thanks for watching and sharing!!!
This wasn't anything that I knew first hand, but I found this picture on the New York Public Library website. The image is from 1954. In fact if you find it on the NYPL site, you can enlarge the image tenfold where you can see tiny details in the distance. For example there are 23 cars in this photo if you can believe it, lol. Now I am off to look at a recent map, you are giving me project to do ;)
1954 sounds more believable.. The tittle on this photo also said the hunters point subway station.. I didn't even mention that in the video because to the best of my knowledge I don't think those tracks in the photo were ever a part of the NYC subway system, though I could be wrong.. Wow, 23 cars, that's something I didn't even catch.. I like these nostalgic photos.. Thanks for sharing that info, I appreciate it.. It helps make the comment section more interesting..
Staten Island..... not really New York though, is it 🤣 I'm a bit ashamed to admit but I have hardly ever been to the Bronx. I mean I have been there of course over the years, but my visits have been sparse. I guess without a car it is quite a hike to get there. When I worked in group homes we would take the residents there once or twice a year. Driven through Staten Island but never set foot in the place, but like I said, it isn't really NY anyway, is it? 😁😄
Yes, I always thought of Staten Island as a far away place.. It almost seems more like a part of New Jersey because of where its located.. I don't go up to the Bronx a whole lot either.. I don't really have any reason to be up there. My whole world is right here in Queens.. I do know Brooklyn pretty well, especially the northeastern sections near the border Of Queens, all the same neighborhoods you're familiar with, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint.. However I don't really know southern Brooklyn all that well, down by like Coney Island, Bensonhurst, and Bay Ridge..
Kind of seems that way.. Staten Island almost seems like it should be a part of New Jersey because of where its located.. I don't go up to the Bronx a whole lot either.. I really have no reason to be up there.. My whole world is Queens.. But being so close to Brooklyn I almost feel as if Brooklyn is a part of my hometown area.. And I'm really not a big Manhattan person, that's just a little too hustling and bustling for me.. i like having some elbow room.. Queens is just the perfect borough for me, it's plenty urban enough but there are still quite places to get away from all the madness
I never knew queens was so densely populated and we shared so much borders with Brooklyn and long Island, that was verry interesting, thanks again for a great presentation.
Lmao, That's for sure!!! That was at the parking lot of Western Beef.. With the price of food I don't know who would give food away to the birds.. By the way I think I'm done with Western Beef forever.. $6.59 for a dozen eggs, 5 bucks for a gallon of milk.. 8 dollars for a box of special K cereal are they serious??? That's price gouging..
I have bars like that on all of my apartment windows, which did surprise me being that the house was built in the early 50's. Unfortunately they are a real pain to run an AC from.
There is nice part of Cypress Hills Brooklyn with big beautiful mansions, it's kind of in a tucked away place few people know about.. It's near the end of the Jackie Robinson, near Highland park, kind of like where the borders of Bushwick, Cypress Hills and East NY all meet, it's an awesome sight, but every house just has bars covering all the windows.. I meant to do a video over there when I had my car
That's called an O'Brien fire alarm box. They used to have an orange lamp above them at night to alert the public where the boxes were. The lamps are almost entirely removed now, but there is one a block or two away from me that still has the orange lamp. It doesn't work, but I took a short of it regardless to use at a later date.
This style still has the old fashion lever pull, some of the other fire boxes have the more modern system in place.. I do remember seeing that video where you were explaining about the orange lights up above..
Call the cops and have them see if they can find finger prints or some kind of clue as to who the perpetrator was maybe he dropped his wallet or cellphone in the bushes and the cops can identify him and lock him up. File a police report ASAP🚨🚨🚨🚁🚁🚁
It could be heading to Kennedy airport also. There in the same direction and proximity Newark airport is also in line with laguardia also just a stone throw away 🇺🇲🇺🇲
No, you're not correct about that.. Kennedy is all the way on the southern end of Queens, many miles away and in a completely different direction from where this plane was going. This plane was on its way to LaGuardia for sure.
A lot of times people will just go back there to see what is there. I mean if you are looking to take something you ain't going to know what is back there until you take a look :) Funny thing though, I have lived here a few blocks away from you for 7 years, and our garden shed has been unlocked the entire time. Like you said though, what are they going to do with a hose pipe or a few garden tools?
Crazy stuff.. Another funny clue is I found 2 beer cans out in the yard way in the back near some bushes a few hours ago that is not a brand that me or anyone in this household drinks. Maybe someone just thought it would be a nice place to hangout and relax, at least until they pissed off my dog anyway 😂
What you are saying is highly unlikely and ridiculous, he should make a police report asap and press charges on whoever was trespassing on his property 🚨🚨🚨🚁🚁🚁🚁
Do you have motion activated lights or big flood lights? I'd install those and definitely file a report with the police. Times are getting harder and people are getting desperate. Atta boy, Gus!!!!! God used him to save you 😊 -Angie
No, nothing like that.. It's as dark as can be out there except for a few small solar lights that don't give off much light at all.. That is definitely something to consider though.. Yes, we all do feel safer around here with Gus.. Thanks Angie!
Yeah, definitely get some big bright lights!! Amazon has some good solar ones. I live in a rural area now but I have them and I have those security mirrors beyond the side gate to my house so no one can sneak up on me by hiding behind the gate. I have a baby so I'm not taking any chances. @QueensNativeNYC
Thank heavens you and gus are okay you should file a police report ard request police protection and have the cops steaking out your house every night until they catch up with the prowler and put him behind bars.
if you didn't see anyone than, it must have been an alley cat or racoon or a opossumback there. Oi doubt verry much if it was a prowleror a home invader in your yard, did you ask your next door neighborsif they seen or heardanything???? @QueensNativeNYC 2:18
Thank God nothing happened to you or your house because Gus your dog was watching over you and protecting you! I love all of your videos of Queens New York.
How do you sleep at nights with firetrucks,ambulance, and cop car sirens blasting all the time , Maspeth is turning into a real high crime noisey ghetto 😢
Seven eleven is price gouging all there items especially the ice-cream and beer, who cares if they get robbed, there robbing working people left and right with there outrageous prices for everything in the store???
Funniest thing I heard, though I guess it isn't that funny, but the 7-11 a few steps away had a lock on the ice cream fridge. I thought it was unusual so I asked them why, and they said someone had come in and loaded up a bag of every tub on the shelf 😁 Don't know why but I found that funny. When you think about it though, they just go to deli source, sell the ice cream for $3 a tub and everyone makes out. I believe that 7-11 was also robbed at gunpoint in the last year or so, right?
There have actually been some pretty serious crimes that happened in Maspeth over the years.. My Father was mugged in Maspeth on Flushing ave in the 80's at gunpoint in the parking lot dunkin donuts on Flushing ave while he was getting back into his car.. They got 600 bucks in cash off him.. He had just gotten paid from work and he broke a 100 dollar bill in the dunkin donuts and they must have been watching him.. The first year we moved into Maspeth the jewelry store on Fresh Pond around the block got held up and the own per was shot 3 times in the chest but he did survive.. And there were multiple stores in Fresh pond that were held up.. Where Boston Market was over there on Metro there used to be a Roy Rogers and that got held up in the 90's we and even more recently that laundry mat over there on Fresh Pond was held up, that was only about a year ago, that never even made the news or anything.. Also numerous petty crimes, I had cars that were broken into, somebody tried to break into our house once but we had a dog that chased him out..😂 My father had his catalytic converter robbed from his car last year right there near the abandoned Italian resturaunt.. I could go on and on but I don't want drag this out too long.. However I still consider it a safe neighborhood.. Most of these things have happened over a period of many years and for the most part its still fairly safe here..
Yes you have to be careful out there later at night you may run into a night prowler or a cat burglar or a peeping tom. Or a sicko in a overcoat flashing his private parts at you.
It's actually nice out tonight, isn't it? That bread van takes me back. The first job I ever had was working the night shift in a bakery, just a 3 man team. 16 years old working nights, I don't even know if it was legal, lol.
That's cool.. You were already working hard at 16.. My first job was the working at the 7/11 on Queens blvd in Forest Hills.. I was only 16 when I was working there.. I got fired after 3 months 😂
@@QueensNativeNYC Yeah, the system was different in the UK back in the 70s. You would go to the equivalent of high school until you were 16 and then there were two choices. If you were smart enough you could take "A" levels for two years, or, for most of us, you would join the work force at 16. It changed in 2015 when it was raised to 18.
My grandmother was from Liverpool.. I'm pretty sure I remember her telling me that she was done with school by age 14 after the 8th grade.. She still did ok for herself though.. When she got divorced she landed a pretty decent job with an insurance company In Manhattan..
The city bikes program is a big flop, most of them bikes get stolen by thugs and dumped in a dark and desolate back alley in the bowles of Brooklyn and the bronx,
Yep, it's just past 3am now and I am wide awake :) I think we were relatively lucky with the rain, it seemed like the lightning was off in the distance for us, so probably north of us got it worse. I'll be really honest, I have no idea why some developer hasn't built a multi story car park in any given area. Surely with a hundred monthly rentals they could make a killing. A hundred cars with a $250 monthly rental fee, that's 25K a month.
I'm still up too.. I'm a real night owl.. A parking garage would be a great idea.. I'm sure there are some local residents that would be willing to pay the 250 a month.. Parking around here can be just awful, especially after 7 PM when everybody is home from work.. When I had my car I would often just park up near the cemetery at night, I was almost always guaranteed a spot up there.. On the few occasions when I couldn't find a spot up there at night I would really be in a mess, sometimes I would just have to park in front of a fire hydrant and hope like hell I didn't get a ticket.. I did get away with it the few times I did..
The biggest problem I see with the program is that it is too darn hot in the summer, and too darn cold in the winter. Otherwise I think that it would be really successful. As it is though, I think it will stick around, but only as an alternative mode of transport.
Yes, those bikes definitely have some drawbacks.. I don't think Citi Bikes are making a big hit in this area.. There are a few stations in the backs streets of Maspeth off the beating path that never seem to get any renters at all using the bikes..
