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As for Yellowstone, like most irregular roadways
cutting across Queens at wild angles, like welts on a whipped
back, it is the present day incarnation of a much older trailway,
although I've been too lazy to look its particular history up.
Exactly what yellow stone it was named for, I have no idea. It
certainly wasn't gold, or even pyrite. Further to the northeast,
on the other side of Queens Boulevard, Yellowstone was the hangout
locale for a group of rockers who eventually became the Ramones.
Of course, Joey Ramone passed away not more than a few weeks
prior to this writing. Back in the 1970s, a little playground
park there named after Yellowstone was the main hangout where
the heavy metal type teens, assorted burnouts and burnout-wannabbees
of Forest Hills, Corona and Rego Park used to hang out and get
stoned; Yellow Stoned. I'm sure they still do. To the south and
west, Yellowstone runs across Woodhaven straight into another
ancient, irregular angling artery called Cooper Avenue, which
prior to the building of the Interboro (Now Jackie Robinson)
Pkwy, was the main route into east central Brooklyn from here.
Believe me, on particularly bad hair days for the Jackie, Cooper
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