A Street in Your Town
In Queens, there are worlds within worlds. Needing exercise, I took a different route to the subway in Astoria one day and turned right on Broadway onto 37th St. I knew about 37th St. from its role in world industrial history (see below for that) but wasn’t prepared for the variety of architecture in the single block between Broadway and 34th Ave.. Much of Astoria features blocks of apartment buildings, handsomely constructed, but seemingly turned out by photocopier. Some blocks, though, betray their age... Читать дальше...