{"id":5628,"date":"2016-08-16T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2016-08-16T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:02:39","slug":"nightingale-93590-29th-avenue-near-147th-street-in-flushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/08\/16\/nightingale-93590-29th-avenue-near-147th-street-in-flushing.html","title":{"rendered":"NIghtingale 93590. 29th Avenue near 147th Street in Flushing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI hadn’t spotted an old telephone exchange name phone number<\/a><\/strong> since December, when I saw another NIghtingale number<\/strong><\/a> in Carroll Gardens. I did see an ILlinois number<\/strong><\/a> at the 61st Street LIRR station in Woodside in March but that had been pointed out to me by a friend. I prefer the small thrill of discovering these things serendipitously. Yesterday’s NIghtingale phone number once belonged to Gentile’s Fence, a company which no longer seems\u00a0to exist. The format of the number is unusual. A more typical format would have been NI9-3590,<\/strong>\u00a0NI-9-3590<\/strong>, or even\u00a0NIghtingale 9-3590<\/strong>. I don’t remember ever seeing a phone number formatted this way. If I didn’t already know that NI stood for NIghtingale I might not have even realized what this string of letters and numbers meant.<\/p>\n

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NI. 93590. Gentile’s Fence. Flushing.<\/p><\/div>\n

 
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