The highly idiosyncratic housing styles of Queens! The borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. Over a million foreign-born residents call it home, yet its houses are relatively unknown.  This first comprehensive publication features over two-hundred images of highly idiosyncratic residential structures that characterize the global building aesthetic of… Read More »All the Queens Houses: the highly idiosyncratic housing styles of Queens

Greater Astoria Historical Society Holiday Party  Please join us for our annual ‘Tis the Season’ Virtual Holiday Party for fun and good conversation Special Guest:  Tom Wilk Founder of Wilk Apiaries Founder of the Queens Beekeepers Guild to help beekeepers in Queens Certified Master Beekeeper: Cornell University's Dyce Labs for Honey Bee Studies. Long Island/New… Read More »An Evening with Tom Wilk – Master Beekeeper

Walk Through Ravenswood w/ FNY & GAHS 12th Street looking north between 37th and 36th Avenues (c. 1910) There are many layers of Ravenswood ... ... a past community of mansions, industry, and waterfront parks. Join Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY as he peels back the layers of this old village in Long Island City.… Read More »Walk Through Ravenswood (Astoria, Qns.)

Black History Month with Forgotten NY Weeksville Brooklyn There is much to see of Black History ... . . . ... but streets, parks, and buildings that are renamed for deserving individuals they often lack signage –  and their stories remain all but unknown. This lecture embraces a Forgotten-NY goal: Bring Gotham's hidden Black History… Read More »Forgotten NY – Black History Month with Sergey Kadinsky

Virtual Lecture - Wednesday, March 30th at 7 PM View of Bridge Construction from Blackwells (Roosevelt) Island Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is the longest bridge spanning the East River. The Queensboro Bridge documents the creation of this cultural icon and its contributions to the history of New York. With Bob Singleton, Executive Director… Read More »The 113th Anniversary of the Opening of the Queensboro Bridge

"April is National Poerty Month" MONDAY APRIL 25 @ 6:30 PM! Join us for our virtual reading, featuring Maria Lisella, Olena Jennings & Ama Birch!  + a poetry open mic!! To Register to Attend:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/314975228387 If you wish to read in the open mic portion Please register for the event using the link above AND ... Send… Read More »GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL 6TH ANNUAL POETRY READING!

"Little Ukraine" Virtual Tour + UKRAINE fundraiser We are partnering with the New York City Tour Guide Slava Shpigel for a virtual tour of the Ukrainian Village in Lower Manhattan PLEASE NOTE: All donations (what you wish) from this event will go to Razom for Ukraine (https://razomforukraine.org/ ), an organization delivering tactical medical items and hospital… Read More »PLEASE JOIN US TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF WAR TORN UKRAINE!

Host of Janes Walk New York City 2020 Presents: THE LEGENDARY STEINWAY MANSION! A virtual tour with Robert Singleton Executive Director, Greater Astoria Historical Society  & Public Factory Tour Guide, Steinway & Sons A RARE INSIDER'S TOUR OF A LANDMARK  THAT HAS BEEN CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR DECADES!    SATURDAY May 7, 2022 11:00 am… Read More »JANES WALK 2022: THE STEINWAY MANSION!

JOIN JUDY BIRDY! PRESIDENT OF THE ROOSELVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY On a Virtual Tour! "ROOSEVELT ISLAND END TO END" Roosevelt Island vastly changed over the years while our community developed Our six landmarks remain, all beautifully restored Our parks have been expanded and the FDR Four Freedoms Park graces the Southern tip. The landmark lighthouse… Read More »ROOSEVELT ISLAND: END TO END!

WITH Bob Singleton, Executive Director of the Greater Astoria Historical Society! THE CRADLE OF CREATIVITY: a Virtual Tour! In this community: the document proclaiming American Independence was first read on our Nations's soil, the Inland Empire (as the called the great center of the continent) was linked to the Empire City, the name of one… Read More »LONG ISLAND CITY: CRADLE OF CREATIVITY

  LONG ISLAND CITY FROM THE PAGES OF THE LONG ISLAND JOURNAL ! Job Press Room at the Newspaper LONG ISLAND CITY IN 1896! WITH Bob Singleton, Executive Director of the Greater Astoria Historical Society!            TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM  TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT:… Read More »THE LONG ISLAND JOURNAL: The Newspaper of Record for old Long Island City!

  A STUDY OF LONG ISLAND CITY'S POST INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE ~ AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR CITY'S LANDSCAPE ... NATHAN KENSINGER  PHOTOGRAPHER - FILMAKER - JOURNALIST The first part of this program will be a short documentary film that he co-directed with Nate Dorr about Hunter's Point South in 2015 titled Reclaimed Ground. This piece… Read More »A Study of Long Island City’s Post Industrial Landscape!