
- 9,4 km
- 32 m
- 42 m
- Long Island City, New York, Vereinigte Staaten
Eine Fahrradroute, die in Long Island City, New York, Vereinigte Staaten beginnt.
Übersicht
erzeugt für eine Tour am 2021-10-24 zu ikonischen Sehenswürdigkeiten rund um Maspeth
Oliver Daley hat diese Route als Favorit gespeichert.
Erstellt vor 4 Jahren
Routenqualität
Ruhige Straße
7,3 km
39 %
Straße
3,2 km
17 %
Befestigt
9,8 km
(52 %)
Asphalt
7,3 km
39 %
Beton
2,4 km
13 %
Undefiniert
9 km
48 %
Highlights der Route
Metropolitan Oval amazing view! lovely soccer field.
Caldwell Avenue was a boundary line; between here and Grand Ave (just north), from 69th Place to the east, was originally named Columbusville. 69th Place was originally called "Firth Avenue" - firth is a type of northern isles English estuary
Highest point in Mt Olivet
Japanese Cemetery marker
LOOK AT THAT VIEW!
Maspeth IS America FDNY Fire Station Squad 288 / Hazmat 1 * most victims of any FDNY company on 9/11 * also note Borden Avenue
namesake Maspeth High School
LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, a freight-only railway branch * Also note 57th Avenue - formerly Hempstead Plank Road * Elmhurst Park just beyond tracks; site of former gas storage tanks
Sewer lid here with zodiac symbols!
Maspeches 'coin' marker
if you ever get back here there's an interesting staircase from the high plateau to the valley below. the apartment building to the south must have COMMANDING sunset views!
WHOOPS! Off by a block. Plateau is on 53rd AVE not Road! Oops. Plateau is 40m above sea level.
Queens Boulevard is the northern edge of the Maspeth boundary
NYPD Quartermaster this is the LA Times story that tipped me off to this building's purpose: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-24/keeping-the-nypd-protected-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-a-24-hour-job
DSNY Central Repair facility * Betts Avenue incinerator opened in 1950; used 4 30-ton per hour sledgehammers to obliterate furniture, trees, and other debris before feeding it to incinerators * facility burned its final bag of garbage in 1994
Third Cavalry
1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cavalry cemeteries - most buried bodies of all the cemeteries in the USA, nearly 3 million people * named after Calvary, or Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified
Second Cavalry
First Cavalry
Fourth Cavalry
Clinton Diner aka "the Goodfellas Diner" - this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOaV06ruMqg
Transfiguration Roman Catholic (Lithuanian)
Holy Roman Cross (Polish)
MASPETH: * named for the Mespeatches Native Americans - one of the 13 tribes of Long Island * name means "at the bad waterplace" - not just the Newtown Creek, but all the stagnant, swampy water throughout the area * founded as Maspat in 1640s as part of the "Newtown Patent," it was the first English deed in Queens and the first deed on Long Island
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