Maspeth Tour
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Maspeth Tour

A cycling route starting in Long Island City, New York, United States of America.

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About this route

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created for a tour on 2021-10-24 of iconic sites around Maspeth

3 h 48 min
Duration
18.8 km
Distance
111 m
Ascent
114 m
Descent
5 km/h
Avg. speed
49 m
Avg. speed
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created this 3 years ago

Route highlights

Points of interest along the route

  1. Point of interest after 1.5 km

    Metropolitan Oval amazing view! lovely soccer field.

  2. Point of interest after 4.2 km

    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

  3. Point of interest after 5.9 km

    Highest point in Mt Olivet

  4. Point of interest after 6.7 km

    Japanese Cemetery marker

  5. Point of interest after 7 km

    LOOK AT THAT VIEW!

  6. Point of interest after 8 km

    Maspeth IS America FDNY Fire Station Squad 288 / Hazmat 1 * most victims of any FDNY company on 9/11 * also note Borden Avenue

  7. Point of interest after 9.1 km

    namesake Maspeth High School

  8. Point of interest after 9.1 km

    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

  9. Point of interest after 9.4 km

    Sewer lid here with zodiac symbols!

  10. Point of interest after 10.1 km

    Maspeches 'coin' marker

  11. Point of interest after 10.8 km

    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!

  12. Point of interest after 10.8 km

    WHOOPS! Off by a block. Plateau is on 53rd AVE not Road! Oops. Plateau is 40m above sea level.

  13. Point of interest after 12 km

    Queens Boulevard is the northern edge of the Maspeth boundary

  14. Point of interest after 13.1 km

    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

  15. Point of interest after 13.4 km

    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

  16. Point of interest after 13.8 km

    Third Cavalry

  17. Point of interest after 13.8 km

    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

  18. Point of interest after 14 km

    Second Cavalry

  19. Point of interest after 14.4 km

    Fourth Cavalry

  20. Point of interest after 14.4 km

    First Cavalry

  21. Point of interest after 15 km

    Clinton Diner aka "the Goodfellas Diner" - this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOaV06ruMqg

  22. Point of interest after 16.4 km

    Transfiguration Roman Catholic (Lithuanian)

  23. Point of interest after 16.9 km

    Holy Roman Cross (Polish)

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