The AirTrain to JFK Airport is one of the city's overlooked transit lines, functional but less than sexy, but there's plenty to discover if you pay attention.
Jameco Exchange is an art exhibit in Jamaica, Queens in NYC. It is curated by No Longer Empty which seeks to put art and creative spaces into neighborhoods.
Late at night and on weekends, the MTA stores subway trains underground in NYC in dedicated subway yards, express tracks, abandoned or never completed routes.
Six major redevelopment plans in NYC that will transform Queens from Astoria Cove/Hallets Point, to Hunter's Point South, Jamaica, 5 Pointz to Willets Point
In the heart of Jamaica, one of Queens' largest commercial and shopping districts, stands a grandiloquent 20th century movie palace: The Loew's Valencia Theater
Commuters on the Long Island Railroad are familiar with this sight near Jamaica: a vintage car atop a shipping container with the sign [email protected].
Rufus King's nineteenth-century country house survives as a museum in Queens.
Along the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, not too far from the Jamaica train station, stands a mosque clearly converted from an old factory. A painted turquoise dome rises above the drab factory exterior as well as a simple minaret. The building has been the New York headquarters of the Imam Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation.