47-08 11th Street

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1984
Joseph Colletti turns his Long Island City townhouse into a Titanic shrine
Inspired by the film Raise the Titanic, Colletti began covering the front of his home near the Pulaski Bridge with newspaper clippings, survivor photographs, letters and plaques, plus plastic frogs, porcelain cupids and other trinkets. A Titanic Historical Society member who wrote to survivors, he became known as Titanic Joe, and the Village Voice named him Best Public Displayer of an Obsession.
Source: atlasobscura.com
2015
Titanic Joe's facade memorial disappears and the house goes up for sale
Colletti could often be found outside tending the display and waving to people on the street, sometimes watching visitors through one of three surveillance cameras. Atlas Obscura reported that by 2015 the shrine was gone and the building was listed for sale.
Source: atlasobscura.com

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