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Double Head,Rockaway Park Blvd & Larkin Ave, Edgemere Photo Gallery Roadway Fixtures |
| The corner that time forgot? Not exactly, for time has actually paid more attention to Rocaway Park Blvd and Larkin Avenue than man has. Yet another of Rockaway's surviving 2-head traffic lights, and perhaps among the very last of them hanging from overhead, it watches over a corner devoid of any life, save for a closed up synagogue dating from the 1920's. Despite the seeming deadness, many fresh new signs adorn the crossing, from bright red stops, and no left turns to dayglo green school crossings. Why such directional attention to a veritable wasteland? |
| Well, Kevin Walsh of Forgotten-NY, who was with me on this jaunt, and I mulled this wierd situation and figured that maybe the school crossing signs were put up to protect the juvenile traffic attracted by the nearby boardwalk and beach. The cross street leads directly to those facilities from a subway stop one black away. There certainly isn't any school in the vicinity. There isn't much of anything else in the vicinity. Heading east from here, in fact, Larkin Avenue is very much the main drag of nothingness, as only weeds and scrubby unintentional trees line it. Much of this section between Edgemere and Arverne was razed in the 1980's in anticipation of legalized gambling, which of course never came to be. It remains desolate, as hope springs eternal. Shot 7/2000. |