Secrets of NYC
There’s a Scrabble Street Sign in Jackson Heights, Queens
A sign commemorating the inventor of Scrabble mysteriously appears, then disappears, in Jackson Heights, Queens.
The bridge is named for the once-dangerous channel it bridges, derived from the Dutch word hellegat, which means “hell channel.”
New York City’s Hell Gate Bridge sits on the north end of the East River, between Astoria, Queens and
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