Pirates, glue factories, and mob graves: Blissville is Queens's dumping ground

… Blissville a slice of Long Island City bordered by Calvary Cemetery the Long Island Expressway and Newtown Creek is a roughhewn … 2015 to petition for a public park in the area he asked how many people in the room had heard of Blissville Only one …

By Marjorie Cohen |November 14, 2017 - 9:00AM
Chester Court: A cul-de-sac in Brooklyn that feels like the U.K.'s Cotswolds

… Peter J Collins was a man with a housing plan When in the early 20th century he designed and built Chester Court a … School of Architecture Planning and Preservation  By 1911 when Collins started building the Brooklyn Bridge … train tracks now part of the B and Q subway line Collins claimed in his ads that Chester Court was the most …

By Lucy Cohen Blatter |January 18, 2017 - 8:59AM