Red fire alarm boxes (usually they're red), also known as manual call points or break-glass call points, are small boxes mounted on walls that contain buttons or levers to manually trigger the fire alarm. They were typically installed on street corners in New York City before the availability of telephones and allowed people to notify the fire department of a fire. Many of these boxes have been in the streets for over a century.

The boxes are cylinder-like and have an inside compartment for calling the fire department. Some of the older models incorporate art, history, and American invention and engineering. For example, the ornate V.F. (Valentine Fendrich) models from 1913, 1921, and 1931 exhibit Beaux Arts meets Art Nouveau vine-like lacework, topped by a torch.

John S. Colgan, a Woodside resident and volunteer, has restored historic cast-iron fire alarm box pedestals for over a decade. He is nicknamed the "Fire Alarm Box Guy".

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UBB = Unending Building Boom

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New Rendering Revealed For 29-15 40th Road in Long Island City, Queens

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A new rendering has been revealed for 29-15 40th Road, an upcoming 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Few details have been made public about the project, which is being designed by Fogarty Finger Architects and developed by SB Development, which also acquired the adjacent lot at 29-13 40th Road for $8.7 million last fall.

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That long time closed and now dilapidated old diner still standing on the corner. I'm waiting on it to completely collapse

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31-28 Northern Blvd / Before & After Construction

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They're constructing yet another public storage building on Northern Blvd. As for the other two, I have never seen anyone, ever, go inside either one. And I walk past this area twice per day.

Those hideous balconies. Oy

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NeueHouse Madison Square

110 E 25th St, New York, NY

Situated in the iconic Flatiron District, NeueHouse Madison Square was previously home for Tepper Galleries, a well-known Manhattan auction house for international artists and collectors in the 1930s. The vibrant energy of this historic space continues to serve as fertile ground for creativity and commerce.

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104 East 25th St, New York, NY

104 East 25th Street is a commercial building located in New York, NY. 104 East 25th Street was built in 1913 and has 12 stories and 16 units.

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A New City Rises

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New Rendering Revealed For 29-15 40th Road in Long Island City, Queens

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A new rendering has been revealed for 29-15 40th Road, an upcoming 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Few details have been made public about the project, which is being designed by Fogarty Finger Architects and developed by SB Development, which also acquired the adjacent lot at 29-13 40th Road for $8.7 million last fall.

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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

~ Fred Rogers (Mister Rogers)

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Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), better known as Mister Rogers, was an American television host, author, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was the creator, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which ran for 33-years, from 1968 to 2001.

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My neighborhood desperately needs additional supermarkets and for the past several years now there's been a huge influx of Asian citizens moving into the area. Whoever's responsible for constructing this Asian-centric supermarket is going to make a fortune

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Eight Story Complex Including Big Asian Supermarket Proposed for 38th Avenue in Dutch Kills

The development is expected to be eight stories tall and go up on 38th Avenue between 30th Street and Old Ridge Road. The top six floors would be for apartments, while the bottom two floors–totaling 12,000 square feet– to be set aside for an Asian supermarket.

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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This corner Apex building will be torn down and replaced by a 40-story building. To the right of the Apex building will soon be the upcoming construction for Opus Point, yet another new building. Long Island City is just non-stop construction.

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Like a red carpet. Would have been amazing had it been red cobblestones, or red brick for that matter. Like in The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy commences to embark on her lengthy journey to the Emerald City along the yellow brick road, the yellow brick and the red brick roads are situated side-by-side to each other, and as they spiral out from Munchkin City, the roads separate.

In the book, Dorothy travels along three different colored brick roads: yellow, red and purple. And there had still been yet another brick road in blue. Obviously, I read too much

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