Here’s What Ten Miles Of Big Map Looks Like

Posted: May 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Queens

On January 4, 2010 I walked close to ten miles in the Bayside and Whitestone neighborhoods of Queens*.

Started by cutting through Lippmann Arcade to board a bus (can’t remember which one, but it was probably the Q13) out to the edge of Bayside.

Began the first leg by continuing the great Northern Boulevard project through Bayside**:

Then a stop at Oakland Lake to check it out during the winter:

P.S. 203 is an example of that 1960s(?)-style of Board of Education architecture:

Then up Bell Boulevard through Bayside Hills up to Northern Boulevard:

Bell Boulevard’s commercial stretch and beyond:

Bell Boulevard through Bay Terrace:

Following a short bus ride over to the eastern edge of Beechhurst, I visited LeHavre On The Water, one the builders of which was William Levitt, whose brother Alfred built Levittown:

Down 154th Street on the western edge of Beechhurst:

Down 14th Road in Whitestone:

A stop at the awesomely fanciful St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, the church the AIA Guide to New York City called a “psychedelic fantasy”:

Up 150th Street through Whitestone, that neighborhood’s main commercial strip:

A swing by Engine 295/Ladder 144 over on 149th Street, which is a classic New York City firehouse:

Back over on 14th Avenue:

*We don’t usually bother mapping out the routes but my feet were sore for days afterward so I was curious.

**Earlier installments included Northern Boulevard in Corona, Northern Boulevard in Murray Hill and Northern Boulevard in Auburndale.