Maspeth Tour
A cycling route starting in Long Island City, New York, United States of America.
Overview
About this route
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
Route highlights
Points of interest along the route
Point of interest after 1.5 km
Metropolitan Oval amazing view! lovely soccer field.
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
Point of interest after 5.9 km
Highest point in Mt Olivet
Point of interest after 6.7 km
Japanese Cemetery marker
Point of interest after 7 km
LOOK AT THAT VIEW!
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
Point of interest after 9.1 km
namesake Maspeth High School
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
Point of interest after 9.4 km
Sewer lid here with zodiac symbols!
Point of interest after 10.1 km
Maspeches 'coin' marker
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!
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.
Point of interest after 12 km
Queens Boulevard is the northern edge of the Maspeth boundary
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
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
Point of interest after 13.8 km
Third Cavalry
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
Point of interest after 14 km
Second Cavalry
Point of interest after 14.4 km
Fourth Cavalry
Point of interest after 14.4 km
First Cavalry
Point of interest after 15 km
Clinton Diner aka "the Goodfellas Diner" - this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOaV06ruMqg
Point of interest after 16.4 km
Transfiguration Roman Catholic (Lithuanian)
Point of interest after 16.9 km
Holy Roman Cross (Polish)
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