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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A CommunityFocused Borough
In Queens, we are unique. Though we exude
pride in the borough we call home, we don’t identify
ourselves in our addresses or hometowns as “Queens,
New York.”
Unlike the other boroughs, Queens residents
specifically identify themselves by the neighborhoods
they live in.
Our neighborhoods provide our borough identity;
rich in culture and diversity. Whether it’s the culinary
delights of Jackson Heights, Forest Hills or Richmond
Hill, or the nightlife of Astoria, Long Island City and
Bayside; the bustling hubs of Jamaica and Flushing
or quiet enclaves of Cambria Heights, Whitestone
and Glendale, every neighborhood has a story and a
contribution to the borough’s identity.
This year, in honor of our 46th anniversary covering
the borough of Queens, we highlight 46 of the
neighborhoods we report on, their histories and some
fun facts about them, along with historical photos.
We hope you enjoy this keepsake edition and we
look forward to covering the neighborhoods of Queens
for another 46 years, and more!
Astoria ............................................................Page 4
Long Island City .............................................Page 5
Woodside, Sunnyside ....................................Page 6
East Elmhurst ................................................Page 7
Jackson Heights ............................................Page 8
North Corona, Corona .................................Page 10
Ridgewood, Maspeth ................................. Page 12
Glendale.......................................................Page 14
Middle Village ..............................................Page 15
Elmhurst, Rego Park ...................................Page 16
Forest Hills .................................................. Page 18
Kew Gardens, Briarwood ........................... Page 20
Woodhaven, Richmond Hill ....................... Page 22
Ozone Park, Howard Beach ........................Page 24
South Ozone Park, Broad Channel ........... Page 26
Jamaica....................................................... Page 28
South Jamaica, St. Albans ......................... Page 30
Laurelton, Rosedale ................................... Page 32
Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights ..... Page 34
Hollis ........................................................... Page 38
Queens Village............................................ Page 39
Bellerose ..................................................... Page 40
Glen Oaks ....................................................Page 41
Holliswood, Jamaica Estates ..................... Page 42
Douglaston, Little Neck.............................. Page 44
Fresh Meadows, Kew Gardens Hills.......... Page 46
Flushing .......................................................Page 47
Auburndale ................................................. Page 48
Bayside ....................................................... Page 50
Malba .......................................................... Page 52
College Point............................................... Page 53
Whitestone.................................................. Page 55
Your Weekly Tribune
Leisure ........................................................ Page 56
Deadline...................................................... Page 58
Edit Page ..................................................... Page 59
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several gyms, an indie bookstore, threading, waxing, hair
and nail salons, clothing boutiques, consignment shops
and a myriad of diners, most
Population: 154,000
of which claim to be voted #1
Community Board: 1
in New York.
Elected Officials: City Council: Costa
Additionally, while BroadConstantinides, Jimmy Van Bramer; State
way, 30th Avenue and Ditmars
Assembly: Aravella Simotas, Margaret Markey,
Boulevard are populated by a
Catherine Nolan; State Senate: Michael Giahealthy dose of Greek restaunaris, Jose Peralta; U.S. House of Representarants as well as diners, Ameritives: Carolyn Maloney, Joe Crowley
can cuisine, Thai, Japanese
Precinct: 114th
and more, Steinway Street beFire Department: Engine 262; Engine 263;
tween 23rd and 28th Avenue,
an area called little Egypt, is
Engine 312 and Ladder 117
the place to for Halal meat at
Public Libraries: Astoria branch, Broadway
hole-in-the-wall, everybodybranch, Steinway branch
in-here-knows-each-other
Famous Natives: Tony Bennet (singer),
restaurants, Baklava (yup, it’s
Ethel Merman (actress/singer), Whitey Ford
File Photo
not just Greek!) and other
(baseball player)
middle eastern/Mediterranean sweets to
die for, as well as Hookah bars.
The southwestern part of Astoria, called lights in a black sky, or the morning sun is
Hallets Cove, is industrial. A large apart- making the skyscrapers pop with vivid clarment complex is planned for the area.
ity.
In Astoria’s Northwestern corner, across
North and slightly east of the park, the
the river from the Upper East Side, it is Con Edison factory provides a ghastly and
the waterfront Astoria Park that defines fascinating sight for someone who’s not fathe neighborhood. The park is a hub of miliar with what a power plant looks like.
community activity, drawing parents with Acres of weird, electronic-like objects stand
young children, dogs owners, who let their in rows like corn along 20th Avenue. The
pooches run free before nine in the morn- company is a mainstay of the neighborhood
ing and most of all runners. Hellgate Road and has contributed many jobs over the
Runners is one of the groups that can of- years. But power plants helped earn Ditmars
ten be seen sprinting around the track on Boulevard the nickname “Asthma Alley.” The
Wednesday nights or charging up and down most toxic plant was dismantled in 2013.
the hill underneath the Hell Gate Bridge on
Other notable landmarks in Astoria inMondays (say hello!). The club was found- clude Kaufman Astoria studios, Socrates
ed in 1996 by five runners, including the Sculpture Park, The Greater Astoria Historigroup’s coach, Jared Mestre and his wife cal Society, the Isamu Noguchi Museum,
Luann Mestre, a top athlete who places in the Astoria Performing Arts Center and the
her age group in New York Road Runners first LGBT community center in Queens, the
Races. The parks is also home to an Olym- Queens Rainbow Community Center.
pic-size outdoor swimming pool, which is
Astoria is also the access point for Riker’s
free and open to the public during the sum- Island. A bridge connects the island, which
mer months, drawing hundreds of children hosts the city’s jail, to the neighborhood at
and lap swimmers.
Hazen Street.
All year round, but
especially in the summer, groups of friends,
couples and families
like to stroll the approximately 2/3 of a mile
stretch of waterfront.
Deep blue waters and
the endlessly-breathtaking Manhattan skyline
make the boardwalk
beautiful whether the
setting sun is turning
the sky pink, the offices
and apartments build- The 25-cent toll at the Triboro, now RFK, Bridge in the early
ings are twinkling with 1970s.
STATS
Astoria Park, the neighborhood’s
signature greenspace.
M
Photo Courtesy Greater Astoria Historical Society
(Above): Hell Gate Railroad bridge in
the 1930s. (Right): Purdy’s Street in the
Steinway section of Astoria in the early
20th Century.
File Photo
ost New York City residents
know Astoria for its Greek
food and culture. They come
to Taverna Kyclades for
grilled seafood, generous
portions of lemony potatoes and traditional
giant beans that are baked with tomato until they become butter-soft. City residents,
Greeks and non-Greeks, will wait for over
an hour to eat at one of the outdoor tables,
even on a brisk early spring day. Sometimes,
the servers at the family-style restaurant will
give them a glass of free house wine while
they wait in a line that occupies half the
block.
Or they come to the quieter Agnanti,
which offers a slower-moving and more sensuous dining experience. Next to Astoria
park and a ten minute walk from the train, it
attracts fewer visitors but boasts views of the
waterfront and equally outstanding food.
But restaurants like these and many others, including E Taverna To Koutouki, Elias
Corner, Loukoumi and Gregory’s 26 Taverna, just to name a few, are only a part of
the Greek presence in Astoria. And Greek
culture, the effect of a large migration of
Greeks to the area in the 1960s and 70s, is
only a part of what makes Astoria.
One of the defining aspects of many of
Astoria’s main junctures, aside from the elevated train that clangs and squeals over the
length of 31st street, is busy, bright streets
with diverse storefronts. Whether its Broadway, 30th Avenue, or Ditmars Boulevard,
these three neighborhood centers offer eye
candy in the form of a businesses that could
attract all different clientele: fish mongers,
Greek cafes, barbeque joints and brunch
spots, pharmacies, 99 cents and discount
stores, Mediterranean food shops, a handful of different major supermarkets at different price points, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks,
Photo Coutesy Queens Library
AstoriA
By LyNN
EDMONDS
L
ong Island City is geographically
the largest area in Queens, housing
many residents, businesses, shopping centers and plenty of entertainment including some popular
museums. The neighborhood’s prime location is across the East River from Manhattan,
and it’s becoming a landmark this year – the
Pepsi-Cola sign. The site has attracted the
interest of many since some of the earliest
European settlers built homes there in the
17th century.
Due to frequent flooding, the area remained farmland up until the mid-19th century, when two developers, Neziah Bliss and
Eliphalet Nott began doing construction in
the area. When the railroad arrived in the
1850s and 60s, and the ferry to Manhattan
arrived in 1859, the area quickly became
popular, bringing industry to the region. In
1870, the New York State legislature formed
LIC as a distinct township. It wasn’t until
1898 that Western Queens became a part of
New York City.
The first Borough Hall was briefly the LIC
Courthouse, which was built between 1872
and 1876. The courthouse became a designated NYC landmark in 1976 and is also
listed on the New York State and National
Registers of Historic Places. The courthouse
had been rebuilt in 1904 after a fire had destroyed the structure.
The courthouse was used in 1922 and
1956 as a setting for Cecil B De Mille’s
“Manslaughter” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “The
Wrong Man.” The courthouse is located on
the boarder of Hunters Point, which is one
of the smaller neighborhoods within LIC.
Hunters Point houses the famous PepsiCola sign in Gantry Plaza State Park – a part
the now-closed bottling plant – which can
Photo Courtesy Queens Library
Long IsLand CIty
By yvette
Brown
the Queensboro Bridge, which connects
Long Island City to Manhattan, under
construction in the early 1900s.
be seen from the city or from the Queensboro Bridge. Hunters Point is named after
George Hunter, who acquired a large parcel
in Hunters Point in 1817, which was later
purchased by Jeremiah Johnson, a Brooklyn real estate agent, after Hunter’s death.
Within Hunters Point, PS 1 Contemporary
Arts Center on Jackson Avenue is the oldest municipal school building in Queens,
having been built in 1893. Both PS 1 and
its affiliate, the Museum of Modern Art, are
landmarks.
Due north is Queensbridge on Vernon
Boulevard, the largest public housing development in NYC. Queensbridge was completed in 1940 and consists of 26 six-story
buildings. Further up north is Ravenswood,
which is home to Rainey Park. The park is
named after Thomas Rainey, who made it
his mission to have a bridge built across
the East River, which is now known as the
Queensboro Bridge.
The Socrates Sculpture Park is also a part
of LIC, which opened in 1986 and founded
by Mark DiSuvero along with other artists
and elected officials. It is said to be one
of the most acclaimed public art spaces in
STATS
Population: 68,117
Community Boards: 1, 2
Elected Officials: City Council: Jimmy Van
Bramer; State Assembly: Catherine Nolan,
Margaret Markey; State Senate: Michael Gianaris; U.S. House of Representatives: Carolyn
Maloney, Joe Crowley
Precincts: 108th, 114th
Fire Department: Engine 258, Engine 259,
Engine 260, Engine 261, Ladder 115, Ladder
116, Ladder 128
Public Libraries: Long Island City branch,
Court Square branch, Queensbridge branch
Famous Natives: Nas (musician), Mobb Deep
(rapper), Metta World Peace (athlete)
the country. Modern-day sculptures are also
able to be seen at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum. LIC was once the home of 5
Pointz, a building which housed artists, who
would legally paint the building before it
was whited out and demolished in 2013. It
was easily seen by passersby on the 7 train.
Also a part of LIC is Blissville and Dutch
Kills, lesser known areas within LIC. The
commercial area of LIC is Queens Plaza, a
mass transportation hub and it’s where the
Queensboro Bridge and Northern Boulevard
meet. LaGuardia Community College is also
a part of this community, located at 31-10
Thomson Avenue. They opened their doors
in 1971 and it holds students from about 160
different countries. LIC is a growing residential and business area, especially with more
affordable housing coming to the area.
families, who had originally been living in
Manhattan. Complexes like the Cosmopolitan apartments, which include 16 five-story
houses built in 1923 on 49th Street and the
Population: 45,099
Big Six Towers on Queens Boulevard and
60th Street.
In later years, Italians, Germans, Asians
and Hispanics settled in Woodside as well,
Bramer, Elizabeth Crowley; State Assembut the majority was the Irish. Founded in
bly: Michael DenDekker, Margaret Markey,
1988, the Emerald Isle Immigration Center
Catherine Nolan; State Senate: Jose Peralta,
at 59-26 Woodside Ave. welcomes recent
Michael Gianaris, Joe Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House
Irish immigrants and any others from other
of Representatives: Joe Crowley, Grace Meng
countries. They aided with job placement,
Precinct: 108th, 104th
accommodations, citizenship inquiries,
computer training and other services. They
Fire Department: Engine 325, Ladder 163
help about 7,000 arrivals every year.
Public Library: Woodside branch
Then there are the mom and pop shops
Famous Natives: Edward Burns (actor), Joel
on Roosevelt Avenue, which is one of the
Klein (Former Schools Chancellor), Frank
neighborhood’s main commercial thorMcCourt (author); Francis Ford Coppola (filmoughfares. The shops are owned and opermaker)
ated by Irish, Hispanic, Indian, Korean and
Chinese immigrants.
Other important
community organizations in Woodside
include Woodside on
the Move and Ready,
Willing and Able.
Woodside on the
Move is a non-profit
social services agency for residents and
businesses. Ready,
Willing and Able is a
program that helps
homeless people by
offering them jobs in
exchange for meals, St. Sebastian’s Church on Roosevelt Avenue in the 1990s, fresocial services and quented over the years by Woodside’s heavily Irish-American
shelter.
population.
STATS
Woodside Avenue in the 1930s
W
oodside is a residential,
commercial and industrial
community for the borough, but it was once a quieter and aristocratic neigh-
borhood.
John Kelly along with a few others had
settled in Woodside and built mansions. His
son, John Andrew Kelly, wrote a series of
articles describing the neighborhood titled,
“Letters from Woodside.” Not too soon after Kelly built the mansions, Benjamin W.
Hitchcock, a developer, saw a different look
for Woodside, he saw its potential. In 1867,
Hitchcock sold lots, laid out the streets and
created a village including a rural one with
swamps and woods that stretched for miles.
For a while the neighborhood was rural with
open lots and even a “wild animal farm” in
1915 and well into 1917.
By the 1920s, Woodside had multiple
developments that brought in a lot of Irish
STATS
By yVETTE
BROWN
File Photos
The tree-canopied Sunnyside Gardens, a
historic residential district.
A
t one time, Sunnyside embodied pastoral village life. The area
consisted of gardens shared by
private homes during the 1920s.
Now the neighborhood has been
shaped by pressures to adapt, yet still conserve the village appeal.
Once the Queensboro Bridge opened in
1909 and the elevated line that now carries
the 7 train over Queens Boulevard opened
in 1917, the area of Sunnyside grew rapidly.
In 1850, there was a railroad that had
been built across from the Sunnyside Hotel,
File Photos
SunnySide
but rather than make that location the center of the neighborhood, Sunnyside shifted
down south to allow for rail yards designed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1910. This
eventually led to the development of rows
Population: 29,506
of attached houses and apartment buildCommunity Board: 2
ings in the 1920s.
Today the neighborhood is filled with
Bramer; State Assembly: Catherine Nolan, Mardifferent cultures from German to Middle
garet Markey; State Senate: Michael Gianaris;
Eastern, South American to Korean and the
U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
influence comes from the abundance of inPrecinct: 108th
ternational restaurants. On Queens BouleFire Department: None
vard within Sunnyside, Dazies Restaurant
Public Library: Sunnyside branch,
serves Italian food, Hemsin serves TurkFamous Natives: Judy Holliday (actress/
ish food, Ariyoshi has Japanese fare and
on Greenpoint Avenue El Comelon serves
singer), James Caan (actor), Chris Kanyon
Salvadorian and Colombian food. Skillman
(wrestler)
Avenue has plenty of places to shop. It is
also the site of an annual street fair, which
is hosted in September by the Sunnyside
Foundation
Community Planning and
Preservation.
Sunnyside
Gardens,
which
was
added to the National
Register of Historic
Places in 1984, is an
area that holds about
1,500 houses and a
three-acre
private
park, only one of two
private parks in NYC.
A few famous people have come from
A mural shows Sunnyside pride.
Sunnyside Gardens
including jazz legend Leon “Bix” Beider- Mumford, Judy Holliday, Perry Cuomo,
becke, influential writer and critic Lewis Rudy Vallee, and Hap Moran.
File Photo
WoodSide
By yVETTE
BROWN
E
ast Elmhurst is often the scene
that travelers see when in passing
to and from LaGuardia Airport.
The neighborhood is now a hub
for vacationers and commuters,
but East Elmhurst has some interesting history behind its visual appeal.
During the late 1800s, East Elmhurst
was mainly a rural area with views of the
East River, Bowery and Flushing Bays. The
shoreline of Astoria, and what is today considered East Elmhurst, ended up being the
place where the North Beach Bowery Bay
Gala Amusement Park. The park opened in
1886 and was created by William Steinway,
of the piano manufacturing company, and
George Ehert, a brewmaster.
People would come by steamboat ferry
from Manhattan and the Bronx and by trol-
Photo Courtesy Queens Library/File Photo
East Elmhurst
By yvette
Brown
ley from other parts of Queens and Brooklyn to enjoy themselves at the bathing
beaches, ride on carousels, ferris wheels
and scenic railways. Developers began to
build waterfront hotels to accommodate
those who would travel to the park.
Eventually, the resort began to wane in
1919 and the North Beach was torn down.
In 1929, part of the site was then privately
owned by Glenn H. Curtiss Airport until
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia took hold of it
and on Dec. 2, 1939, LaGuardia Airport officially opened to commercial traffic.
East Elmhurst is also home to many renowned jazz talents including Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown, as well as Ray Bryant
and Junior Mance.
Another important moment in history
in East Elmhurst was the night of Feb. 14,
1965, when bottles of
gasoline were thrown
through the living room
windows of former Nation of Islam Minister
Malcolm X and his fam-
STATS
Population: 23,150
Community Board: 3
Elected Officials: City Council: Julissa
Ferreras-Copeland, Costa Constantinides; State
Assembly: Jeffrion Aubry, Michael DenDekker;
State Senate: Jose Peralta; U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Precinct: 115th
Fire Department: None
Public Libraries: Langston Hughes branch;
East Elmhurst branch
Famous Natives: Eric Holder (U.S. Attorney
General); PJ Hill (football player);
ily on 97th Street. While no one was hurt
during the attack, Malcolm X was shot and
killed in Manhattan a week later.
The ethnic composition of the neighborhood began changing in the 1990s as
Hispanic and Asian
families began moving in. The 2000 census showed that the
community was one
of the fastest changing communities in
the city.
the Grand Pier
on Flushing Bay
in east elmhurst
in the 1920s. the
site is now part of
LaGuardia Airport,
left.
and Abhishek Bachchan have even visited
in the past. A Pakistani drama serial titled
“Jackson Heights” which aired in both Pakistan and India in 2014 follows the lives of
Pakistanis living abroad in Jackson Heights.
In 2015, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman directed, produced, and shot a documentary in Jackson Heights titled “In Jackson
Heights”.
A walk few blocks further down towards
82nd street, transports
visitors from South Asia
to Latin America. Taco
stands, blaring Salsa music, and people speaking
Spanish left and right is
the typical picture. Columbians, Bolivians, Arpon
stepgentinians, Ecuadorians
ping out of
and Mexicans make up
the Roosevelt
the majority of the Latin
Avenue
train
population in Jackson
station,
the
Heights. La Pequeña
smell of fresh Kababs, deep
Columbia located on
fried samosas, and momos
Roosevelt Avenue offers
(steamed dumplings) welauthentic South Americome visitors into the busy
can cuisine including
and bustling neighborhood
empanadas, fried planthat is Jackson Heights.
tains, paella and ceviIf you’ve always been cuches. Immigrants from
rious about South Asia, but A sign in the 1970s advertises Columbia were among
could not afford a plane a community watch for Jack- the first Latino group
ticket to hop across the son Heights.
to begin arriving to the
pond, then all you need
area in 1960’s.
to do is jump on the E, F, R, M, or 7 train
In the 1900’s, Jackson Heights was mostand make your way over to this northwest ly farmland. The transformation began in
Queens neighborhood to get the same kind 1908 when a group of bankers and Real Esof experience.
tate Developers known as the Queensboro
Immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Realty Company purchased the land. JackIndia, Nepal, and Tibet make up a big por- son Heights was named after John C. Jacktion of the population. Since the 1980’s, son, who built Jackson Avenue, which is
Jackson Heights has been dubbed “Little now known as NorthIndia” and it’s easy to see why. Indian jew- ern Boulevard. Garelry shops and colorful sarees on display den apartments that
in store windows can be seen throughout were built between
73rd and 74th street. Customers can even 1917 and 1940 are a
try their hand at bargaining with the shop- signature landmark
keepers just like people in the old country. of the neighborhood
Amongst South Asians, Indians were the and were the first
dominant group, but in recent years an in- planned cooperative
flux of Bangladeshis have also immigrated
and made a presence in the area. Kabir’s
Jackson
Bakery, a Bangladeshi-owned bakery is full (Below):
of a wide variety of South Asian delicacies Heights’ post office
such as both chicken and vegetarian samo- is one of its many
buildings.
sas, chicken puff pastries, Kheer (rice pud- iconic
Jackson
ding), and gulab jamun (fried spongy balls (Right):
Heights was one of
dipped in a rose-scented syrup).
Billboards and posters depicting Bolly- the first developwood stars can be found on windows and ments outside Manwalls of stores and restaurants. A-list Bol- hattan for families
lywood actors such as Shah Rukh Khan and commuters.
The Jackson Theater on 82nd
Street in the 1940s.
Jackson HeigHts
By KULSOOM
KHAN
U
STATS
Population: 133,464
Community Board: 3
Ferreras-Copeland, Danny Dromm; State Assembly: Michael DenDekker, Francisco Moya;
State Senate: Jose Peralta, Toby Stavisky; U.S.
House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Precinct: 115th
Public Library: Jackson Heights branch
Famous Natives: Mercedes Ruehl (actress);
Lucy Liu (actress); Montgomery Clift (actor);
Susan Sarandon (actress); Gene Simmons
(musician); Eleanor Clift (journalist); Robert
Casey (politician, Governor of Pennsylvania);
Don Rickles (comedian); John Leguizamo
(comedian, actor)
apartment community built in the United
States.
Jackson Heights also boasts one of the
largest and most thriving LGBT communities
in the country. A number of LGBT families
have moved to the neighborhoods, attracted, as families before them, to the neighborhood’s large apartments and schools.
Several blocks of the neighborhood between 35th and 37th avenues have been
preserved as an historic district, protecting the mid 20th-century aesthetics of the
neighborhood’s apartment buildings on
those blocks. Most notable are the neoclassical design of the apartment blocks on 80th
Street, reminiscent of the posh Kensington
section of London.
N
orth Corona is mainly known Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, which is
for the jazz legend, Louis Arm- the only hands-on science and technology
strong, who would fill the area center in NYC. The Queens Museum of Art
with his music when he lived is also located in North Corona on the borthere.
der of Corona and Flushing by the Grand
Armstrong lived at 34-56 107th Street Central Parkway.. The museum is housed
right off of Northern Boulevard and he in the New York City Building, which is
lived in the red-brick, two-story house with the only surviving building constructed for
his wife, Lucille, in 1943. Although they had the 1939 World’s Fair. From 1946 to 1950,
no children, the couple was often referred the building was home to the U.N. General
to as “Aunt Lucille” and “Uncle Louis” by Assembly. The Queens Museum of Art is
the neighborhood kids. Armstrong found mostly known for its Panorama of NYC. It’s
joy in serenading the kids from his front a big architectural model that shows every
stoop and was often seen as a positive role building, in all five boroughs, constructed
model for them.
before 1992. The panorama has been renoHe was also seen as an outspoken sym- vated a few times to accommodate for the
bol of the civil rights movement. Armstrong changes that have been made to different
made a goodwill tour to western Africa and structures including the area around the
did not partake in patronizing New York World Trade Center.
clubs, even though he was excluded from
them.
He lived in North
Corona until his
death in 1971 and
his wife stayed in
the house until her
passing in 1983. The
house is now a national historic landmark as well as a
New York City landmark and a museum, which has been
opened to the public
since 2003.
Other museums
in North Corona (Right): The Louis Armstrong Museum at his
include the New former home in North Corona. (Above): Shea
York Hall of Science Stadium, though often branded as ‘Flushing’
on 111th Street in was actually in North Corona.
Corona was the neighborhood that officially played host to the World’s Fair
in 1939-40 and in 1964-65, seen here.
C
orona is known for its diversity, ranging from Hispanics to
African Americans and Italian
influences. Corona celebrates
their diversity every year with
popular summer festivals and many other
traditions.
Corona went from suburban to the busy
neighborhood that it is today once the Long
Island Rail Road arrived in 1854. The station opened on National Street – named after the National Race Course, which opened
the same year.
The neighborhood was once considered
West Flushing, but it was renamed Corona
in 1872 by music publisher Benjamin W.
Hitchcock – he sold lots for residential
development including two lots to the
showman P.T. Barnum. Once that offering
came about, development increased fast,
Population: 33,118
Elected Officials: City Council: Julissa Ferreras-Copeland; State Assembly: Jeffrion Aubry,
Francisco Moya; State Senate: Jose Peralta;
U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Public Library: Corona branch
Famous Natives: Louis Armstrong (jazz
musician); Robert Parris Moses (Civil Rights
leader); Kool G Rap (rapper)
STATS
Population: 88,427
Community Board: 4
Ferreras-Copeland, Danny Dromm; State Assembly: Jeffrion Aubry, Francisco Moya; State
Senate: Jose Peralta; U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Precinct: 110th
Public Libraries: Corona branch, LeFrak City
branc
Famous Natives: Estee Lauder (cosmetics maven); Martin Scorsese (filmmaker);
Noreaga (rapper)
The New york Hall
of Science attracts
many tourists
to Corona.
File Photos
Corona
By yVETTE
BROWN
especially after the elevated train
service was built in 1917 along
Roosevelt Avenue.
Corona was also known for
their factories. The stained-glass
factory of Louis Comfort Tiffany
was built in 1893 on 97th Place
between 43rd and 44th Avenues
and it produced decorative lights,
ceramics, jewelry and metal
works. Most of Tiffany Studios’
work was displayed in a Manhattan showroom for customers like
the Rockefellers, the Astors and
Mark Twain along with others.
During the early 1970s, the
Hispanic population grew as they
lived alongside Germans, Italians,
African Americans and Jewish families. Today, more than half of the
neighborhood is filled with Puerto Ricans,
Dominicans, Peruvians, Colombians and
Mexicans. Every summer, these cultures
join together to host different festivals including the Ecuadorian Day Festival, the
Dominican Day Festival and the Latin Mix
Festival and they’re all celebrated in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park – the western
part of the neighborhood right near 111th
Street.
On 108th Street and 51st Avenue sits a
small triangular park nicknamed “Spaghetti Park” by residents and originally named
William F. Moore Park. This is where Italian
men have been hosting bocce ball tournaments for decades. This is also where the
neighborhood school, PS 14, would host
their Christmas celebrations with carols.
The park is enjoyed by both the elderly and
young children.
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M
aspeth was named after the
Mespeactches Native Americans. This tribe was one of
many that lived in this area
and the name they gave it
translates to “at the bad waterplace”, which
may be attributed to the stagnant swampy
areas that existed in the area.
The area was settled by British in the
mid-1600s. The first deed signed on Long
Island was between the newcomers and native tribes for 13,000 acres granted to the
settles. Soon fights broke out between them
and the Maspat tribe. The settlers retreated
to what is now Elmhurst and later further
back to Manhattan.
A few years later, the British ventured
back to the area. It was initially a scant 28
English Quakers along the growing industrial Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek
that founded the town.
Maspeth borders Newtown Creek to the
west and after the Revolutionary War the
area became inundated with factories along
the creek that could use the waterway to
ship their goods to Manhattan. After the
war, roadways were built made of crushed
oyster shells and wooden planks. The creek
was the site of the nation’s first kerosene refinery, first modern oil refinery, a glue factory, rope works, and a tin factory. Industry in the area kept growing. More skilled
laborers moved into the area and brought
with them the need for housing.
With the influx of immigrants and laborers in the 1800s, a shanty town of Boyash
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Iconic Ridgewood brownstones. Some
of the neighborhood became an historic
district in 2010.
Brooklyn that began in 1660. The rock
was placed as land marker between Ridgewood and Bushwick. As the years passed it
become buried until 2000 when the New
York City Department of Environmental
Preservation and representatives from
Queens Borough Hall found it buried under Onderdonk Avenue. The rock’s fate
was under debate, until it was decided to
be moved to its current home in 2002.
Along with the German and British settlers, was a large influx of Dutch at the beginning of the 18th century. The Ende-Onderdonk’s family homestead has survived
until now. The house, which was built in
1709 when the area was mostly farmland,
stayed as their family home until 1905.
During the land dispute the house was the
Population: 98,592
Community Board: 5
Elected Officials: City Council: Elizabeth
Crowley, Antonio Reynoso; State Assembly:
Catherine Nolan, Michael Miller, Andrew
Hevesi; State Senate: Michael Gianaris, Joe
Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of Representatives:
Nydia Velasquez, Grace Meng.
Precinct: 104th
Engine 291, Ladder 135 and Ladder 140.
Public Library: Ridgewood branch
Famous Natives: James Cagney (actor), Rosie
Perez (actress), Pedro Beato ( baseball player)
original marker between Bushwick and
Ridgewood and now shares its property
with Arbitration Rock. The house is the old
Dutch-Colonial home standing New York
City.
In 1975, the newly formed Ridgewood
Historical Society began fundraising to reconstruct the house, which was damaged
in a fire. It took the organization six years
to accomplish their goal. Today it operates
a museum and cultural center that is the
focal point of history for Western Queens.
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Maspeth
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ithin in the borders of Ridgewood lies one of the largest
historic districts in the United States. Along with Glendale, Ridgewood had a large
German population that both created and
settled in the stately homes that still exist,
in good condition, in the community today.
Just like their neighbors in Glendale,
Ridgewood was also famous for its large
parties, German pubs, beer gardens and
breweries. Although the town is famous
for its celebrated German heritage, it was
British settlers that named it Ridgewood
after the forest and hilly topography. The
local talent featured machine workers, and
skilled laborers that were part of the economic engine for World War I and II.
In the early twentieth century Ridgewood saw an arrival of Italians, Irish, and
Gottscheer Germans from Slovenia, who
were all displaced after World War I. In
1934 Ridgewood was the site of a 9,000 person boycott of Nazi Germany. The boycott
resulted in fights between Nazi sympathizers and Jewish Communist Groups. It was
estimated by a daily paper of the time that
1,100 Nazis resided in Ridgewood, but that
they observed it as a social society that was
difficult to avoid joining.
One of the most popular landmarks in
Ridgewood is the Arbitration Rock, which
settled a land dispute between Queens and
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Ridgewood
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CRONIN
Grand Avenue in Maspeth in the mid
1940s. The trolley was replaced by the
bus in 1949.
(Ludar) Gypsies took up residence between 1925 and 1939, but as a more cohesive neighborhood grew the shanties were
bulldozed.
Over the years the creek’s shore was
home to a sewage treatment plant, factories and refineries. The waterway became
polluted then and the issue has become
even more serious today At the time there
were no regulations for pollution and today
the Environmental Protection Agency has
designated Maspeth Creek and Newtown
Creek a superfund site, a title reserved for
the most polluted sites in the nation.
The shores of the creek are still an industrial area, though none of the former
factories and plants are currently active.
This western portion of the town is considerably different from the peaceful eastern
neighborhood.
Maspeth has become a close community. They were proud to have saved the
Population: 34,981
Community Board: 5
Elected Officials: State Senate; Joe Addabbo Jr., Michael Gianaris.; State Assembly:
Margaret Markey; City Council: Elizabeth
Crowley; Congress: Grace Meng
Precinct: 104th
Fire Department: Squad 288, Hazmat 1
Public Library: Maspeth branch
Famous Natives: Vincent Piazza (actor)
Maspeth Town Hall, which was built by the
Dutch Brinkerhoff family in 1898. Ironically, the building was never actually used as a
town hall, but served as a schoolhouse until
1932, then a girls’ club during the Depression. It housed the 112th Precinct after that
but fell into disrepair by the late 1960s. A
committee was formed to save it and today
the Maspeth Town Hall is a thriving Community Center.
Maspeth residents have also championed
the naming of Frank Principe Park on Maurice
Avenue and 63rd Street. Principe was a former
Community Board 5 president and beloved
community member. His wife Virginia was
also an avid community advocate and within
the park the playground was named after her
in 2000. Recently the park was redesigned
to allow for one soccer field and two softball
fields for the youth of the community.
G
lendale is one of the quietest
low-crime areas of Queens. It
was founded in the mid-1800s
by real estate agent John
Schooley who named then
settlement Glendale after his hometown of
Glendale, Ohio.
The area was settled in the 17th century and named Fresh Ponds after all the
swamps and ponds that litter the land.
Glendale became home to a large German community in the mid-1800s and
known for its rowdy picnics. Taverns were
an important characteristic of the community as were the picnic parks where residents
played sports, sang, danced and drank with
frivolity.
After Schooley purchased land in 1869,
he laid out plots measuring 25 by 100 feet
and sold them for $300 each.
When prohibition started in 1920, the
partying was curtailed and by 1930 the last
of the picnic areas were paved over to make
room for what is now the Jackie Robinson
Parkway.
Today half of Glendale’s township is covered in cemeteries that were founded because of a ban on cemeteries in Manhattan
during the mid-19th century.
There was once a silent film studio on
Myrtle Avenue in Glendale in the 1920s. Today, Glendale has Broadway Stages, which
films many current Netflix and major network television shows on Cooper Avenue.
In 1869, a railroad stop at 73rd Street
(then named Wyckoff Avenue) was opened
by the South Side Railroad, which was sold
in 1874 to the North Side Railroad and later merged with the Long Island Rail Road
in 1876 to become part of the Montauk
Branch. In 1927, the station burned down
and was never replaced.
From the late 19th century and until the
beginning of World War I, Glendale was
renowned for entertainment; there was a
bowling alley and many popular bars, as
well as a trolley along Union Turnpike that
ran to Schutzen Park.
As Myrtle Avenue developed, the trolley
became popular for transportation along
that main thoroughfare. After the first
World War, Glendale took part by changing their economic infrastructure from agriculturally based to primarily textile manufacturing and breweries.
During that time a large industrial park
called Atlas Terminal consisting of 16 factories. And as a result the town manufactured
large part of the industrialized mechanisms
for World War II and for the Manhattan
Project, which created the first atomic
bombs.
In the mid 1930s the Jackie Robinson
Parkway was designed and built by Robert
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Population: 80,000
Community Board: 5
Crowley; State Assembly: Mike Miller, Andrew
Hevesi; State Senate: Joe Addabbo Jr., Michael
Gianaris; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace
Meng
Precincts: 104th
Public Library: Glendale branch
Famous Natives: Dan Schneider (writer)
Moses, and displaced hundreds of plots in
the Cypress Hills Cemetery. As with many
large roadways making their way through
communities, the parkway construction was
vehemently opposed by residents.
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Glendale
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Atlas Terminals in the 1990s. The railroad terminal closed in 2003 and later became
The Shops At Atlas Park mall.
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Middle Village
M
iddle Village is known for its
proximity to Manhattan and
quiet suburban streets in a
neighborhood enclosed on
three sides by cemeteries.
It was settled in the early 19th century
by families of British descent and named
because it was mid-point between Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike, which was later
renamed Metropolitan Avenue.
Like its surrounding towns, its development began with the ruling by city government to stop creating cemeteries in Manhattan. Many Manhattan churches began
buying farmland in Queens. Middle Village
became the first to have a Lutheran church,
which also led to many Germans moving to
the area.
The 1,000 victims of the General Slocum
steamboat ferry fire in 1904 are buried in
the All Faiths Lutheran Cemetery on Metro-
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CRONIN
The original PS 70 on 69th Street in
Middle Village was an old-style schoolhouse. The site is very close to the current location of PS 128.
politan Avenue. The ferry caught fire and
sank in the Long Island Sound. The passengers were mostly German women and
children from the lower east side headed to
Long Island for a picnic. The disaster is still
commemorated by
the General Slocum
Memorial
Association on June 15.
They hold a memorial service at Trinity Lutheran Church
and lay wreaths at
the commemorative
monument at the All
Faith’s
Cemetery.
Until Septemeber
11, 2001, it was the
single worst disaster
Juniper Valley
Park is a recreation center of
Middle Village.
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Population: 28,984
Community Board: 5
Crowley; State Assembly: Andrew Hevesi, Margaret Markey; State Senate: Joe Addabbo Jr.;
U.S. House of Representatives: Grace Meng
Precinct: 104th
Fire Department: Engine 206
Public Library: Middle Village branch
Famous Natives: Cree Cicchino (actress);
Mike Repole, (creator of Vitamin Water);
Nicole Bass, (professional bodybuilder)
in the history of the city.
The cemeteries in the area made Metropolitan Avenue a popular stopping point.
They created a demand for lodging, stores,
flower shops and restaurants for those visiting their loved ones in the burial grounds.
Descendents of the original German settlers can still be found in the community,
along with Italians, Jews, Russians, Polish,
Hispanics and immigrants from the former
Yugoslavia.
Along with surrounding neighborhoods,
Middle Village residents are passionate
about retaining the suburban quality yet
sometimes lose while pushing back the force
of urban sprawl. In 1938 residents founded
the Juniper Park Civic Association which
aids in the protection of Juniper Valley Park.
The Park itself was created from 55 acres of
swamp land and white cedar trees that was
turned into playgrounds, athletic fields, a
wading pool, and walking paths.
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Elmhurst’s St. James Church, established
in 1735, is the oldest surviving Episcopalian church in New york City.
R
ego Park would best be characterized as busy. It is the home
to one of the richest centers of
commerce in the borough as any
native of Queens would tell you,
and has a prime location, located just seven
miles from Manhattan.
One of the most important factors that
makes Rego Park so busy is the roads that
go through it. The neighborhood has four
major arteries surging through it; Woodhaven Boulevard, 63rd Drive, Junction Boulevard and of course, the expansive Queens
Boulevard. Along all four of these arteries,
Photo Courtesy Michael Perlman
Rego PaRk
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E
lmhurst is one of the oldest
neighborhoods in Queens after
English colonists settled there in
1652.
Originally named Middelburgh, it was one of the original towns of
Queens. In 1683, the town became the seat
of local government, which led the town to
be called Newtown. But in 1896, a developer by the name of Cord Meyer bought a
elmhuRst
The former Macy’s “in the round” on Queens Boulevard is an iconic structure in
Elmhurst. Macy’s originally opened their store there surrounded by parking, but
moved to Queens Center Mall a few blocks away in the late 1990s. The structure
now houses several stores as Queens Place Mall.
The historic Trylon Theater on Queens
Boulevard, now the Ohr Natan community center.
number of farms and began building up
the area, so that it would be a residential
village. Because of the association between
Newtown and the polluted Newtown
Creek along the Queens-Brooklyn border,
Meyer asked that the town be renamed for
marketing reasons. The neighborhood was
renamed Elmhurst after the elm trees. The
Newtown name still remains at the Grand
Avenue subway station, a high school and
two churches.
Italian, German, Irish, and Jewish immigrants who settled in Lower Manhattan relocated to Elmhurst after the independent subway opened in 1936. The
neighborhood remained a predominantly white, middle-class community until
the late 1960s.
The neighborhood was always very
appealing due to housing in apartments
and private homes, two hospitals, easy
transportation into Manhattan, a wealth
of restaurants and services and shopping
along Broadway, Roosevelt Avenue, Junc-
the streets are filled to the brim with businesses and cultural resonating with visitors
and residents alike.
Rego Park has a massive shopping center split into two different sections. The
second part of the mall was completed in
March of 2010, consisting of a Costco, a
Century 21, a Toys R Us, a Dallas BBQ and
more. The Rego Center is also just a few
blocks from the Queens Center Mall and
the Queens Place Mall.
In addition to being a bustling area of
commerce, Rego Park has a number of residential areas. Those areas are known to be
fairly laid back, juxtaposed to the very busy
roadways near the more shopping driven
arteries of Rego Park. It all began years
ago, when people started to take notice of
how ideal Rego Park is. In the 1920’s, the
Real Good construction company stepped
in built a community of two family and
single family houses. It was from this construction company that the neighborhood
got it’s name, taking the first two letters of
their two word name [Real Good]. Families
who wanted to leave the hustle and bustle
and overly crowded borough of Manhattan
fled to the newly developed Rego Park due
to its previously mentioned convenience.
Many of the families who moved to
Rego Park initially were of Italian, German,
Irish and Jewish backgrounds, the latter
of which still holds true today. As a result,
Rego Park hold a number of longstanding
and landmark buildings dedicated to the
Jewish faith, including the Rego Park Jewish Center and the Chabad of Rego Park.
Queens Boulevard, the 7.2 mile long
roadway that extends from the Queensborough Bridge to Jamaica Avenue, for a time
Population: 88,427
Elected Officials: City Council: Danny
Dromm, Elizabeth Crowley, Karen Koslowitz; State Assembly: Jeffrion Aubry, Michael
DenDekker, Margaret Markey; State Senate:
Joseph Addabbo Jr., Toby Stavisky, Jose Peralta;
U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley,
Grace Meng
Precinct: 110th, 104th
Fire Department: Engine 287, Ladder 136,
Ladder 138
Public Library: Elmhurst branch
Famous Natives: Antonin Scalia (Supreme
Court Justice), Patty Duke (actress), William
Casey (CIA Director), Omar Minaya (MLB
executive), Julissa Bermudez (TV host)
tion Boulevard and Queens Boulevard.
Queens Boulevard has always been home
to many large retailers including Macys. Macy’s opened in 1965 between 55th and 56th
Avenues. Macy’s later became Queens Place
Mall in 2001 after it was turned into Stern’s.
Elmhurst also claims Queens Center Mall,
which was built in 1974. In the late 1980s,
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall shot scenes
of “Coming to America” at a Wendy’s that
used to be on Queens Boulevard.
Elmhurst used to have two hospitals,
Elmhurst Hospital and St. John’s Hospital,
which was one of the first hospitals to use
hydrotherapy. St. John’s Hospital is now
closed.
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Population: 72,741
Community Board: 6
Elected Officials: City Council: Karen
Koslowitz; State Assembly: Andrew Hevesi,
Margaret Markey; State Senate: Toby Stavisky,
Joseph Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace Meng
Precinct: 112th
Fire Department: Engine 292, Battalion 46;
Engine 324, Battalion 46
Public Library: Rego Park Branch
Famous Natives: Art Spiegelman (cartoonist), Sid Caesar (comedian)
was infamous for being the conveyer of tragedy. Dubbed, “The Boulevard of Death” in
the 1990’s, a number of fatal crashes took
place on the busy road way. More than 20
people were killed and 18 injured somewhere along the road from 1980 to 1984.
From 1993 to 2000, an average of 10 people
or more were struck and killed by vehicles
every year as they crossed the street. At the
turn of the millennium, much attention was
turned to solving the issue. Increased ticketing and signage was a part of solving the
problem with mixed results. From 2003 to
2013, 36 deaths have occurred on Queens
Boulevard.
In 2011, new traffic signals were installed
to help curb the infamous fatality rate. Coincidentally, there were no fatalities that year.
Most recently, Mayor Bill de Blasio made
an effort to stop the Boulevard of Death
through his Vision Zero initiative.
Queens Boulevard in the 1910s.
F
orest Hills is the most sought after,
quietly idyllic suburban neighborhood existing in Queens today.
It is a transportation hub, an
entertainment destination, and a
historical district, which gives the upscale
neighborhood the cosmopolitan chic that is
not often found so far east of Manhattan.
The town was given its name for their
proximity to Forest Park at the beginning
of the twentieth century when the area was
mostly farmland.
Michael Perlman, a local historian and
author of ‘Legendary Locals of Forest Hills
and Rego Park’, noted that a large portion
of the farmland was developed by the Cord
Meyer Development Company in the early
1900s. The Russell Sage Foundation bought
142 acres south of today Long Island Rail
Road station, from them and developed
what is now Forest Hills Gardens, the oldest
planned garden district in the U.S.
After the LIRR station was built in 1911,
the community grew exponentially, boasting
a now half hour commute to Manhattan. By
the end of the 1920s , apartment complexes
began to rise along Queens Boulevard then
in 1936 the subway was constructed and
with it the need for more apartments to be
built.
By late 1940s the area was primarily middle-class Italian and Jewish residents. Over
the next 40 years the area became mainly
immigrant Asians, Russian Jews, Hispanics,
which mingled with Polish, Iranian, Italian,
and Germans.
When moving south in Forest Hills towards Union Turnpike, the neighborhood
throws away the hustle and bustle of the
many boutiques, restaurants, bars and bakeries of Queens Boulevard and Austin Street
and features the more tree laden streets of
Forest Hills Gardens. There the streets are
narrow quiet streets with large single fam-
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Population: 83,728
Community Board: 6
Elected Officials: City Council: Karen
Koslowitz; State Assembly: Andrew Hevesi;
State Senate: Toby Stavisky, Joe Addabbo Jr.,
Leroy Comrie; U.S. House of Representatives:
Grace Meng
Precinct: 112th
Public Libraries: Forest Hills branch, North
Forest Park branch
Famous Natives: Hank Azaria (actor), David
Caruso (actor), Jimmy Breslin (journalist),
Donna Karan (fashion designer), Jack Lew
(U.S. Secretary of Treasury), Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (politician, Democratic
Party chairwoman), The Ramones (musicians),
Carroll O’Connor (actor)
The landmark ridgewood Savings Bank
building at 108th Street and Queens Boulevard upon completion in 1940.
renamed ‘Eddie’s’ after it was bought by the
Citrano family in 1968. According to Perlman, some of the classic features that the
parlor has retained are the mirrored wooden built-in tables, a Frigidaire freezer, tin
ceiling and a mahogany and marble counter.
Upon walking into the ornate shop, patrons
feel like they are transported to a simpler
time.
Photos Courtesy Michael Perlman
Forest Hills
By Jon
Cronin
ily homes, and beautiful
landscape architecture.
Hidden within this
European like community is the West End
Tennis Club where the
U.S. Open was played
until 1979. According to
the club’s website, tennis stars such as John
McEnroe, Arthur Ashe,
Billie Jean King, and
Jimmy Connors have
played there. Inside the
tennis club is the Forest Hills Stadium, which
has seen the likes of the
most iconic musical acts
of the last 60 years; The
Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix,
Frank Sinatra, The Monkees, Barbara Streisand,
Bob Dylan, The Talking
Heads, Diana Ross, and
The Who have all played
to sold-out concerts.
The stadium closed in the 90s when it
became too expensive to keep open, but
was re-opened in 2013. The summer of
2016 promises to be their biggest one since
their return, with Paul Simon, Bob Dylan,
Mumford and Sons, and the New York Pops
orchestra playing this summer. Some longtime residents may remember that Paul Simon grew up in Forest Hills and attended
Forest Hills High School.
The alternative Punk-Rock band, The
Ramones also attended Forest Hills High
School before they were discovered. The
famous ‘Jumpin’ at the Woodside’ drummer, Buddie Rich, also called Forest Hills
home in the late 60s. Broadway performer
Carol Channing also once lived in Forest
Hills. Caroll O’Connor, who played television’s favorite armchair racist, Archie
Bunker from ‘All In The Family’ went to
PS 33.
Perhaps the most iconic eatery in Forest
Hills is Eddie’s Sweet Shop, which has been
an ice cream parlor at its 105-29 Metropolitan Ave. location since 1925. It was originally called ‘Witt’s Confectionery’ but was
The new york Corn Exchange building at Austin Street and Continental Avenue,
now home to a Boston Market and rite Aid pharmacy.
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With the creation of commerce,
beautiful colonial homes, and several routes of public transportation through the local townships,
then in 1940 came Borough Hall
and the County Courts on Queens
Boulevard.
Many tour Kew Gardens on
gentle walks through Forest Park
and to look at many of the stately
Neo-Tudor homes. Silent film star
Charlie Chaplin lived in an Arts and
Crafts style house on 82nd Drive.
He currently buried in Machpelah
Cemetery in nearby Glendale with
his wife and parents.
Maple Grove Cemetery, which helped triggered
Some astounding architecture
the development of the neighborhood of Kew can be found on near the east side
Gardens.
of the park on Forest Park Road,
Park Lane, Curzon Road, Mayfair
ew Gardens’ peaceful and his- Road and Grosvenor Road.
Some famous residents have been
torical streets were spurred on
in the 1870s by the develop- Broadway legend Will Rogers, composer
ment of the not-for-profit, nonsectarian Maple Grove Cemetery
which covers 65 acres of the town and then
the establishment of the Long Island Rail
Road on what was then Union Turnpike
and now called Queens Boulevard.
The LIRR added a ground-level station
later that cut through the Richmond Hill
Golf Club. The heirs of the Richmond Hill
developer Albon P. Man agreed to it and
then Kew Gardens was born. The town’s
namesake is the Royal Botanical Gardens in
Kew, England.
The Lefferts Boulevard overpass over
The addition of the subway station on the Kew Gardens station in the 1930s.
Queens Boulevard made the town popu- The overpass, designed like the famous
lar for developers and an influx of German Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy, has a
Jewish immigrants came to the area during commercial shopping strip that literally
World War II.
hangs over the tracks.
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Population: 25,769
Community Board: 9
Elected Officials: City Council: Karen Koslowitz; State Assembly: Michael Simanowitz,
Andrew Hevesi; State Senate: Leroy Comrie,
Joe Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace Meng
Precinct: 102nd
Public Library: None
Famous Natives: Burt Bacharach (musician); Rodney Dangerfield (comedian); Jerry
Springer (politician, talk show host)
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Kew Gardens
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CRONIN
George Gershwin, actress Dorothy Parker
and songwriter and singer Burt Bacharach.
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield, then
known as Jacob Cohen, lived with his family
in a three room apartment above a bar in
Kew Gardens. They were so poor they still
needed to take in borders.
The town is still haunted by the murder
of Catherine (Kitty) Genovese in 1964. Media outlets reported at the time of her death
that 38 people witnessed her murder by the
hands of a mugger by her apartment door at
82-70 Austin Street. Genovese was 28 yearsold and no one was reported to have called
police or tried to help. The story got nationwide attention and some say gave New
York the reputation as an uncaring community. The murder lead the NYPD to overhauling their telephone reporting and to
Kew Gardens creating neighborhood watch
programs.
the Briarwood Land Company which went
bankrupt in 1907. The company sold off
a lot of its land in the area during the
30’s, bringing a ton of purchasers ready
to develop. Residential homes were built
Population: 53,877
throughout to accommodate the new atCommunity Board: 8
tention. Patrons and visitors of the then
Elected Officials: City Council: Rory LancQueens based United Nations had comman; State Assembly: David Weprin, Michael
plexes built to accommodate them. Many
Simanowitz; State Senate: Leroy Comrie; U.S.
of the complexes went on to be occupied
House of Representatives: Grace Meng
but a number of varied ethnicities and
Precinct: 107th
races including Asians, African-Americans
and Hispanics. As time went on, more traPublic Library: Briarwood Branch
ditional single family homes began to pop
Famous Natives: Roy Wilkins (activist), Betty
up, filling out the neighborhood and giving it the identity it has today.
Friedan (writer); Steven Weber (actor)
Some of the developments have their
fair share of problem. The foundation of Briarwood has had a history issues including in 2001 when
several homes and buildings needed to be evacuated as the ground
below them began to crack. Many
speculated that the cracking was a
result of construction taking place
on loose soil during Briarwood’s
developmental boom decades before.
For fun in the sun, many residents go to Hoover Park, which
sports a number of facilities including basketball courts, handball courts and a playground for
young ones.
One of the several catholic high
schools in Queens, Catholic Archbishop Molloy High, is in Briarwood. Amongst its alumni is non- Union Turnpike at Main Street under construcother than current Governor of tion in the 1940’s.
New York Andrew Cuomo.
Briarwood
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B
riarwood is a mostly quiet and
tiny neighborhood surrounded
completely by some of Queens
busiest roadways (Union Turnpike, Parsons Boulevard, Hillside Avenue and the Van Wyck Expressway).
It is bordered by Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Hills and just north of
Jamaica, all areas known for their sense of
commerce while still maintaining residencies within it’s borders. Briarwood on the
other hand breaks that mold.
A mostly middle class area, Briarwood
is fairly new. It wasn’t referred to as Briarwood until the 1970’s. It was previously
known as northern Jamaica. But as the
area became more populated and began
to grow, the small area developed into its
own. In 1975, the neighborhood received
its own library, somewhat legitimizing the
succession from Jamaica.
The neighborhood gets its name from
Photo courtesy Queens Library
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I
n the early 1800s people were drawn
to Woodhaven by two racetracks that
occupied the area; Union Course and
Centerville Race Track. In 1835, a
businessman named John R. Pitkin
persuaded the Long Island Rail Road after
his plan to build a manufacturing plant
failed and he began promoting a village he
called Woodville.
By 1853, Pitkin started a newspaper and
the residents voted to change the name to
Woodhaven. The next year a tinware factory
opened and built housing for its eventual
2,100 employees. Over the course of the
next 30 years, the owners of the factory,
Charles Lalance and Florian Grosjean had
an influx of French workers move to the
neighborhood.
Irish and Italians moved to the neighbor-
hood closer to the turn of the twentieth
century as more public transit appear as
part of the elevated lines. By the mid-century there were more German and Polish
families beginning to appear.
There were only a few Victorian homes
with mainly one and two family homes
throughout the neighborhood.
Many older residents who grew up in
Woodhaven during the mid-twentieth century recall its small-town charm and mom
and pop shops that littered Jamaica and Atlantic Avenues.
Only two stores from that era left:
Schmidt’s Candy on Jamaica Avenue, which
opened in 1925 and is famous for its homemade chocolate, and is still run by the original Schmidt’s granddaughter and Neir’s
Tavern, known then as Union Course,
which opened in
1829, according
to the tavern’s
website.
Although
much of that history is no longer
visible, there are
some remnants.
The clock tower
Neir’s Tavern,
one of the
borough’s
oldest bars, it
dates back to
Andrew Jackson’s
presidency
I
n the twentieth century Richmond British while hiding behind the rocks and
Hill has become one of the most cul- in dense woods. It was the largest battle
turally diverse neighborhoods in the of the Revolutionary War, which the Concity. It is home to Guyanese, Sikh, tinental Army eventually lost, retreated to
Trinidadian, Columbian, Ecuadorian, Pennsylvania and forfeited New York Harbor to the British.
Indian and Hispanic cultures.
Today, many of the stately homes built
For the last 26 years one of the most popular events is the Hindu celebration of the by Manhattan businessmen in the midHoli holiday with the Phagwah parade. It nineteenth century are preserved with the
is a celebration of the Spring Equinox and help of the Richmond Hill Historical Society
thousands of Hindu and non-Hindu partici- and the Richmond Hill Block Association.
pates come to watch the floats, listen to the Both organizations have been commended
music and throw colorful powder into the by the Queens Historical Society for their
air and at each other as a joyful display of preservation efforts with the Queensmark
award which recognizes historical buildthe warmer weather.
As urban sprawl began in the mid-nine- ings in the borough that have not yet been
teenth century, local lawyer Albon P. Man historically landmarked.
The rush to protect Richmond Hill’s hisbought land in 1868 and hired landscape
architect Edward Richmond to lay the toric homes pushed into overdrive after
neighborhood. Many suspect the town was the former Vetter Mansion, later Simonson’s Funeral Home,
named after him. Over
at Hillside Avenue and
the next ten years,
Lefferts Boulevard –
streets, popular singleacross from the Richfamily Queen Anne Vicmond Hill Library- was
torian homes, and the
torn down in 2008 and
precursor to the Long
replaced by a shopping
Island Rail Road came
plaza. Next door to the
through the burgeonformer mansion, the
ing community.
historic
Richmond
Richmond Hill is
Hill Republican Club,
also home to much of
where Presidents TedForest Park’s 500 acres.
dy Roosevelt, Richard
In 1776, the Battle
Nixon and Ronald
of Long Island, one
of the Revolutionary The former Vetter Mansion in Rich- Reagan all spoke, has
War’s bloodiest battles mond Hill, later Simonson’s Fu- been renovated and its
took place near where neral Home, was one of the neigh- façade landmarked. It
the golf course’s club- borhood’s most famous Victorian reopened in 2014 as a
house now stands. It structures. It’s demolition in the catering hall.
One of the most
was told that rifleman mid 2000s caused a firestorm and
using guerrilla warfare ramped up conservation efforts in famous structures in
Richmond Hill is the
tactics fought off the the neighborhood.
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Richmond hill
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CRONIN
Photo Courtesy Woodhaven Historical Society
Woodhaven
By JON
CRONIN
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Population: 27,699
Community Board: 9
Elected Officials: State Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr.,
Assemblyman Mike Miller, Councilman Eric
Ulrich, U.S. Rep Nydia Velasquez.
Precinct: 102nd
Public Library: Woodhaven branch
Famous Natives: Adrien Brody (actor), George
Gershwin (composer), Danny Kaye (actor),
Dick Van Patten (actor), Mae West (actress),
Betty Smith (author), Fred Trump (developer)
from the old tinware factory, which closed
in 1955, now resides as part of Atlantic Avenue’s shopping district between 91st and
92nd Avenues.
Novelist Betty Smith wrote her classic “A
Tree Grows In Brooklyn” while living on
Forest Parkway.
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church has
stood since 1900, still serves parishioners.
The Wychoff-Snediker Family Cemetery is
located by the church and has grave stones
dated back to 1750. Both the cemetery and
church are on the national register.
In 2013, Woodhaven celebrated the refurbishing and reopening of the 110 yearold Forest Park Carousel after it closed in
2008. According to the Carousel’s website,
it was created by artist Daniel Carl Muller in
1903 and has resided in Forest Park since
1973.
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Population: 63,000
Community Boards: 9 and 10
Elected Officials: City Council: Eric Ulrich,
Ruben Wills, Karen Koslowitz; State Assembly:
Michael Miller, Michele Titus, Vivian Cook, David Weprin, Andrew Hevesi; State Senate: James
Sanders Jr., Joe Addabbo Jr., Leroy Comrie; US
House of Representatives: Gregory Meeks
Precincts: 102nd and 106th
Fire Department: Engine 270; Division 13;
Engine 294; Ladder 143
Public Libraries: Richmond Hill branch;
Lefferts branch
Famous Natives: Jacob Riis (journalist), Phil
Rizzuto (baseball player), Rodney Dangerfield
(comedian)
Triangle Hofbrau, originally built as a hotel in 1864, it operated as a restaurant from
1893 to 1999. During that time, national
celebrities like Babe Ruth, Mae West and
Senator Robert Wagner, Sr visited the establishment. It is also rumored that the author
of “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”, Ernest R.
Ball, penned the classic tune on the premises.
Jahn’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream and Restaurant operated on Hillside Avenue from
1923 to 2008. Jahn’s operated many locations throughout the city and Long Island.
The only one still open is located in Jackson
Heights. The ice cream parlor on Hillside
Avenue featured a nickelodeon piano and
nostalgic memorabilia from its years of operation. The original restaurant in the Bronx
opened in 1897.
T
hough it is 10 miles from the
nearest ocean, the sea breeze is
what brought people to Ozone
Park - and it’s what the neighborhood is named for.
The history of Ozone Park dates back to
1882, when the neighborhood was founded in what was then a rural part of Queens
County located on a plain sloping toward
Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
The neighborhood was settled near the
small hamlet of Centreville, near the current
location of Centreville Street and Albert Road.
Ozone Park got its name by the 19th Century
term for ocean breezes - ozone - meant to
attract urban dwellers from Manhattan and
Brooklyn to the suburban-like atmosphere
with sea breezes coming off the Atlantic.
The Long Island Rail Road came through
two years after the neighborhood’s founding, with two stations, the Ozone Park station at 101st Avenue and 100th Street, and
Aqueduct at the current Aqueduct-
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OzOne Park
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DOMENICK
RAFTER
T
ton Beach. The resort’s old casino then became Frank M. Charles Memorial Park.
Today, Howard Beach includes Lindenwood and Hamilton Beach. It is a predominantly white community with some Asian,
Hispanic and African-American residents.
It was one of the closest communities to
JFK Airport, which borders the town along
the eastern part of Hamilton Beach.
Hamilton Beach is accessible through
a narrow bridge and a foot path. It floods
consistently during high tide. This area was
also the one of the hardest hit by Hurricane
Sandy in 2012, with a large population of
the community being displaced for several
months. Four years later some homes have
yet to be completely
rebuilt. Updates on
flooding and hurricane
rebuilding
are seen on an almost daily basis in
the community. So
much so that a satellite office of BuildIt-Back, for that express use opened
two years ago in the
town.
Although
the
town has seen recent updates to its
sewer and drainage
system, the community still advocates
for better mediation
of tidal flow. There
is currently a multiJoseph P. Addabbo North Channel Bridge in the 1970’s.
million dollar proj-
he precursor to Howard Beach
was an upscale waterfront hotel
and casino, built in 1907, that
was meant to lure Manhattanites
out to the breezy 2,000 foot pier
that is now 98th Street.
The hotel was built by William Howard
and called the Victorian Howard Hotel and
overlooked Grassy Bay and Jamaica Bay. At
the time people were calling the area, ‘little Venice’ because of canals and bays that
snaked through the area.
Howard built a boardwalk and 18 bungalows that burnt down in a fire, he rebuilt the
area as an at-sea-level neighborhood and
called it Ramblersville then later Old Hamil-
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CRONIN
HOward BeacH
North Conduit Avenue subway station.
That triggered a population boom in the
neighborhood and over the next century,
In 1915, the subway came to the neighborhood when the elevated line over Liberty
Avenue, which now carries the ‘A’ train, was
constructed between Brooklyn and Lefferts
Boulevard, allowing for quicker commutes
to Manhattan.
By the mid-20th Century, the community
became a destination for first- and secondgeneration Italian and Irish immigrants and
grew to be one of the most prominent Italian-American communities in the country.
Ozone Park became well known for being
a working class community where faith and
family reigned supreme.
With the Italian-Americans came what
some argue is the best pizza in the United
States, and some of the best Italian food
this side of the Mediterranean Sea.
In the mid- to late-20th Century, Ozone
Park became a hub of Mafia activities. It was here
where large trucks stolen
from JFK Airport during
the Lufthansa heist were
hidden on residential
streets, and it was on 101st
Avenue where Mafia don
John Gotti set up shop at
the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club.
In 1984, Gotti’s reality show-star
daughter Victoria was married at
St. Mary Gate of Heaven Church,
the gothic-style green spiretopped house of worship that
dominates the neighborhood’s
skyline and proudly states the
The platform at the Rockaway Boulevard subway sta- neighborhood’s Roman Catholic
heritage.
tion – Ozone Park’s busiest transit hub – in 1982.
STATS
Population: 21,376
Elected Officials: City Council: Eric Ulrich,
Ruben Wills State Assembly: Michael Miller,
Phil Goldfeder, Michele Titus. State Senate:
Joe Addabbo Jr., James Sanders Jr., Michael
Gianaris. U.S. House of Representatives: Nydia
Velasquez, Hakeem Jeffries, Gregory Meeks
Precincts: 106th, 102nd
Ladder 128, Ladder 142
Public Library: Ozone Park branch (closed
until 2017)
Famous Natives: Bernadette Peters (actress);
Jack Lord (actor); Carol Heiss (figure skater);
Cyndi Lauper (singer/actress); Charles Carmada (astronaut); Peter Facinelli (actor); Tom
Von Essen (FDNY Commissioner)
Indeed SMGH is one of several Catholic
churches in the community, which include
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Elizabeth and St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr
churches.
Since the late 1980s, the demographic of
the neighborhood has changed dramatically. Though there is still a noticeable ItalianAmerican presence, a growing population of
Indo-Caribbeans – especially Guyanese and
Trinidadian – and South Asians have made
Ozone Park their home. Today, Ashrams,
gurdwaras and mosques join the imposing
Catholic churches, as Ozone Park becomes
a center of faith and family for another generation of immigrants.
STATS
Population: 26,148
Community Board: 10
Elected Officials: City Council: Eric Ulrich;
State Assembly: Phil Goldfeder; State Senate:
Joe Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of Representatives: Hakeem Jeffries
Precinct: 106th
Public Library: Howard Beach branch
Famous Natives: DJ Skribble (musician);
Vitas Gerulatis (tennis player); Pia Toscano
(singer); Jack Kerouac (author)
ect run by the Army Corp of Engineers at
Spring Creek Park to counter-act the flow of
high-tide and storm waters.
One of the biggest events ever to befall
the small seaside suburb is the consequences of an attack on three African-American
young men by 12 white teenagers in 1986.
The three young men went to a local pizza
place to ask the use the phone after their car
broke down. They were met with racial slurs
and chased out of the establishment by the
pack of white teenagers. One of the AfricanAmerican men ran out into Cross Bay Boulevard, hit by a car and died.
Although the town made efforts to educate their youth about a multi-cultural society through the formation of Concerned
Citizens for South Queens in 1988, this incident has unfortunately tied the town to
racism.
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STATS
Population: 48,226
Community Board: 10 and 12
Elected Officials: Councilman: Ruben Wills;
Assemblywoman: Michelle Titus; Assemblyman: Phil Goldfeder
Precincts: 106th and 113th
Battalion 54
Public Library: South Ozone Park branch
Famous Natives: Nicki Minaj (singer, actress), Debra Wilson (comedian)
occurs overhead as the nation’s busiest airport goes on about bringing in people from
all over the world.
South Ozone Park has appeared in a number of films and television shows including,
The Sopranos, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas and
sitcom The King of Queens. In 1995, Pope
John Paul II visited Queens at the Aqueduct
Racetrack where over 75,000 people came out
to see him. In 2011, popular Italian eatery Don
Peppe for well over 50 years made a prominent
appearance in the HBO show “Entourage.”
resorts world Casino, opened in 2011
Since water is literally everywhere in
n the other side of the Cross
Bay
Veterans
Memorial Broad Channel, naturally the island is vulBridge lies Broad Channel. nerable to flooding in extreme weather
The neighborhood is the only situations. Artificial canals separate deadpopulated island on Jamaica end residential streets. There is no natural
Population: 3,000
Bay. It has a population of only 3,000. Sur- gas line to the neighborhood, and residents
Community Board: 10 and 12
rounded by water on all sides, its only con- use costlier propane to heat their homes.
Elected Officials: City Council: Eric Ulrich;
To get to any place on the island by car,
nection to mainland Queens is two bridges
State Assembly: Phil Goldfeder; State Senate:
one has to use a bridge. To the north, Addand one subway.
Joe Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of RepresentaFor many years, Broad Channel was a abbo Memorial Bridge connects to Howard
tives: Greg Meeks
remote fishing village. This predominantly Beach. To the south, the Cross Bay Bridge
Precinct: 100th
working-class Caucasian neighborhood had leads to the Rockaways peninsula.
Fire Department: Broad Channel Volunteer
Broad Channel Park, which opened in
the opportunity to grow after Cross Bay
Fire Department
Boulevard opened in 1924. Prior to Euro- May 1995 is located at the southernmost
Public Library: Broad Channel branch
pean settlement, the Jameco and Canarsie end of Broad Channel along Jamaica Bay.
bands of Lenape Native Americans inhabited It consists of two grass baseball fields, one
Famous Native: Don Riepe Jr. (environmenthe area. During the 17th century, Dutch asphalt baseball field, four basketball stantalist)
settlers established a community on the is- dards, a roller hockey rink, and a small play
land and began harvesting oysters, clams, area.
Another park in Broad Channel is Gene served as the president of the Broad Chanshrimp, and fish.
In 1915, the city leased the island to the Gray Park, named after community activ- nel Athletic Club and was a community footBroad Channel Corporation, which in turn ist Gene Gray. Gray was involved in many ball coach for more than twenty years. After
leased properties to private individuals for neighborhood youth programs. He also his death in 1973, Broad Channel Civic Asthe development of summer
sociation and Queens Community
bungalows and houses. The
Board 14 decided to name the park
island gained popularity as a
after Gray to recognize his years of
quaint and relaxing retreat for
volunteer work and dedication to
city dwellers seeking a break
the neighborhood’s youth.
from the everyday hustle and
The Fire Department of New
bustle of urban life.
York does not have a fire station
Broad Channel is within the
on Broad Channel, but the comJamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge,
munity has a volunteer fire compart of Gateway National Recrepany, a nonprofit organization
ation Area, which is part of the
that works with local FDNY units.
U.S. parks system. Boating and
Established in 1905, the Broad
fishing is a way of life for some
Channel volunteer fire departresidents. Smity’s Fishing Stament is one of only nine voluntion is a popular facility for boat weiss’, a popular Broad Channel destination in the early- to teer firehouses in the city of New
rentals.
York.
mid-20th century.
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South ozone Park
Broad Channel
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F
or a neighborhood as small as
South Ozone Park, many people
probably wouldn’t associate the
Southeast Queens town with
bursting enthusiasm and being a
bustling cornerstone of commerce and international transportation.
But in the last decade in particular, South
Ozone Park has had arguably more eyes,
and more patrons contributing to its economic growth than a majority of the other
neighborhoods in the borough.
At the turn of the 20th century, South
Ozone Park was a simple town with mostly farmers. In the 1920’s however, that all
changed. Developer David P. Leahy pushed
to make affordable housing for working
class families which quickly brought Italian
and Irish immigrants to the neighborhood.
The Aqueduct Racetrack, built in 1894, was
able to further proliferate the developing
neighborhood in its early years.
Bordered by Richmond Hill, Howard
Beach, Jamaica, and of course Ozone Park
– which is west not north – South Ozone
Park is a bit of a buffer between southeast
and south Queens. As a result, the neighbor
gets to enjoy the best of both worlds. It’s
both parts suburban and residential, qualities that can best be used to describe southern Queens towns like Howard Beach and
Ozone Park, while still having the urban,
carnival-like, nightlife appeal of a Downtown Jamaica’s commercial strips and Richmond Hill’s Caribbean club scene.
Part of its robust culture comes from
his diverse population. Once consisting of
mostly Italian and Irish Americans as previously mentioned, South Ozone Park is now
home to Asian, Latino and Caribbean Americans. Because of the diversity, the Queens
Library reflects it by offering a wide variety
of collected works relating to Haitian and
Latin culture as well as works on the Black
experience.
South Ozone Park is also the home of
one of the biggest developments in the
borough of the last few years: The Resorts World New York City Casino. Built in
2011, the casino and entertainment venue
has brought some of the biggest names in
show biz to Queens, as well as a slew of
New Yorkers and tourists that otherwise
wouldn’t have paid a visit to the World’s
Borough. Since opening it’s doors, Resorts
World has brought in hundreds of millions
of dollars in revenue. It also carries the distinction of being the first legal casino in the
five boroughs.
South Ozone Park also has the Aqueduct
Racetrack – which shares space with the
casino. Every year, the track brings in hundreds of horse racing enthusiasts for the annual competitions and festivities.
And with JFK Airport in its borders,
South Ozone Park is one of the first neighborhoods that many will see when arriving
in New York City. In fact, many residents
can attest to the amount of air traffic that
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Aqueduct race Track
By Trone
DowD
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houses the Tabernacle of Prayer Church.
Also located on Merrick Boulevard is the
first Black church in Jamaica, the Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church of
New York, which was established in 1834.
Former U.S. Congressman Reverend Dr.
Floyd H. Flake leads the devotional services
for a congregation of more than 18,400.
A strong black presence in Jamaica’s
churches is related to the fact that the neighborhood has a history of producing Civil
Rights leaders and activists. Rufus King, one
of the signers of the Constitutions was an
ardent opponent of slavery. He also served
as a U.S. senator for 19 years and an ambassador to England for 10. King died in 1827
and was buried in Grace Church Cemetery
on Jamaica Avenue.
King’s son, John followed in his father’s
footsteps and continued the fight against
slavery in the New York State Assembly,
in the Senate, in Congress, and during his
time as Governor of New York. The family
home, the 11-acre King Manor was turned
into a museum in 1900 and is located on
151-01 Jamaica Avenue.
Assata Olugbala Shakur, whose birth
name is JoAnne Deborah Byron was also
born in Jamaica and spent the first three
years of her life there. Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black
Liberation Army.
Jazz musicians Albert J. Johnson, Al
Sears, Buck Clayton, Buddy Johnson, Char-
O
nly a hop, skip, and a jump
away from John F. Kennedy
International Airport is Jamaica- a middle-class and ethnically diverse neighborhood
made up of Caribbean, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, and African-American communities.
The revitalization of Jamaica’s downtown
area and the launch of the Air Train, which
provides commuters and travelers an easier
way to reach the airport, has boosted Jamaica’s economy.
In 1655, English settlers from Hempstead,
Long Island established a town called Rusdorf. Eventually, the town became known as
Jamaica. Even though Jamaican immigrants
reside in the neighborhood, the name actually came from the Jameco Indians who first
inhabited the area. In olden times, Jamaica
served as colonial trading post and became
a hub for commerce, education, finance,
government, entertainment, and transportation.
The Queen’s County Clerk office and
the New York State Supreme Court House
are both located in Jamaica. Transportation
played a key role in Jamaica’s prosperity in
its early days. Jamaica Avenue, which was
previously known as Jamaica Plank Road
was an Indian trail and colonial road that
stretched from Brooklyn to Long Island.
The Spanish Baroque-style Loews Valencia
located on Merrick Boulevard was once the
largest movie theater in Queens. Today, it
Rufus King Manor in 1923, where Rufus
King, one of America’s Founding Fathers,
an anti-slavery activist and presidential
candidate, lived and died.
lie Mingus all hail from Jamaica. Live Jazz
concerts are even held annually at the Air
Train station. Another famous musician
who is a native of South Jamaica is none
other than Grammy-winning rapper Curtis
James Jackson III better known by his stage
name as 50 Cent. Former New York governor Mario Cuomo’s parents who were Italian immigrants also lived in South Jamaica
at one point in time.
For lovers of music, dance, and art, the
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning located
in the heart of downtown offers a variety of
classes, programs, exhibitions, performances, and shows. The center’s annual Black
History Month art exhibit is one of the most
popular in Queens.
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Jamaica
By KULSOOM
KHAN
File Photo
Jamaica Hospital as it looked in the 1970s.
Population: 217,000
Elected Officials: City Council: I. Daneek
Miller, Rory Lancman, Ruben Wills; State
Assembly: Vivian Cook, Alicia Hyndman, David
Weprin, VACANT; State Senate: Tony Avella,
Leroy Comrie, James Sanders Jr,.; U.S. House
of Representatives: Greg Meeks, Grace Meng
Precincts: 103rd, 113th
Engine 315, Ladder 125, Ladder 127, Ladder
133
Public Library: Central Library-Jamaica
Famous Natives: Lamar Odom (basketball
player); Richard Parsons (businessman);
Khandi Alexander (actress); Sheila JacksonLee (politician); Debi Mazar (actress, dancer);
Rufus King (Founding Father); Tina Charles
(athlete)
The ‘el’ on Jamaica Avenue before it was removed in 1988, left, and immediately after it was torn down.
ATTORNEYS
James F. Rooney, Esq ....86-07
Marianne Gonzales ........95-07
AWARDS
Capo’s Awards................79-13
BANK
Queens County...............80-35
Savings Bank..................93-22
Chase Bank ..................84-01a
Community Federal
Savings Bank..................89-07
BAKERY
Pan Ugo Bakery .............84-42
La Gitana Bakery ............90-12
Paneorama .....................95-20
BEAUTY SUPPLY
Sumi Eyebrows...............79-17
Mehak Beauty Supply.....87-12
Pretty Beauty Supply ......87-16
Coco Nail and Spa..........87-24
Miss Nails .......................90-22
I Stars Beauty Supply .....91-05
BICYCLE SHOP
Bike Lane........................85-13
BUTCHER - MARKET
La Palma Meat Market ...84-25
CATERING HALL
Woodhaven Manor .........96-01
CELLULAR & PHONE
RELATED STORES
Orange Technology ........75-12
Boost Mobile ...................80-10
Cricket Wireless..............80-27
Universal Multi Services... 84-11
Zee Wireless Corner.......85-07
T-Mobile ..........................90-07
Sprint PCS ......................90-24
CPR Wireless .................93-29
Cellular Explosion ...........95-07
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
WBID/Greater Woodhaven
Development Corp........84-01b
Woodhaven Residents’
Block Association..........84-20b
CLEANERS
Wash & Dry Round the Clock
Laundromat ....................78-07
H.M.Y. Laundry ...............84-14
Spirare French Cleaners...84-20A
Florence Cleaners ..........84-29
CLOTHING - ATHLETIC
Sports Lane ....................85-15
DRIVING SCHOOL
Trama’s Auto School.......87-15
HOBBY STORE
Planet Hobbywood ......... 86-11
LADIES’ APPAREL
Wood Story .....................80-33
Rainbow Shop ................85-12
Baby Blue Ladies............91-17
MEN’S
Valerie’s Men & Women’s ....80-17
R.S. Army/Navy ..............91-13
MULTISERVICES
Woodhaven Multiservices ...87-09
CONFECTIONERY
Schmidt’s Candy.............94-15
FLORIST
Park Place Florist ...........88-16
Lands Flowers ................92-03
FOOT CARE
Podiatry ..........................86-12
Podiatrist Doctor .............87-24
Woodhaven Footcare ..... 95-11
FURNITURE
J&L Furniture ..................78-19
The Home Furn. Ctr. .......80-38
HEALTH
Health Store Vitamins .....84-09
ICE CREAM
Baskin Robbins...............84-13
Go Natural Yogurt ...........89-18
Baskin Robbins...............92-17
INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
LaBella Investigations .......84-01
OPTICAL
Woodhaven Optical ........89-21
Evan David Optician .......90-08
Price Optical ...................93-01
LIQUOR STORES
Dexter Wine & Spirits .....75-13
Rich Haven Liquors ........ 85-11
Liquor Store ....................89-21
Deegan’s Wine & Liquors .....95-19
MARKET
C-Town ...........................74-39
Compare .........................77-20
Sam’s Deli ......................80-01
Sam’s Grill ......................80-08
87th Street Deli ...............87-08
88 Deli and Grill ..............88-01
Fish Store .......................84-30
Gratia Market ..................84-31
Scaturro’s .......................84-39
85th Deli .........................85-01
Harry’s Grocery Store .....86-06
Jamaica Gourmet Deli ....89-02
Fine Fare ........................90-03
Minimarket ......................95-13
C-Town Bravo .................98-02
MEDICAL
Yellowstone Physical Therapy
and Medical Office .......... 88-11
INSURANCE
State Farm Insurance .....79-22
Allstate ............................84-15
Ohlert & Ruggiere ........... 89-11
JEWELRY
Prime ..............................91-04
PARTY STORE
Paola’s Party Land .........89-06
PHARMACY
Health Max .....................80-09
Duane Reade .................80-30
Queens Care Pharmacy ...84-46
Rite Aid ...........................89-10
Atlas Pharmacy ..............92-18
Medex Pharmacy............96-02
SHOES
KMC Orthopedic Shoes ...86-20
Payless Shoe Store ........89-22
TATTOO PARLORS
Liberating Art Ink...............90-22
Beaver Tattoo ...................94-02
PIZZERIAS
Lane Pizzeria ..................75-19
Domino’s Pizza ...............78-02
A Taste of Italy ................84-07
Sal’s Pizzeria ..................85-07
DeAleo’s Pizzeria ...........90-10
Joe’s Pizza and Pasta ....95-08
PRINTING
Beat the Clock ................97-13
RESTAURANTS
May May Kitchen
(Chinese Food) ...............74-22
Fried Chicken Restaurant ...74-38
King Wok Chinese Food ...79-09
Shanghai Kitchen ........... 80-11
Subway ...........................80-28
And .................................92-12
Frank’s ............................80-29
Fresco TortillasChina House ...................84-17
Palace Fried Chicken .....84-50
U-Me Sushi .....................85-03
Double Happy Chinese...85-18
Thai Restaurant ..............86-05
Kentucky Fried Chicken.....87-17
Tropical Restaurant ........88-18
Ho Wan Take-Out ...........88-22
McDonald’s .....................91-01
Avenue Diner (Formerly Forest
View Restaurant) ............91-06
Carnival House (Chinese) .. 92-09
Dunkin’ Donuts ...............84-13
& .....................................92-17
Popeye’s Chicken ...........92-20
Hetmans Polish Deli .......94-14
Manor German Deli ........94-12
Independence Cafe ........94-16
Dumpling House .............95-12
Cheung King ...................97-17
El Anzualo.......................98-01
UPHOLSTERY
Polo’s Upholstery............77-09
Imperial Upholstering......86-08
VARIETY
Melanie’s Gift Shop ........79-17
Gift Shop.........................79-16
99¢ Store ........................80-16
DD II ...............................80-19
GEM ...............................84-33
Variety Store ...................85-08
Hallmark Cards ...............86-03
Discount Express............91-04
Priceless .........................91-07
$5 And Up-Deals ............96-01
Located Exit 17 on the Belt Parkway, Cross bay Blvd. to Woodhaven Blvd.
Also by “J” Train and Jamaica Ave. Busses
Most Stores Open Late on Friday & Saturday, Also Some Open on Sunday
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STATS
Population: 36,496
Community Board: 13
Elected Officials: City Council: Ruben Wills;
State Assembly: Alicia Hyndman, Vivian Cook,
Michele Titus; State Senate: James Sanders Jr.;
U.S. House of Representatives: Greg Meeks
Precinct: 113th
Public Libraries: South Jamaica branch,
Baisley Park branch
Famous Natives: 50 Cent (rapper), Mario
Cuomo (Governer of NY), Bob Beamon (athlete), Canibus (rapper)
the ducks that live there.
(Left): Baisley Pond Park, one of Southeast Queens’ most
frequented green spaces. (Above): The AirTrain above the
Van Wyck Expressway. Its construction in the early 2000s
had plenty of community opposition in South Jamaica.
File Photos
South JAmAicA
Boulevard in St. Albans. Also within the
community are the primary thoroughfares
of South Jamaica, which include Baisley,
Foch, Linden, Guy R. Brewer and Sutphin
Boulevards.
The community is predominantly African American with the majority being of
Afro-Caribbean descent. During recent
years, the area has seen an increase in the
Hispanic community with people from
Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
Dominican Republic. Guyanese and Bangladeshi also make up a large portion of
people coming to join the South Jamaica
community.
Baisley Pond Park in the southern end
of the neighborhood is an important recreational space for residents and is often
crowded on summer afternoons with locals
enjoying the outdoors. The picturesque
pond in the center of the park is often used
to sail model boats and is known locally for
outh Jamaica is known as a working class neighborhood, located
in downtown Jamaica, with oneand two-family houses ranging
from colonials that were built in
the 1960s to new developments, like public
housing and some smaller apartment buildings.
There are also quite a few hotels located
in the district due to the fact that the John
F. Kennedy airport isn’t too far from the
area. The Airtrain JFK route helps to transport travelers and the community to and
from the airport. The southern extension of
the New York City subway line is located at
Archer Avenue, where the E, J and Z lines
are.
The area faces the Long Island Rail Road
tracks, Jamaica Avenue and Liberty Avenue,
which is to the north of South Jamaica.
The Van Wyck Expressway is located to the
west and continues east heading to Merrick
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A house in posh Addisleigh Park, where
many jazz musicians called home.
St. AlbAnS
File Photo
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t. Albans is a cultural touchstone
of Southeastern Queens. It has
been a constantly evolving neighborhood, shifting alongside black
culture through the years. The
neighborhood is a place where the most
talented African-Americans of the era have
either been raised or chose to live, it is a
hub of black history, and serves as proof
of some great accomplishments within the
community.
St. Albans, named for an old town in
England, was first settled in 1892. Starting
as a small town with the purchase of a Linden Boulevard farm, the town slowly began
to develop over the next few years. With the
help of a brand new railroad and a post office, all built within the seven years of the
original settlement, it was just a matter of
time before St. Albans on its way to becom-
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ing a decent place for folks to move in. By
1900, the land became a full fledged neighborhood with over 600 residents settled in
and making a living for themselves.
As common with most Southeast Queens
neighborhoods, St. Albans had a clear distinction pre and post World War II. During the 20th century’s earliest decades,
most of the people moving in were middle
class whites from European countries like
Ireland and Germany. After World War II
however, there was a big shift in population. As blacks began to rise to the middle
class of America, they began to move into
nicer, mixed neighborhoods like St. Albans. Unhappy with their new neighbors,
many of the long time residents harassed
the African-American families moving in.
Unfortunately for them, they quickly realized their new black neighbors were pretty
serious about staying in St. Albans despite
the barrage of race-based harassment. It
wasn’t long before white residents chose
to abandon ship rather than giving the idea
of co-existence the old freshman try.
Left with the neighborhood all to themselves, St. Albans became rich with black
culture at a rapid pace. Some of the biggest
names in funk and jazz fled to the live in St.
Albans. The trend of the arts growing out
of the neighborhood followed as hip-hop
began to emerge during the mid-eighties.
From Q-Tip to LL Cool J, hip-hip was just
as prevalent here as it was in the Bronx and
Hollis next door.
Addisleigh Park, the upscale portion
of the neighborhood, has always been a
standout. Families who initially moved
here were seen as those who were able to
move up the economically, as the houses
STATS
Population: 34,882
Community Board: 12
Miller; State Assembly: Alicia Hyndman; State
Senate: Leroy Comrie; U.S. House of Representatives: Greg Meeks
Precinct: 113th
Battalion 54; Ladder 133
Public Library: St. Albans branch
Famous Natives: Q-Tip (musician); Fats
Waller (jazz musician) W.E.B. DuBois (author)
were particularly beautiful within the community. Built in 1926, it was just north of
the over 50-acre expansion known as Roy
Wilkins Park. Named after the civil rights activist and one of the most prominent members of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins Park features
baseball fields, basketball courts, handballs
sections and more for visitors. The park also
features a community center for programs
and events held by local civic groups.
St. Albans is also home to a number of
different houses of worship, many of which
are well known in the community due to
their long-standing relationship with residents. From the St. Albans Congregational
Church, started by Rev. Robert Ross Johnson
who was a founder of York College, to the
Beth Elohim Hebrew Congregation, home
of the black Jews in the neighborhood, St.
Albans has no shortage of places to practice
one’s religion.
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one point in time, the neighborhood stood the test of time and
become a model of how a community should function.
Mostly a suburban area, Rosedale is
made up primarily of single family housing and middle class New Yorkers. Though
there are a number of major commuter arteries that run through the neighborhood,
including Francis Lewis Boulevard, Sunrise
Highway, Brookville Boulevard and the
Laurelton Pkwy, Rosedale keeps its suburban feel intact.
Unlike many other parts of the borough,
Rosedale as a neighborhood has history
stretching even past the Revolutionary War.
In 1647, brothers Christopher and Thomas Foster settled in current day Rosedale,
calling the town Foster Meadow. It wasn’t
until the 1800’s that the development of
a commuter friendly rail began to attract
people from around the city. Within the following 20 years, the town became known
as Rosedale, many say after the roses that
often grew there at the time.
File Photo
Rosedale
By TRONE
DOWD
Meadowmere, a low-lying section of
Rosedale.
STATS
File Photo
aurelton is indicative of the kind
of beauty you can only find in
Queens. In name alone, Laurelton
carries a kind of regality reflected
in the neighborhood’s architecture, green space and mostly African American residency. While New York City as a
whole has the sort of beauty you’d have to
see through the grit in order to truly appreciate, Laurelton is gorgeous both visually
and historically.
The neighborhood was founded by former state Sen. William H. Reynolds at the
turn of the 20th century. Named after the
vibrant plant life in the area, Laurelton was
the next project for the senator who would
later go on to settle what is now Long Beach
in Long Island. Single family homes were
built as Jewish, Irish, Italian and German
families began to move in, much like the
other Southeast Queens neighborhoods
around it. Homes were built beautifully to
giving the neighborhood it’s upscale feel
that it still retains today. As Laurelton grew
in popularity, more homes were built to
keep up with the demand.
By the 1960’s however, the population
shifted. Laurelton, which had built up a
reputation of being a great middle class
neighborhood for nearly half a century,
began to attract the then growing middle
class of working African-Americans looking
to settle down and raise a family as well.
Not happy with the trend, a large portion of
the residents that lived there for years left
in favor of areas affluent blacks were not
moving to. The neighborhood, became a
thriving one of note as it was now a mostly
black neighborhood. Mirroring the trends
Laurelton saw in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s,
By TRONE
DOWD
A house on Springfield Boulevard in
Laurelton, 1927.
minorities from Caribbean countries like
Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti began to move into thriving neighborhood
during the 1980’s, making up most of the
population that lives there today.
Of the major roads in Laurelton (which
include Brookville Boulevard, Francis
Lewis Boulevard, Merrick Boulevard and
Springfield Boulevard), commercial development began forming along Merrick
Boulevard. Referred to as the “Laurelton
Mile,” the strip plays its part as the commercial center for Laurelton, an alternative to making a trip to the commercialized
Jamaica Avenue. The strip consists mostly
of small, local family businesses that have
been trucking along for years.
The neighborhood has been self sustaining for decades thanks to the community’s
close knit nature. There have been multiple initiatives done by local civic groups to
help assist and of the neighborhoods shortcomings. For example, the Queens Library
Laurelton Branch quickly filled the gap of
after school and extracurricular programs
when parents noticed that their children
Like many other parts of Queens at
the turn of the 20th century, many fled to
Rosedale to get away from the overpopulated streets of Manhattan and to a lesser extent
Brooklyn. The new population that found
itself in the newly established Rosedale was
mostly Irish and German, with Jewish and
Italian families following shortly after the
conclusion of World War II.
Unfortunately, like many other Southeast Queens neighborhoods at the time,
the peace turned to chaos when black families began to move into the neighborhood
during the 1970’s. Unhappy with their new
middle class African-American neighbors,
the predominantly white residents immediately started trouble with them. Racial tensions grew as the old clashed with the new.
In time, violence and racial issues became
the defining trait of the neighborhood.
While there were attempts to quell the
heated tensions, like the joint initiative to
create a civilian security patrol volunteer
group headed by the 113th Precinct and
the Rosedale Civic Association, families
frustrated by working middle-class black
Americans moving into the neighborhood
eventually moved out. This left behind
what is mostly found in Rosedale today;
a predominantly black middle class with
small white population. Many blacks who
live there today are of Caribbean descent,
including Haitian, Hispanic and Jamaican.
Since those times, Rosedale has become
something entirely different. It is a neighborhood defined by it’s friendly and cooperative and close knit nature. With the
exception of the airplanes that often fly
overhead, the streets are quiet and tranquil
and its aesthetic is picturesque. A single
Population: 26,604
Community Board: 13
Elected Officials: City Council: Donovan
Richards, State Assembly: Michele Titus, State
Senate: James Sanders Jr., U.S, Representative: Greg Meeks
Precincts: 105th
Fire Department: Engine 314, Battalion 54
Public Library: Laurelton Branch
Famous Natives: Bernie Madoff (investment
banker, con man)
didn’t have those luxuries locally. When the
expansive 105th Precinct became a bit of an
obstacle for law enforcement to navigate in
a timely matter, local stores agrees to enact
a “Safe Haven” initiative which would allow
residents who feel unsafe to wait inside of
stores until law enforcement arrives. All of
these aspects are why Laurelton is a bit of a
model neighborhood.
Laurelton remains beautiful over the
years thanks to the tremendous pride the
community takes in their neighborhood.
Thanks to groups like the Laurelton Beautification Club starting in 2011 and the Laurelton Garden Club before it, Laurelton has
reminded a sight to behold, staying true to
the origin of its name.
Located in the “transportation desert” of
deep Southeast Queens, Laurelton does have
a Long Island Railroad stop. The LIRR makes
it easier to get to the more industrialized and
easy to access parts of the borough and city.
STATS
Population: 30,449
Community Board: 13
Richards, State Assembly: Alicia Hyndman,
Michele Titus, State Senate: Leroy Comrie;
U.S, Representative. Greg Meeks
Precinct: 105th
Public Library: Rosedale Branch
Famous Natives: Barbara Bach (actress,
model, wife of Ringo Starr); Aida Turturro
(actress); John Turturro (actor); Herb Score
(baseball player, announcer)
stroll through Brookville Park is a testament
to just how unique Rosedale, and it’s sister
neighborhood Springfield Gardens, are.
Brookville Park is, as state Sen. James
Sanders Jr. calls it, “a jewel of Rosedale,” one
that many residents have come to take pride
in. Featuring a man made lake, basketball
courts, tennis courts, barbecue pits and a
number of other facilities open to the public, Rosedale’s Brookville is one of the better
parks in the entire city. It features a number
of different programs offered to locals young
and old, including tennis lessons, a staple of
the park. Started by local Derek Dilworth,
JFK Airport’s first African American air traffic control supervisor, often volunteered his
time to give youths free tennis lessons at the
park. In 2001, Dilworth had the tennis courts
that he used named after him in his honor
two years after his death.
B
O
nce an insignificant part of the out in Long Island today, the neighborborough filled with farmland hood made for a great place to settle down
and wild woods, Cambria and raise a family the good old fashioned
Heights soon became one of hard working American way.
However, nearly 40 years after Cambria
the more culturally distinct
parts of the city, specifically for the African Heights was founded, things began to shift
American community. That wasn’t always for the worse, as the predominantly white
Americans of the neighborhood took issue
the case though.
Cambria Heights is located fifty feet with a big change coming their way: Afriabove the sea level and is considered to be can Americans.
New York, though often times not reone of the highest points in all of Queens.
To the east, the neighborhood is bordered membered as one of the many states facing
by Nassau County, something that is re- serious civil rights issues in America, was
flected in its quiet and suburban like vibe. not a state that was impartial to the injusMostly residential, it isn’t much of a sur- tices many black Americans faced in this
prise that Cambria Heights received much country. In fact, New York City was just as
of its identity from the people who reside harsh and unrelenting on Black Americans
as any other place had been, if they were
in the neighborhood.
When it was first developed in 1923 af- to step out of their unspoken designated
ter being purchased by local real estate areas like Jamaica.
William Durham, the
agent Oliver B. LaFraniere
first African American to
transformed the mostly
move into the neighborrural area into a residenhood in 1960, bought his
tial neighborhood worth
house for a cool $38,000.
moving into. At least that’s
Unfortunately for him, his
what was conveyed pretnew neighbors did not
ty early on. It took very
take a liking to a black
little time for people and
family daring to move into
families migrating from
their neighborhood. The
countries out in Europe.
Durham family was victim
German, Italian and Irish
to a number of threats and
folks hoping to get away
attacks including rocks befrom the overcrowding in
ing thrown at their winBrooklyn and Manhattan
dows and burning crosses
were quick to call Cambria
Heights home. With wide The grave of rabbi Menachem left in front of their home.
But as the 60s’ raged
streets, gorgeous greenery Mendel Schneerson, the late
and an overall suburban leader of the Lubavitch move- on into the 70s’, things
personality similar to what ment, in Montefiore Cemetery started to shift once again.
The predominantly white
New Yorkers would find in Cambria Heights.
File Photo
Cambria HeigHtS
By Trone
DowD
ordered
by
JFK
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and Jamaica
Bay, Springfield Gardens
is another one of Southeast Queens middle-class
majority black neighborhoods, filled with one and
two family homes and a
quiet, suburban vibe.
Originally going by
the name Spring Field
in the mid-17th century
when it was first settled
upon, the neighborhood
The Springfield School, now PS 37, in 1927.
was fairly unremarkable.
While it held the natural beauty many would Manhattan in particular. Springfield Garcome to expect when exploring Southeast dens quickly became a thriving neighborQueens, with its rich greenery, streams, and hood for middle-class families.
Although the neighborhood saw a great
land ready for farming, it was scarcely used
for decades, occasionally supplying other boom in the 1920’s and 1930’s, there was
parts of the borough and city with goods. a major shortcoming that affected residents
During the Revolutionary War, Springfield at the time and still affect them today; The
Gardens farmers supplied the British with lack of a proper systems in place to stave off
the large amount of water that come along
wood and other supplies.
It wasn’t until the 20th century that a during storms. The Brookville section of
new eye was turned to Springfield. In 1906, Springfield Gardens, with its relatively low
the Springfield Gardens development which elevation, has had problems with flooding
would bring affordable housing to the most- on a regular basis for decades, being called
ly inactive area was completed. The develop- a disaster zone on a federal and state level
ment would be just the start of the neighbor- on more than one occasion. Over the years,
hood now known as Springfield Gardens, as there had been half measures taken by city
a both a post office and a station built to be agencies to come up with a solution to the
a part of the Long Island Rail Road would be longstanding problem. But it wasn’t until
the Bloomberg administration in 2003 that
enacted near the new housing.
As expected, with the new post office and a long term fix was put forward with the
nearby rail allowing residents to commute to help of the Department of Environmental
work, people flocked to the neighborhood. Protection. It is still an issue today, howNew residents were made up of people leav- ever, the push to solve the problem contining the crowded sections of Brooklyn and ues. The Queens Tribune reported last May
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Springfield gardenS
By Trone
DowD
Population: 39,827
Richards, Ruben Wills; State Assembly: Alicia
Hyndman, Michele Titus; State Senate: James
Sanders Jr., Leroy Comrie; U.S. House of Representatives: Greg Meeks
Precincts: 103rd and 113th
Public Library: Rochdale Village branch
Famous Native: Anthony Mason (basketball
player)
that Mayor Bill de Blasio would put $1.3 billion behind project curtailing the flooding
issue in Springfield Gardens.
Springfield Gardens just last year, took
a huge step forward on the front of cutting
harmful emissions on behalf of the entire
city. The Queens Tribune sister paper, the
Press of Southeast Queens reported last September that a three story building located
in Springfield Gardens JFK Airport Park is
actually home to the largest solar energy
supplier in the entire borough. In a partnership between Con Edison, real estate developers, New York State Energy Research
and Development Authority, Solar investors
and Bloomberg LP, the 5,500 solar panels
hoisted on top of the facility power two
Bloomberg buildings in Manhattan, cutting
carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 1.1 million pounds a year.
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Population: 20,128
Community Board: 13
Miller; State Assembly: vacant; State Senate:
Leroy Comrie; U.S. House of Representatives:
Greg Meeks
Precinct: 105th
Public Library: Cambria Heights branch
Famous Natives: Dennis Walcott (Former
Schools Chancellor and current Queens
Library CEO); Mary Weiss (lead singer, The
Shangri-La’s); Bob Cousy (basketball player)
residents of Southeast Queens began to
move out and blacks began to move in. As
can be seen today, this trend stuck.
In the present, any visitor of Cambria
Heights can see a number of Black owned
businesses lining the streets of the portion of Linden Boulevard that runs through
the neighborhood. Among the businesses
include restaurants, many of which are
themed after the culture rich Caribbean
homelands of the owners.
The longstanding Frederick Cabbell Park
located along Francis Lewis Boulevard is a
popular spot. Named after a New York City
police officer who was very involved in making the community a better place, the park
was renovated in 1998 with the help of a $1
million grant from the Councilwoman Juanita Watkins and a $600,000 donation from
Borough President Claire Shulman.
I
Hollis
ideal for those raising a family just like the
neighboring towns of St. Albans and Jamaica. It’s proximity to the transportation hub
that is Jamaica also made for an appealing
pitch as the working class continued working and the kids started school. It also
helped that shopping was made easy with
nearby Jamaica Avenue.
As previously mentioned, Hollis is
known as an incubator for some of the
most talented black stars in recent history.
It is a popular place where stars often give
back. Every year of the last 11 years in fact,
rapper and actor James Todd Smith, better known as LL Cool J, holds a “Jump and
Ball” charity event. During the yearly event,
community youths compete in a basketball
tournament after a five week summer program teaching them the benefits of being
active and staying in shape as well as the
importance of leadership skills.
Along with the
help of former
elected officials,
Smith was able
to give back to
his community
in a meaningful
way.
“When I was
growing
up
around
here,
this is something
I would’ve wanted, and there
was a tournament every now
and then, but it
wasn’t
consisHollis Masonic Temple, which still stands today as a church at Ja- tent,” James told
maica Avenue and 197th Street.
a reporter for
n recent decades, Hollis has been
home to some of the biggest names
in pop culture. From hip-hop legend
LL Cool J, Ja Rule and Run DMC to radio personalities Ed Lover to influential black business and fashion mogul Russell Simmons, Hollis is known around the
world as the incubation neighborhood for
some of the world’s biggest talent. But fame
aside, Hollis has a number of qualities that
make the southeast Queens neighborhood
unique in its own right.
Unlike a number of other Southeast
Queens neighborhoods, Hollis was predominantly black very early on. As a result of the
trend of white residents moving out due to
concerns over middle class blacks moving
into the neighborhood, African-Americans
were able to make the best of the neighborhood all on their own.
A beautiful suburban area, Hollis was
By Trone
DowD
STATS
Population: 29,987
Community Board: 12
Elected Officials: City Council: I Daneek
Miller, Barry Grodenchik; State Assembly:
David Weprin, Alicia Hyndman; State Senate: Leroy Comrie, Tony Avella; U.S. House of
Representatives: Greg Meeks
Precincts: 103rd
Library: Hollis branch, South Hollis branch
Famous Natives: Run DMC (musicians); LL
Cool J (rapper/actor); Russell Simmons (musician/activist); Rev. Al Sharpton (activist); Ja
Rule (rapper); Daymond John (entrepreneur)
the Press of Southeast Queens last August. “I
always remembered how important that was
to the community and how it made us feel.
Unfortunately, in recent years, developments
out of Hollis hasn’t been all good news. In the
last eight months, a battle over a property located between 202nd and 204th streets along
Hollis Avenue has been a point of contention
between the city and the residents of Hollis.
Southeast Queens, inundated with an already
overwhelming amount of supportive housing,
the long vacant property consisting of several
apartment buildings was turned into a shelter
for homeless veterans. After a long battle with
the city, asking for equity amongst all communities in Queens, the city ignored the Community Board 12’s request went through with
the original plan.
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on the 46th Anniversary
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D
id you know that Queens Village was named four times?
This is because of the change
that has come about to this
community.
During colonial times, the Village was
once called Little Plains because of its treeless nature and plain to the west that extended towards Wantagh. In 1824, several
small businesses opened up along Springfield Boulevard. They were all opened by
Thomas Brush, who ended up naming the
community Brushville. About 30 years later,
the residents of the town voted to change
it to Queens, after the county it was in. After major developments and a railroad station several years later, the Long Island Rail
Road included “Village” to the station name
to lessen confusion between the county
and the neighborhood, and the community
went along with it, making the official name
Queens Village.
Queens Village is mostly known for being
the location where young families can own
their own homes. The neighborhood is affordable and relaxing enough for retirement as
well. They’re also a neighborhood with significantly lower property taxes than Long Island,
even though it’s just west of Nassau. The community hasn’t changed much since the 1920s,
when most of the houses were built in modest
rows and they were built to help the working
class who were eager to leave the city.
Queens Village was once home to the
Creedmoor Rifle Range, which was established in 1873, and it hosted a lot of regional,
national and international competitions. This
allowed for room to build the Creedmoor
Range Hotel along with the Creedmoor Club
House and Pavilion – it served as headquarters for the National Rifle Association.
The Queens Village LIRR station in 1924.
Now all of those buildings are gone and
the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center stands
where the rifle range once did. And even
though Creedmoor holds a Queens Village zip code, it stands in Bellerose. Within
Queens Village is an area called Bellaire,
which once attracted shooting enthusiasts
into the neighborhood because of its National Pigeon Shooter Association in 1899.
The community was once filled with the
majority being German, Italian and Irish
families, now this community is a melting pot housing Hispanics, Asians, Indians
Population: 67,866
Community Board: 13
Elected Officials: City Council: Barry Grodenchik, I. Daneek Miller; State Assembly: VACANT; State Senate: Leroy Comrie, Tony Avella;
U.S. House of Representatives: Greg Meeks
Precinct: 105th
Public Library: Queens Village branch
Famous Natives: Nancy Malone (actress,
producer); George Gatley (cartoonist); Chy
Davidson, George Gately, Nancy Malone,
Charles Henry Miller, Tevi Troy, Rockin Chairs,
Paul Newman.
and others, with the majority being African
Americans. It is considered to be one of the
most diverse neighborhoods in the county.
Shopping centers and entertainment can
be found along Jamaica Avenue, Springfield
Boulevard and Hillside Avenue.
Queens Village
By yVETTE
BROWN
PS 34, one of Queens Village’s historic structures on Springfield Boulevard, in the
1930s, left, when the neighborhood was mostly rural, and in 2011.
B
ellerose is a middle class community that borders Nassau
County to the east, Glen Oaks
to the North and Floral Park to
the south. In fact, there is a Bellerose village on both sides of the QueensNassau border. Little Neck Parkway divides
the two counties. It is entirely possible to
park one’s car in Queens and eat at a restaurant in Long Island or visa versa. There are
subtle clues that differentiate the two sides
like the different street lamps and the different style of parking meters.
In terms of housing stock, Bellerose is
composed of one and two-family Capes and
Tudors.
South Asians account for about 40 percent of the neighborhood’s population, a
number that has increased in recent years,
and another large portion, about 44 percent, of the residents are white.
The neighborhood was first developed
by Helen Marsh in 1910. It became more
developed after WWII when many veterans
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Population: 19,165
Community Board: 13
Elected Officials: City Council: Barry
Grodenchik, Paul Vallone; State Assembly:
Ed Braunstein, David Weprin, VACANT; State
Senate: Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representatives: Steve Israel
Precinct: 105th
Public Library: Bellerose branch
Famous Natives: Evan Handler (actor);
Shannon Tavarez (Broadway actress, singer,
health advocate)
land that is now the Queens County Farm
museum, and working the farm was meant
to be curative for patients.
Every year, Bellerose has a great festival
called the Gregorian Festival, which features
eleven nights of live music, rides games,
dancing and food. The festival draws 75,000
visitors and funds scholarships to St. Gregory the Great Church.
File Photo
Bellerose
By Lynn
Edmonds
Photo Courtesy Queens Public Library
A house on Braddock Avenue
in the 1920s. It was torn down
for construction of the Cross
Island Parkway.
and their families moved to the area. The
Cross Island Parkway runs north-south and
bisects the neighborhood in the middle.
The predominant shopping districts are
Hillside Avenue and Jamaica Avenue.
Bellerose is home to two psychiatric hospitals, the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
and the Queens Children’s Psychiatric Center. While Creedmoor still operates, a large
portion of the facility will be evacuated by
2017 after the state deemed it excess land.
It is not yet known what will occupy the vacant land in the future.
Before that, the property was owned by
the National Rifle Association. Residents
didn’t like that because stray bullets would
escape the shooting range and penetrate
the residential neighborhood.
Creedmoor was opened up in the 1912,
and in the next decades mental illness became more and more of an epidemic. By
1933, the hospital had over 50 buildings.
The facility was responsible for introducing
hydrotherapy, insulin therapy, electroshock
and lobotomy as treatments for mental illness. These forms of treatment have mostly
been modified or are rarely used today.
The psychiatric facility also owned the
The plans for the Bellerose Library, which was built in the 1970s and opened in
1978.
Glen Oaks
G
len Oaks, an Eastern Queens
community that borders Nassau county and is situated between Little Neck and Floral
Park, is largely defined by two
housing complexes in the neighborhood,
Glen Oaks Village and North Shore Towers.
Glen Oaks Village is the largest co-op in
New York. It’s composed of 2,904 garden
style apartments in 134 buildings, spread
out over 110 acres. It also contains its own
three-acre park, named after the developer
Jerry Tenney, as well as tennis courts, oudoor racquetball courts, a bocce court, six
playgrounds, a dog part and a community
room for parties and social gatherings.
The apartment complex was built in 1947
to house World War II veterans. It started
out as affordable rentals and then switched
to a co-op in 1981. The current president of
the co-op board is Bob Friedrich, who ran
for a City Council seat to represent the district in a 2015 special election.
Another large development in Glen Oaks
File Photos
By Lynn
Edmonds
is North Shore Towers. The three 30-story
apartment buildings, developed in 1972,
also turned to co-ops in 1985. Both North
Shore Towers and Glen Oaks Village were
built upon the former Glen Oaks Golf Club.
Population: 29, 505
North Shore Towers now includes a golf
Community Board: 13
club.
Elected Officials: City Council: Barry
Both North Shore Towers and Glen
Grodenchik; State Assembly: David Weprin,
Oaks Village are seen as relatively affordEd Braunstein; State Senate: Tony Avella; U.S.
able and good value housing. They are also
House of Representatives: Steve Israel
within District 26, consistently rated the
Precinct: 105th
best school district in the city.
Before it became a golf club in 1923, the
Public Library: Glen Oaks branch
large swath of property that North Shore
Towers and Glen Oaks village were built on
Famous Natives: Robert Mapplethorpe
was part of William K. Vanderbilt’s country
(photographer)
estate. Vanderbilt inherited a fortune from
his family’s railroad business and managed stock, farm vehicles and implements, plantthat enterprise throughout his life. He was ing fields, an orchard, and an herb garden.
The Museum also houses the longest conalso a horse breeder.
The relatively few houses in the area that tinually farmed piece of land in the country.
are not part of other North Shore Towers Hours are Monday through Sunday, 10 to 5
or Glen Oaks Village sometimes have trou- p.m., and entry is free except during special
ble getting attention from politicians or city events.
services. They called their
civic the “Lost CommuGlen oaks is home to north
nity Civic Association” to
shore Towers, which straddles
reflect this phenomenon.
the Queens/nassau border.
The Queens County
Farm museum is one of
the most popular attractions in Glen Oaks. The
museum features events
like a huge Native American powwow every summer, a Corn Maize, Easter
egg hunts, a farmer’s market and other activities
big and small. It contains
a historic farm building, a
greenhouse complex, live-
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Queens County Farm museum is one of the last working
farms in what used to be a
very rural county.
H
J
amaica Estates is a community that
stands out considerably in Southeast
Queens. The attractive neighborhood is one made up of beautiful
one family homes, upscale apart
ment builings and mostly white collared
residents making well above the average income of most New Yorkers.
The town of Jamaica Estates was found in
1908. From the beginning, it was developed
as a place for the affluent in the area, with
large gorgeous and spacious homes and wellmaintained shrubbery. As attractive as it was,
it didn’t take long for the neighborhood to
become what it was built to be. The community that formed at Jamaica Estates were a
very proud and protective one, proactive on
keeping their neighborhood safe and taken
care of. Organizations like the Jamaica Estates
Association and the Committee for the Preservation of Jamaica Estates, found in 1929 and
2004 respectively, have worked to
keep the quality of life residents of
the neighborhood have now grown
used to. Residents are fairly mixed,
made up of white, black, hispanic
and asian residents.
The town of Jamaica Estates
is also home to the prestigious
St. John’s University. Opened in
1956, the neighborhood plays as a
town for college students who live
on campus. St. John’s has a total
of six residential buildings for students who choose to dorm, which
feature “ultramodern residence facilities” that are “cable-ready with
Wi-Fi Internet access and plenty
of space, our residence halls offer
you the total college experience”
that his Italian American family did not immediately fit in there. He said his grandmother would receive lessons from neighborhood ladies on the proper way to take
out the garbage.
“My grandmother cried each time she
recalled how a well-dressed woman had
stopped her on the sidewalk,” Cuomo was
quoted.
The former governor sold the threebedroom colonial on Rio Drive in 2000 for
$400,000.
Mario Cuomo even wrote a children’s
book about a 40-foot tree in his yard there,
called “The Blue Spruce.” The spruce tree
in the yard became a metaphor for perseverance for Cuomo.
In an Oct 22, 1982 journal entry, Cuomo
wrote that in a tough moment in his race
for Governor, he held a business card of
his father’s, and remembered how the man
had taught him never to give up.
“Less than a week after we moved in
there was a terrible storm. We came home
from the store that night to find the great
blue spruce pulled almost totally out of the
ground and flung forward, its might nose
bent in the asphalt street […]with the rain
Holliswood Gardens, an apartment complex on the edge of Holliswood.
according to the school’s website.
In the last two decades, St. John’s has
grown in popularity, going from an average
of 7,500 applicants during the new school
year in 1998 to 20,500 new applicants in
2005. In 2003, a shopping center opened
not too far from the campus, providing students and residents of the neighborhood
an alternative to the often times crowded
Jamaica Avenue.
Jamaica Estates is also home to a number
of other educational buildings, including
the United Nations International School,
Mary Louise Academy and the Immaculate
Conception School.
In addition to the two Catholic schools,
Jamaica Estates is home to a large Jewish
population. In fact, the neighborhood was
the home to the Conservative Synagogue
of Jamaica Estates before merging with the
Israel Center of Conservative Judaism in
STATS
Population: 5,215
Community Boards: 8
Elected Officials: City Council: Barry Grodenchik; State Assembly: David Weprin, Nily
Rozic; State Senate: Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie:
U.S. House of Representatives: Greg Meeks.
Precinct: 107th
Public Library: None
Famous Natives: Andrew Cuomo (Governor
of New York); Chris Cuomo (journalist)
now falling harder than ever, Poppa dug
away at the place where the roots were,
making a muddy hole wider and wider as
the tree sunk lower and lower towards security. Then we shoveled mud over the
roots and moved boulders to the base of
the three to keep it in place. Poppa drove
stakes into the ground, tied rope from the
trunk to the stakes and maybe two hours
later, soaked, we looked at the spruce, the
crippled spruce, made straight by ropes.
And said, did Poppa, ‘Don’t’ worry he’s a
gonna grow again.’”
“I looked at the card and I wanted to cry. If
you were to drive by the house today in Holliswood you would see that great, straight,
blue spruce may now sixty feet tall, pointing
straight up to the heavens, pretending that
is never had its nose in the asphalt.”
“I put poppa’s card back in the drawer,
closed it with a vengeance. I couldn’t wait
to get back into the campaign.”
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Population: 5,746
Community Board: 8
Elected Officials: City Council: Rory Lancman; State Assembly: David Weprin; Senate:
State: Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie; U.S. House of
Representatives: Greg Meeks
Police Department: 107
Public Library: Hillcrest branch
Famous Natives: Donald Trump (businessman and presidential candidate); Starr Danias
(ballet dancer)
2004. Also, young orthodox Jewish group,
Young Israel of Jamaica Estates, is also based
out of the neighborhood.
Photo courtesy Queens Library/File Photo
Jamaica EstatEs
By TRONE
DOWD
olliswood is one of the leafiest, greenest and most expensive enclaves in Queens.
With winding roads, beautiful tall trees and landscaped
lawns, it’s a quiet place with fewer cars and
more plants than almost anywhere else in
the borough.
Even before the neighborhood was developed in the late 1800s, it featured a pleasing landscape of trees and hills, which gave
Frederick Dunton the idea to develop it.
Holliswood is a box-shaped neighborhood bordered by the Grand Central Parkway, Francis Lewis Boulevard, Hillside Avenue and 188th Street. Within that box,
there is not a single straight block, only
winding roads. Streets like Palermo and Salerno Street and Pompeii Avenue are named
after towns in Italy and Spain.
The neighborhood is a mix of whites and
African Americans as well as some Asians
and Hispanics.
The Holliswood Civic Association is very
active in the area. Currently, the civic is
working to downscale a development on
the site of the former Holliswood Hospital.
The Holliswood Hospital was a small hospital that served people with substance abuse
problems. Now the civic is afraid that the
proposed development will ruin the character of the small neighborhood irretrievably.
One of Holliswood’s most notable residents was the Cuomo family. Former Governor Mario Cuomo, who is also the father
of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was born in South
Jamaica, but his parents moved the family
to Holliswood in 1949.
Andrew Cuomo told the New York Times
File Photo
Holliswood
By LyNN
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The Jamaica Estates gatehouse in the 1930s, left, and now.
T
File Photo
DougLastoN
home the Alley, then Alley Pond. In 1683
when Queens became a county, Hicks’
property reached from Alley Creek west to
today’s Bell Boulevard in Bayside, and became part of what they called Flushing.
In the 1930s, the Cross Island Parkway
and Long Island Expressway were built and
the rest of Hick’s homestead was demolished to make way.
During the Revolutionary War, the farmers living in the area remained loyal to England, but kept quiet about it.
Douglaston Hill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000
and named a New York City landmark in
2004. It became a highly sought after suburb after the steam railroad was introduced
in the early 1800s.
Douglaston Hill
was developed in
1854 and always
provided a homestead for city professional
looking
for greener neighborhoods.
Its architecture features
Colonial
Revival,
Queen Anne, and
Tudor Revival styles
are properties that
are larger than most
city suburbs.
The area has
been known as a
mostly white upper
class neighborhood,
The Douglaston Windmill is a neighborhood icon.
but it was once also
ucked away on the north shore
of Queens with priceless views
of Little Neck Bay, Douglaston
is a haven for suburbanites that
toil away in Manhattan and are
able to lavish in the affluent area that is surrounded by crisp air provided by Alley Pond
Park.
Douglaston is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Queens. It was settled by
Thomas Hicks who led a tiny army against
the Native-American Matinecoc fishing village. The location is today Marathon Parkway and Northern Boulevard in the spot
where local library stands.
Hicks built a homestead on a peninsula called Little Madnan’s and named their
By JON
CRONIN
L
ittle Neck is a tree-lined, suburban neighborhood in Northeastern Queen that borders right up
against the Nassau county line.
Its housing stock consists of colonials, high ranches, Tudors, capes and arts
and craft style homes. Its an upper-middle
class neighborhood, inhabited mostly by
Italian, German, Irish, Jewish, African American, Korean and Chinese families.
Like neighboring Douglaston, Little Neck
was inhabited by Matinecoc Indians when
the English settlers came in the 1600s and
displaced or killed most of them.
A decisive battle at the intersection of the
current Marathon Parkway and Northern
Boulevard, called the Battle of Madnam’s
Neck, marked the moment when English
gained the competitive advantage. Thomas
Hicks was the influential Englishman who
led the battle efforts.
In October, that portion of Marathon
Parkway was co-named Matinecock Way in
honor of the tribal nation that had originally
settled that land. Current tribal leaders attended the ceremony.
The English settlers used the area for
Population: 17,823
Community Board: 11
Elected Officials: City Council: Paul Vallone;
State Assembly: Ed Braustein; Nily Rozic; State
Senate: Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representatives: Steve Israel
Precinct: 111th
Fire Department: Ladder 146
Public Library: Douglaston/Little Neck
branch
Famous Natives: Madeline Kahn (actress),
John McEnroe (tennis player), Mary Carillo
(tennis player, broadcaster), James Conlon
(conductor)
home to the first African-American oystermen who lived on Orient Avenue, now
243rd Street, but they were forced to leave
once the bay became too polluted to harvest
oysters at the turn of the 20th century.
A wealthy businessman named Wyant
Van Zandt built the Zion Episcopal Church
in 1830 at 243-01 Northern Boulevard. Its
cemetery contains the remains of Matinecoc
Native-Americans and Van Zandt himself.
After passing, Van Zandt’s property was
bought by George Douglas who also bought
another 240 acres nearby. He also bought
the property at 233 Arleigh Road which is
home to the oldest tree on Long Island and
New York City, a 600 year old white oak.
STATS
Population: 25,247
Community Board: 11
State Assembly: Ed Braunstein; State Senate:
Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representatives:
Steve Israel
Precinct: 111th
Public Library: North Hills branch
Famous Natives: Hedda Hopper (columnist),
George Tenet (former CIA director), Alan
Kalter (announcer for The Late Show)
is about a 25 minute ride into Manhattan.
In a combined effort with Douglaston, the
neighborhood is known for having the biggest Memorial Day parades in the country.
File Photo
LittLe Neck
By LyNN
EDmONDs
File Photo
Revelers at the Douglaston/Little Neck Memorial Day
Parade, called the largest in the country, in 2005.
growing, and orchards and farms there supplied food to people in the nearby city.
With a small inlet from Little Neck Bay
snaking into the neighborhood, Little
Neck was once the perfect place to fish
for Oysters. Called Udall’s Cove, the tidal
salt marsh attracted oystermen from in the
18th and 19th century. Many of oystermen
were free Blacks. According to one source,
16 out of 27 registered oysterman in New
York City in 1810 were African Americans.
One of them, Thomas Downing, went on to
create his own oyster empire.
The clams in the area were called “Little
Necks” and were known for being small and
hard. They were used in top restaurants
not just in Manhattan but in Paris, London,
Geneva and Rome. Fisherman also caught
Blue Fish and Sea Bass.
The trade in oysters and clams was so
successful that the train was extended to
stop right by the edge of the Cove, at Little
Neck Parkway and 39th Road.
The station is still there, but the oyster
industry had to
stop in 1909 when
the
government
condemned
the
shellfish as toxic
because of pollutants in the water.
The Long Island
Rail Road has a
stop in Little Neck
on the Port Washington Branch. It is
the last stop that is
within the boundaries of New York
City. From the Little
Neck stop, located
at 39th Road and
Glenwood Street, it
A Little
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Neck street scene in the 1980s
Planting Fields Foundation opens its new exhibition
Great Ocean Liners:1900-1940
at Coe Hall on Saturday April 2nd, 2016
Great Ocean Liners: 1900-1940
On view April 2nd – October 2nd, 2016
Open daily 11:30am – 3:30pm
at Coe Hall, Planting Fields
$5 Admission fee for Coe Hall I $8 Parking Fee
William R. Coe of Planting Fields, made his career
in the marine insurance business. He was chairman
of the board of one of the largest insurance brokerage
firms in the world, Johnson and Higgins. The firm
brokered the hull insurance on the Titanic which sank
in 1912 – the claim was settled in only 30 days. The
exhibition examines the history of the White Star Line,
owners of the Titanic and explores the competition
between the White Star and Cunard lines for profit and
speed on their trans-Atlantic crossings. In the
exhibition three vessels from each line will be
prominently featured; for the White Star it will be
Titanic, Olympic and Britannic, and for the Cunard
Line, Aquitania, Lusitania and Mauretania. Posters,
archival documents and ship models are included in
the show.
EVENTS & PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Opening Night & Preview Party
Great Ocean Liners: 1900-1940
Friday, April 1st I Coe Hall
5:30pm-7:30pm
Celebrate the opening of our new
exhibition! Luxury liners were much more
than a means of transportation. They
were floating palaces; the ultimate icons
of glamor, opulence, and romance. In the
early 1900s passengers were
transported across the oceans in a
magnificence and style unequalled to
prior. Tickets: $20 Non-Members I
Members Free, (includes wine and
cheese) Information: Michelle Benes
516-922-8682 or email
[email protected]
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
Broadway Night at Coe Hall, 7:00PM
Members $40 I Non-Members $50
Reservations are required—reserve your
seats early as space is limited!
Coe Hall will come alive with the sounds
of Broadway, as sung by some of the
greatest starts from Broadway’s biggest
shows. Performers will be accompanied
by our 1913 Steinway grand piano
played by pianist Jack Kohl, who has
performed as Musical Director for over
eleven years in the New York theater
area, including countless concert
appearances with Broadway actors. Join
us after the show for a chance to meet
the performers at a wine and cheese
reception in the Dining Room of Coe
Hall. Enjoy a wonderful evening of live
theater and celebrate our new exhibition!
Reservations: Jennifer Lavella (516)
922-8678, [email protected]
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
Children’s Exhibition Program
at Coe Hall
12PM I $5 admission fee for Coe Hall
members and children under 12
are free ($8 parking fee)
Come and learn the core essentials of
model ship building. Build your very
own wooden model Titanic and take
home to decorate. This is the perfect
hands-on event for families, and to visit
the new exhibition Great Ocean Liners
1900-1940! All supplies are provided.
Parent supervision and reservations
required.
Call: Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or
email [email protected]. This
event is limited to 10 children per
session.
TWO SUNDAYS IN APRIL
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 &
Sunday, April 17th, 2016
The Lap of Luxury
The Emergence of the
Cruise Ship Industry:
the Pioneers, Private
Lives, Drama, Comedy,
and the Grandeur
of Today and of Days Gone By
2:00pm – 3:00pm at Coe Hall
$5 admission fee, members and
children under 12 are free
Written and Directed by David Houston
A READING IN THE STYLE OF RADIO
DRAMA
Actors Diana Heinlein and David Houston
Information: Jennifer Lavella (516) 9228678 or [email protected]
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F
resh Meadows, originally known
as Black Stump during colonial
times, became what it is today in
a post World War II America. It
was in 1949 that the New York
Life Insurance Company, decided to build
a for-its-time modern take on housing complexes. This apartment complex built in the
neighborhood was called none other than
Fresh Meadows.
The 140 building complex was built as
a way to house veterans coming back from
the war. At the time, it was one of the largest complexes in the entire city, consisting
of two and three story garden apartments,
a 20 story high rise and two 13-story buildings. The complex is also home to the Fresh
Meadows Shopping Center. While it quickly
became predominantly white at the time,
over the years and into the modern era,
other ethnicities began to move in including
African-American, Latino, Indian and residents of Asian descent. The 150 acre plot of
land was also home to the Fresh Meadows
Country club which opened in 1923 and
even hosted the U.S. Open in 1932.
For those who live outside of the large
complex, Fresh Meadows is known for being a fairly quiet neighborhood, a trait it
has held for over a century. In fact, one of
the more well known staples of the neighborhood since 1895 was the Klein Farm
located at 194-15 73rd Avenue. The Klein
family lived in a 2-acre wide brick house on
the property, and their farm spanned some
200 acres. The family would often harvest
their freshly grown produce and sell them
to residents from all over the borough.
Over the years however, the property became smaller. The Kleins would sell parcels
of their large property to developers and and
builders. It wasn’t until 2003 that the farm,
then the last surviving commercial farm in
New York City, was shut down for good.
Although the Klein Farm is no longer
around today, it is survived in a sense
through the Western part of Cunningham
Park. This well kept, refreshingly green part
of the neighborhood is a great representation of what Fresh Meadows is known for:
Tranquility, simplicity and being homey
for these neighborhoods residents and frequent visitors.
Of all the rich history the neighborhood has, one of the standout events is none other than the
Blizzard of 1969. Fresh Meadows
was home to one of the worst city
snow storm aftermaths recorded
to date.
The storm was originally expected to be a light powder, but
quickly escalated. On Feb. 9, New
York City received a record 20
inches of snow overnight, killing
The Fresh Meadows Shopping Center is a regional dozens of people, 21 of which
where from Queens, and virtually
hub of commerce.
F
or most people who aren’t from
Queens, Kew Gardens Hills is just
another extension of Flushing.
In fact, maybe people who live
there identify their community as
“Flushing.”
But Kew Gardens Hills is definitely different from what we know of Flushing,. It
is much less densely population, is far less
congested and an overall more suburban
feel.
Defined by the two-story garden apartment developments that make up the majority of the neighborhood’s housing stock,
Kew Gardens Hills is a mostly Jewish community, home a large population of Orthodox Jewish - according to some, the largest in Queens. The neighborhood’s Jewish
majority makes it home to many important
synagogues and Jewish centers. Mount
Hebron Cemetery on the neighborhood’s
northwest corner is one of the biggest Jewish cemeteries in Queens, and is the final
resting place for many popular early 20th
Century Yiddish entertainers. Oscar-winning singer and actress Barbra Streisand
owns a plot in the cemetery.
True to it’s name, the neighborhood sits
on high ground, just northeast of its namesake neighborhood. In colonial times, part
of the neighborhood belonged to New York
Founding Father Francis Lewis - the land
that makes up the northern part of Kew
Gardens Hills was part of his estate.
Over time, the community became a
summer resort, with land on former estates being sold off and becoming country
clubs. One such country club, Arrowbrook,
was where Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia would
spend his summers.
STATS
Population: 115,402
Community Board: 8
Elected Officials: City Council: Rory Lancman; State Assembly: Nily Rozic, David Weprin; State Senate: Toby Stavisky, Tony Avella:
U.S. House of Representatives: Grace Meng
Precincts: 107th and 111th
Public Library: Fresh Meadows branch
Famous Native: Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist)
bringing the borough to its knees. Queens
itself was seemingly isolated from the rest of
the city, as agencies and residents worked to
dig out the streets.
For Mayor John Lindsay, the storm became a stain on his legacy. Fresh Meadows,
received some of the worst the storm had
to offer. When touring the city the day after
the storm, Lindsay’s limousine could barely
make it around the borough. He moved to
a four wheel drive truck and still had issues
getting around. When getting to Fresh Meadows, it is said that the Mayor was met with
boos. It is cited in Vincent J. Cannato’s book,
“The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and
His Struggle to Save New York,” one woman
yelled to the Mayor, “Get out you bum!”
The blizzard of 1969 proved that a political legacy can be affected heavily by the
way an elected official reacts to natural occurrences like blizzards. Residents and
city workers alike turned their back on the
Mayor, and Fresh Meadows was one of the
standout neighborhoods to show their disapproval.
STATS
Population: 38,216
Community Board: 8
Elected Officials: City Council: Rory Lancman; State Assembly: Michael Simanowitz,
Nily Rozic; State Senate: Toby Ann Stavisky,
Joe Addabbo Jr.; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace Meng
Precinct: 107th
Public Library: Kew Gardens Hills branch
Famous Natives: Fran Drescher (actress);
Ellen Barkin (actress); Michael Landon (actor): Paul Simon (musician): Art Garfunkel
(musician)
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The Queens County Savings Bank branch
on Main Street with its cupola modeled
after Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.
On the south end of the neighborhood
are were some of the oldest - and largest
- homes. Many of the mansions that face
Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona
Park can be seen from cars on the Van
Wyck Expressway. Main Street, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip, is well
known for its kosher food stores and clothing shops, as well as the Main Street Cinema and the Queens County Savings Bank
building, with its cupola that can be seen
rising above the tree line from adjacent
neighborhoods.
Today Kew Gardens Hills plays host to
Queens College, the borough’s signature
CUNY campus, John Bowne High School
and CUNY’s Law School. It’s also where you
can get lox ice cream, from world-famous
Max & Minas, which is so well known for its
eccentric ice cream flavors that it’s actually
the subject of a question in Trivial Pursuit.
An interesting fact is that Kew Gardens
Hills is one of the few neighborhoods to
have had subway service, and those lost it.
In 1939, a spur of the NYC subway was built
connecting the Queens Boulevard Line to
the World’s Fair Grounds, where a station
was constructed near the present-day interchange of the Horace Harding and Van
Wyck expressway. The line was demolished
when the Van Wyck was constructed in the
1950s.
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most-visited in the borough.
Flushing draws many visitors for grocery shopping and eating. The area’s many
Asian supermarkets, like the one found in
the New World Mall, have Asian vegetables
as well as excellent deals on other produce.
Restaurant-wise, diners can find cheaper
and tastier Chinese and Korean food than
they can find elsewhere in the borough.
In that, visitors have an opportunity to
try some classic treats for the first time:
bubble tea, flaky pastries with red bean
paste inside, sweet shredded pork sandwiches and food courts that offer no-frills
but exceptionally well-cooked meals.
The food courts serve the older bachFlushing Town Hall,
elors, the busy workers, and all the people
a cultural hub of the
who don’t have the time or the ability too
neighborhood.
cook but may not have the money to spend
on restaurant fare and tips.
Instead, one can build
one’s own meal, getting
four main courses, steaming hot white rice and a
clear-broth soup for only
$4.50. Some of the choices
are fried chicken or pork
glazed with sweet and
sour sauce, and steamed
greens and bok choi that
are perfectly salted and
deftly cooked to bring out
the full force of their natural flavor. Diners eat out of
a Styrofoam tray, enjoying
a silent solidarity with the
strangers at their table as
they pass one another the
An old “redbird” 7 train pulls into Flushing, Main Street
vinegar or the soy sauce,
in the 1990’s
or make room for a mothowntown Flushing is one of er with a stroller to squeeze between the
the most vibrant and busy tightly packed chairs. The best part is that
parts of Queens, and the the portions are generous enough to make
fourth largest business district a second meal, in many cases.
Flushing is continuing to transform with
in New York City.
Thirty years ago, Borough President Claire the western edge, adjacent to Flushing
Shulman has said, Main Street in Flushing Creek, slated for major redevelopment. Parts
didn’t have a single business except for a of the project include rezoning to allow for
stationary shop. But then immigrants from 1,000s of units of residential housing as well
Taiwan came to settle in the area. They were as opening up the waterfront to the public
followed by others from mainland China and taking the industrial edge off the area.
One landmark in downtown Flushing
and Korea. Restaurants and small businesses
began popping up. So did malls and luxury that is devoted to celebrating the neighhousing. Now Flushing holds New York’s borhood’s diversity is St. George’s Episcosecond largest Chinatown, behind Sunset pal Church. The church, founded in 1702,
Park in Brooklyn but in front of Manhat- holds services in English, Chinese and
tan. Most Chinese people in Flushing speak Spanish.
Flushing Town Hall is also home to mulMandarin, unlike in Manhattan’s Chinatown
ticultural arts performances and exhibition
where most speak Cantonese.
To those who like bustle, Downtown spaces, as well as being a community gathFlushing can be a rush. To those who ering place on some occasions. The historic
don’t, it can be a sensory overload. The building was built in 1862 and leaders of the
intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt village of Vlissingen, as Flushing was once
Avenue is the biggest pedestrian intersec- called, used to govern from that building.
The building is a relic of Flushing’s rich
tion in New York City after Herald Square.
The Queens Library Flushing branch is the history. The area was first settled by the
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EDMONDS
Population: 219, 372
Elected Officials: City Council: Peter Koo,
Rory Lancman, Paul Vallone; State Assembly:
Ron Kim, Michael Simanowitz, Nily Rozic, Ed
Braunstein; State Senate: Toby Stavisky, Tony
Avella; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace
Meng
Precinct: 109th
Ladder 129
Public Libraries: Flushing branch; MitchellLinden branch; Queensboro Hills branch;
McGoldrick branch
Famous Natives: Judd Apatow (director,
screenwriter); Marvin Hamlisch (musician);
Jon Favreau (actor); Nancy Reagan (First
Lady); Margaret Heckler (politician); Gary
Ackerman (politican, founder of the Queens
Tribune)
Dutch in 1645, and then by English colonists. It is considered the birthplace of religious freedom because The Flushing remonstrance, signed in 1657, signaled the right
for Quakers, and others who were barred
from practicing their religion freely, to do so
without fear of punishment.
The John Bowne House and the Old
Quaker Meeting House are other landmarks
that speak to this history. Additionally, Old
Flushing Burial Ground is the resting place
where many African Americans were buried
in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A more commercialized landmark in the
downtown area is Sky View Parc a large, luxurious mall with Target, B.J.s, Home Depot
and other large retailers, and Queens Crossing, a smaller mall in the center of downtown and the New World Mall, “New York’s
largest Asian Indoor Mall,” which is known
for its food court.
Flushing borders the eastern part of
Flushing Meadows Corona Park and located
within Flushing is the beautiful Queens Botanical Garden. Like New York City, every
“neighborhood” within the garden is different: there’s a meadow, a rose garden, an
herb garden, an American garden and a wedding garden.
Aside from the densely populated downtown area, Flushing also technically encompasses several more suburban neighborhoods: Linden Hill, Broadway-Flushing,
Murray Hill, Auburndale, Kissena Park,
Queensboro Hill, Pomonok, Flushing
Heights and Hillcrest.
Flushing is accessible by the 7 train and
the LIRR.
AFTER
BEFORE
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A section of
Roosevelt Avenue
near Main Street
in the 1970’s, left
and today.
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Flushing
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A
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Station Road in Auburndale in 1950.
Population: 36,596
Elected Officials: City Council: Peter Koo,
Paul Vallone; State Assembly: Ed Braunstein,
Ron Kim; State Senate: Tony Avella, Toby
Stavisky; U.S. House of Representatives: Grace
Meng
Engine 312, Ladder 117
Public Libraries: Auburndale branch, East
Flushing branch
Famous Natives: Keenan Wynn (actor)
downzoned recently to preserve the areas
spaciousness and green quality.
The neighborhood
is home to mostly
white, Korean and
Chinese Americans.
The Auburndale
Improvement Association, the oldest Civic
Association in New
York City, plays an active role in the neighborhood, as does the
Station Road Civic Association.
St. Kevin’s Roman
Catholic
Church,
a large, beautiful
church is a landmark
and a meeting place
in the neighborhood. It also holds Flushing Cemetery, where some famous celebrities are ina school, St. Kevin terred, including Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscarwinning actress Jo Van Fleet.
Catholic Academy.
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uburndale is a suburban subsection of Flushing. It is bounded by 162nd street to the west,
32nd street to the north, Francis
Lewis Blvd to the east and 48th
Avenue and Pidgeon Meadow Road to the
South. Northern Boulevard runs through
the middle, as does the Long Island Rail
Road. In the southwestern corner is Flushing Cemetery, where the remains of Native
Americans as well as African Americans were
interred in the 1800s.
Activists like Mandingo Tshaka, a Bayside
resident, fought long and hard to preserve
the dignity of the individuals interred there.
They were frustrated when the notoriously
racist Robert Moses paved over the burial
ground to place a playground.
In the 1990s, Tshaka protested when
they renovated the playground and dug up
the remains in the process. Currently, the
burial ground is a park and it is maintained
by volunteers as well as the parks department. The activists are fighting to have a
memorial installed on the site to tell the
story of the people who were interred
there.
Auburndale is also near to Kissena Park,
immediately to the southwest.
Housing stock in the neighborhood consists predominately of Tudors and one and
two family homes. The neighborhood was
named after Auburndale, Massachusetts,
where L.H. Green, who developed the
neighborhood, was from. He began developing it in 1901.
Urban planner Paul Graziano helped
downzone the area to prevent additional
apartment complexes, higher density multifamily houses and McMansions.
The southern part of Auburndale was
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Population: 44,100
Elected Officials: City Council: Paul Vallone,
Barry Grodenchik; State Assembly: Ed Braunstein, Nily Rozic; State Senate: Tony Avella,
Toby Stavisky; U.S. House of Representatives:
Grace Meng, Stave Israel
Fire Department: Engine 326, Engine 306
Public Libraries: Bay Terrace branch, Bayside branch, Windsor Park branch
Famous Natives: Rosie O’Donnell (actress,
talk show host); Richard Dreyfuss (actor);
Jordan Belfort (Wall Street broker); Patti Ann
Browne (journalist)
all saints Episcopal Church in 1927,
above, and today, left.
Bay Terrace shopping
Center shortly after
it’s opening in the
early 1990s.
northern Boulevard at Bell Boulevard
in 1933 after a hurricane flooded the
neighborhood. The Bayside national
Bank at 214-01 northern Blvd. is shown.
It is now a Capital one branch.
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F
ar from the noise, crowds, and
congestion of some Queens neighborhoods is a picture of a quiet
quintessential suburbia with pretty houses and white picket fences.
Bayside, an upper-middle class neighborhood located in the northeast Queens has
the feel of Long Island but is still closer to
the city. It’s been ranked as one of the most
expensive housing markets in the country.
English settlers made their way into Bayside in the late 17th century and displaced
the native Mackintock Indians who were the
original inhabitants of the area in the process.
Located on Cross Island Parkway, the Bayside Marina welcomes many boaters, kayakers, and fishers in the summertime. Waterfront restaurants, such as the Italian Due
Ponti are a favorite among locals.
Bayside is also known for its beautiful
parks such as Bayside fields and the John
Golden and Crocheron Parks located next to
each other between 32nd Avenue and Corbett Road. Hiking trails, playgrounds, fields
to engage in sports, and picnic grounds attract many visitors.
John Golden was a Broadway producer
and one of the founders of the American
Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. After he and his wife moved to a 20-acre
estate in 1920, they opened the grounds to
the community. Many Little League baseball
games were held on the grounds and when
Golden died in 1955, he left his estate to the
city so it could be a recreational area for the
public to enjoy.
corporations.
The significance behind Fort Totten is
that it is a Civil War Fortress surrounded by
historic architecture and buildings.
Actors Burt Young and Christopher Walken, Jazz Musician Clark Terry, Heavyweight
Boxing Champion “Gentle Jim” Corbett, and
sports broadcaster Howie Rose who covers
the New York Mets on local radio are some
notable people who have lived in Bayside.
Bayside
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Khan
Crocheron Park is named after the Crocheron Hotel, which is said to be a place
frequented by Boss Tweed. Tweed was a
city politician from 1866 to 1871 and it’s
believed that Tweed may have hid on the
grounds of the hotel after escaping from
prison in 1875 and before fleeing to Cuba.
In 1907, twenty years after the hotel was
destroyed in a fire, the city purchased the
property and later converted it into a park.
On the opposite end of Bayside in Bay
Terrace is the historic Fort Totten. Many
local community groups including the Bay
Terrace Community Alliance, Friend of Fort
Totten Parks, the Fort Totten Conservancy,
the Bay Terrace Community Organization,
and the Bayside Historical Society have
fought valiantly over the years to pressure
the city to preserve the 49.5-acre park and
not let it fall into the hands of developing
Fort Totten, where Bayside meets the long Island City, was constructed to protect
the city from attacks from the east.
liam Ziegler, had originally
bought163 acres of Malba
but did not finish developing it. Like much of Whitestone, Malba features excelPopulation: 2,600
lent views of the waterfront
Community Board: 9
and particularly the BronxElected Officials: City Council: Paul Vallone;
Whitestone bridge.
State Assembly: Michael Simanowitz; State
The developers enviSenate: Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representasioned the area to be part
tives: Steve Israel, Joe Crowley
of Long Island’s Gold Coast,
and they built a private
Public Libraries: None
beach, a dock for yachts, a
Famous Native: William Shea (developer,
gold club and a polo club in
the area in the 1920s. Before
namesake of Shea Stadium)
the bridges, cars, airports,
increased industry and population, the area was a resort to feature Mediterranean designs, the New
spot that affluent New York- York Times writes.
The Bronx-Whitestone
Malba has a neighborhood association,
ers flocked to for swimming
Bridge dominates the
the
Malba Association, which maintains puband
waters
ports.
malba skyline
Now the area is home to lic spaces including the beachfront.
Malba also now has a Yacht club and mabusiness professionals yearalba is a little-known chunk round, and housed at one point William rina located on Malba drive.
of Whitestone, separated Shea, a lawyer and the nameoff from the rest of it by the sake of Shea Stadium, and Mets
Whitestone expressway. The player Roberto Alomar.
400-odd homes there are
An article in the New York
some of the most expensive in the borough. Times in 2011 cited the uniqueIt is a quiet neighborhood, with no retail ar- ness of Malba properties beeas or public transportation, and plenty of cause of the large lot sizes.
lush, large trees and winding, sedate streets.
At the time, the article also
At the same time, it’s accessible to Manhat- said it was a trend for buyers to
tan by car.
snatch up a $2.8 million or so
Malba gets its name from the first letters home and the knock it down to
of the last names of the five men who de- build a mansion in its place.
veloped the area: Maycock, Alling, Lewis,
Many of the homes in the
Bishop and Avis. The men were connected neighborhood, mostly ranches,
with the Royal Baking Powder Company cape cods and colonials, were
and came from New Haven, Conn. Another built in the first half of the 20th The shoreline of malba in the 1920s, before it was
fellow in the baking powder business, Wil- century. The newer houses tend developed.
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O
ne hundred and some-odd
years ago, before Flushing
Bay and Powell’s Cove suffered from ailments like combined sewer overflows, College Point was a summer resort area that
offered sporting facilities and bathing areas.
Alongside that, it was also something of
an industry town, with hundreds of workers employed at Conrad Poppenhusen’s
Enterprise Rubber Works. The town, complete with its own school, water and sewage
system, as well as a train, was more or less
built and designed around the factory, and
the majority of residents were workers and
their families. Many of them were of German
descent. That factory provided supplies for
the union army during the civil war before it
closed in 1877.
Previously, College Point had a small
population. It got its name from a small college, St. Paul’s, which closed less than 10
years after it opened.
Some of the historical buildings from the
Poppenhusen years are historical landmarks
today, like the Poppenhusen Institute, at
114-04 14th Road, which held the first free
kindergarten in the country, as well as a
jail, a firehouse and a village hall, at various
times. Residents worked hard to preserve
the building from being knocked down, and
it not serves as a community center. Another important building is the Poppenhusen
branch of the Queens Library, built in 1904
with money from the steel-industry giant
Andrew Carnegie.
Today, College Point is a working middle
class neighborhood. Its main boulevard,
College Point Boulevard, is busy with small
businesses, especially between 14th and
20th Avenues. Other parts are residential,
STATS
Population: 20,970
Community Board: 9
Senate: Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Public Library: Poppenhusen branch
Famous Natives: Dennis Gallagher (actor);
Steve Karsay (baseball player)
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By Lynn
Edmonds
The Poppenhusen Institute, namesake
of the neighborhood.
industrial or big box stores.
The new, state-of-the-art Police Academy
housed in the area had its ribbon cutting
ceremony on Dec. 15, 2015. Nearby is the
Department of Motor Vehicles and a large
movie theaters, alongside with Target and
other big box stores along 20th Avenue.
The College Point Corporate Park is another trademark area that was once home to
Flushing Airport, a small airport that closed
in 1980. The corporate park also houses
Crystal Windows and Door Systems, one
of the biggest manufacturers in Queens, as
well as the Pepsi Cola bottling company.
Flushing Airport, located in College
Point, in the 1930s The airfield closed in
1984 and the hangers were demolished
in 2009.
The neighborhood does have some great
Parks including Frank Golden Park, the Poppenhusen Playground and Powerll’s Cove
Park.
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice of Formation of 19311 Realty LLC, Art. of Org.
filed with Sec’y of State
(SSNY) on 1/11/16. Office
location: Queens County.
SSNY designated as agent
of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to Howard Smolen,
Esq., 360 Great Neck Rd.,
Great Neck, NY 11021, the
Reg. Agt. upon whom proc.
may be served. Purpose: any
lawful activities.
________________________
Seasam Painting LLC Arts of
Org filed with Secy. of State
of NY (SSNY) on 1/12/16.
Office in Queens Co. SSNY
desig. agent of LLC upon
whom process against it
may be served & shall mail
process to 8906 31st Ave,
East Elmhurst, NY 11369. Registered Agent: Jeffrey Mejia,
45-60 158th St, Flushing, NY
11358. Purpose: General.
________________________
Notice of formation of HOOKAH KI RAAT LLC. Articles of
Org. filed with the Secretary
of State of New York (SSNY)
on 11/05/2015. Office located in Queens County.
SSNY has been designated
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail copy of any process
served against the LLC to: THE
LLC, Shahnaz I. Khan, 8422
106th Ave., Ozone Park, NY
11417. Purpose: Any lawful
activity or purpose.
________________________
BRAVO MILITARY SALES
LLC Articles of Org. filed
NY Sec. of State (SSNY)
2/5/2016. Office in Queens
Co. SSNY desig. agent of
LLC upon whom process
may be served. SSNY shall
mail copy of process to 20-28
119th St., College Point, NY
purpose.
________________________
Kerns Group LLC, a domestic
LLC, filed with the SSNY
on 2/5/16. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom
process against the LLC may
be served. SSNY shall mail
process to Ngok Wan Pau,
218-21 Grand Central Pkwy.,
Hollis Hills, NY 11427. General purpose.
________________________
TUTRIX LLC. Art. of Org.
filed with the SSNY on
02/02/16. Office: Queens
County. SSNY designated as
agent of the LLC upon whom
process against it may be
served. SSNY shall mail copy
of process to the LLC, 65-17
Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY
purpose.
________________________
Notice of formation of Out
of the Cupboard Productions, LLC. Arts of Org filed
with Secy of State of NY on
3/3/2015 (SSNY). Office
SSNY has been designated as
served. The address to which
the SSNY shall mail a copy of
any process against the LLC
to: Law Office of Nicholas
H. Rohlfing, 1440 Broadway,
23rd Floor, New York, NY
10018. Purpose of LLC: Any
lawful purpose.
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME
CO U R T CO U N T Y O F
QUEENS MorEquity, Inc.,
Plaintiff AGAINST Lorna
A. Gilbert a/k/a Lorna Gilbert; William A. Gilbert, III
a/k/a William A. Gilbert
a/k/a William Gilbert; et al.,
Defendant(s) Pursuant to
a Judgment of Foreclosure
and Sale duly dated October
3, 2013 I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County
Courthouse, Courtroom
#25, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on
April 8, 2016 at 10:00AM,
premises known as 115-45
198th Street, Saint Albans, NY
11412. All that certain plot
piece or parcel of land, with
the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying
and being in the Borough and
County of Queens, City and
State of NY, Block 11039 Lot
21. Approximate amount of
judgment $222,511.36 plus
interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to
provisions of filed Judgment
Index# 21469/2012. Wyatt
N. Gibbons, Esq., Referee
Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff
175 Mile Crossing Boulevard
Rochester, New York 14624
(877) 759-1835 Dated: February 12, 2016
________________________
FAMILY COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS File #
151478 Docket #: O-1145915 SUMMONS (Publication)
In the Matter of a Family Offense Proceeding Domenica Pacheco, Petitioner,
- against - Regulo Gonzalez,
Respondent. IN THE NAME
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK: To:
Regulo Gonzalez Unknown
UNKNOWN, NY 00000 A
petition under Article 8 of
the Family Court Act having
been filed with this Court requesting the following relief:
Order of Protection; YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to appear before this Court on
Date/Time: April 20, 2016 at
9:00 AM Purpose: Return of
Process Part: 5 Floor/Room:
Floor 2/Room 250 Presiding:
Hon. Joan L. Piccirillo Location: Queens County 151-20
Jamaica Avenue Jamaica,
NY 11432 to answer the
petition and to be dealt with
in accordance with Article
8 of the Family Court Act.
On your failure to appear
as herein directed, a warrant
may be issued for your ar-
rest. Dated: March 1, 2016
Michael McLoughlin, Clerk
of Court TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: The
foregoing summons is served
upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon.
Joan L. Piccirillo of the Family
Court, Queens County, dated
and filed with the petition and
other papers in the Office of
the Clerk of the Family Court,
Queens County.
________________________
8714 87 Street LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY
on 2/4/16. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is
designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to Andreas
Sea, 4607 Jayson Ave., Great
Neck, NY 11020. General
purpose.
________________________
STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY
OF QUEENS SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.
700991/2015 WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff,
-vs- NELSON ROMERO,
TAMLA M. ROMERO, ASSET
ACCEPTANCE LLC, CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK
STATE DEPARTMENT OF
TAXATION AND FINANCE,
CITY OF NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
BOARD, CITY OF NEW YORK
TRANSIT ADJUDICATION
BUREAU, CITY OF NEW
YORK DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU,
MADISON RESOURCES
LTD., Defendants. To the
above named Defendants:
You are hereby summoned
to answer the complaint in
this action and to serve a
copy of your answer, or if
the complaint is not served
with this summons, to serve
a notice of appearance on
the plaintiff’s attorneys within
thirty days after the service
of this summons, exclusive
of the day of service, and in
case of your failure to appear
or answer, judgment will be
taken against you by default
for the relief demanded in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
copy of the answer on the
attorney for the mortgage
company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against
you and filing the answer with
the court, a default judgment
may be entered and you can
lose your home. Speak to an
attorney or go to the court
where your case is pending
for further information on
how to answer the summons
and protect your property.
Sending a payment to your
mortgage company will not
stop this foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
SERVING A COPY OF THE
ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING THE ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. This
is an attempt to collect a
debt and any information
obtained will be used for
that purpose. The foregoing
summons is served upon you
by publication pursuant to an
Order of Honorable Valerie
Brathwaite Nelson, Justice
of the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, signed
the 22nd day of February,
2016, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York.
The object of this action is
to foreclose a mortgage on
the following property: Tax
I.D. No. 12226-65 ALL that
certain plot, piece or parcel
of land, with the buildings
and improvements thereon
erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Queens,
City and State of New York,
bounded and described as
follows: BEGINNING at a
point on the northerly side
of Foch Boulevard fka Boyland Avenue and fka 119th
Avenue, 80 feet wide, 118.50
feet easterly from the corner
formed by the intersection of
the easterly side of 155 Street
fka Elder Avenue, 60 feet
wide and the northerly side of
Foch Boulevard; RUNNING
THENCE Northerly at right
angles with the northerly side
of Foch Boulevard and part of
the distance through a party
wall, 85 feet; THENCE Easterly parallel with the northerly
side of Foch Boulevard, 26.50
feet; THENCE Southerly
again at right angles with
the northerly side of Foch
Boulevard, 85 feet; THENCE
Westerly along the northerly
side of Foch Boulevard, 26.50
feet to the point or place
of BEGINNING. Subject to
easements, covenants, and
restriction of record. These
premises are also known
as 155-13 Foch Boulevard
A/K/A 11513 Foch Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11434.
________________________
Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC).
Name: KiaPari Consulting,
LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY)
on 9/15/2015. NY office
SSNY has been designated as
served. The address to which
the SSNY shall mail a copy
of any process against the
LLC served upon him/her is:
C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th
Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn
NY 11228. Purpose of LLC:
Any lawful purpose.
________________________
FAMILY COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNT Y OF QUEENS
File #: 151478 Docket #:
V-21504-15 SUMMONS In
the Matter of a Custody/
Visitation Proceeding Marilu
Javier, Petitioner, - against –
Regulo Gonzalez, Admin. For
Children’s Services-Queens,
Respondents. IN THE NAME
UNKNOWN, NY 00000 A
been filed with this Court,
and annexed hereto YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to appear before this court on
Jamaica Avenue Jamaica, NY
11432 to answer the petition
and to be dealt with in accordance with the Family Court
Act. On your failure to appear
may be issued for your arrest.
Dated: February 16, 2016
of Court NOTICE: Family
Court § 154(c) provides that
petitions brought pursuant to
Article 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of the
Family Court Act, in which an
order of protection is sought
or in which a violation of an
order of protection is alleged,
may be served outside the
State of New York upon a
Respondent who is not a
resident or domiciliary of
the State of New York. If no
other grounds for obtaining
personal jurisdiction over
the Respondent exist aside
from the application of this
provision, the exercise of
personal jurisdiction over the
respondent is limited to the
issue of the request for, or
alleged violation of, the order
of protection. Where the
Respondent has been served
with this summons and petition does not appear, the
Family Court may proceed to
a hearing with respect to issuance or enforcement of the
order of protection. NATURE
OF ACTION: Action for custody of Camila Gonzalez filed
by petitioner, Marilu Javier
against respondent, Regulo
Gonzelez RELIEF SOUGHT:
Order of custody of Camila
Gonzalez in favor of the
petitioner, Marilu Javier
________________________
SUPREME COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 27923/10 Date Purchased 11/5/10 AMEND¬ED
SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Queens County as
the place of trial Plaintiff
resides at 220 Cedar Ridge
Circle Winston-Salem, NC
27127 The basis of the
venue designated is property
location MARY FORD f/k/a
MARY M. WILCOX, Plaintiff,
-against- D.T. FUNDING
CORP. Defendant. To the
above named Defendant(s)
You are hereby summoned
copy of your answer, or, if
with this summons, to serve a
notice of appearance, on the
Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within
20 days after the service of
this summons, exclusive of
the day of service (or within
30 days after the service is
complete if this summons
is not personally delivered
to you within the State of
New York); and in case of
your failure to appear or
answer, judgment will be
for the relief demanded in the
complaint. Dated: June 20,
2011 New York, New York
MICHAEL M. COHEN, ESQ.
COHEN SCHNEIDER LLP ATTORNEYS FOR PLAIN¬TIFF
214-11 Northern Bou¬levard
Bayside, NY 11361 (718) 2794700 Defendant’s address:
D.T. FUNDING CORP., 184
Moll Street, Brooklyn, NY
11237 Notice to Defendant
Nature of the Action: Action
to Discharge a Mortgage Relief Sought: The cancellation
and discharge of record of the
mortgage dated September
28th, 1988, executed by
Plaintiff in favor of Defendant. Brief Descrip¬tion of
the Property: House and
lot located at 97-15 24th
Avenue, East Elmhurst, New
York, known as Sect: 7 Bloc:
1091 Lot: 38 on the Map of
the Borough of Queens and
Lots: 68 & 69 in Block: 354
on the map entitled “Map of
Property Belonging to Flushing Bay Building Corp.
________________________
Notice of Formation of LLC.
Name: RP Global Ventures
LLC. Articles of Organization
were filed with the Secretary
of State of New York [SSNY]
on 12/22/2015. NY office
as agent of the LLC upon
whom process against it may
copy of any process served
against the LLC to: 11530
196 Street, Saint Albans, NY
11412. Purpose of LLC: Any
lawful purpose.
________________________
Notice of formation of BOLIVIAN LLAMA PARTY, LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with the
Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 02/17/2016.
Office located in Queens
County. SSNY has been designated for service of process.
SSNY shall mail copy of any
process served against the
LLC to:BOLIVIAN LLAMA
PARTY, LLC, 87-30 113TH
STREET, APT 1, Richmond
Hill, NY 11418, Purpose: Any
lawful activity or purpose.
T
Whitestone
STATS
Photo by Joe Ullman
he tippy-top most
northern part of
Queens,
Whitestone is on the
water and has the
Bronx-Whitestone
Bridge
on its western side and the
Throgs Neck Bridge on its
eastern side. It’s an upper
middle class neighborhood
with stately homes as well
as apartments, more modest
homes, and industrial areas.
Malba is wealthy subsection
Photo by domenick Rafter
on Whitestone’s westernmost side.
By Lynn
British settlers came to Whitestone in
Edmonds
1643. In the 1800s, it became more developed when a tin and copper stamp-works
factory opened up in the neighborhood. The
factory had about 800 workers, whose presence greatly increased the neighborhood
population. The LIRR stop soon brought
lots of vacationers who wanted to enjoy the
waterfront to the area.
Today, the neighborhood is home to
many people of Greek, Italian, Irish Jewish and Asian American descent. There are
several large churches in the area, including
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, with
its iconic turquoise dome, St. Luke’s Roman
Catholic Church, and the Greek Orthodox
Holy Cross Church.
One of the most beautiful parts of Whitestone is the Beechhurst area which features
large, architecturally unique houses with
grassy yards. Beechhurst borders with Little
Bay Park, a waterfront park that connects
with Bayside’s Fort Totten Park and has a
walking and biking path and playing fields.
People like to fish there, though the fish are
The blue dome
of st. nicholas
Russian
orthodox
Church
is easily
seen across
Whitestone.
Francis Lewis Park under the Whitestone Bridge in the 1980s.
not safe to eat due to pollution, and take
in views of the Throgs Neck Bridge and the
open water.
The neighborhood has a journalistic
component, with the Queens Tribune/Press
of Southeast Queens offices, and the World
Journal, a Chinese-language paper with a
circulation of 350,000, located in the area.
Rumor has it that a large boulder, referred to in early documents, on the beach
front, gave Whitestone its name, though
it might just have been named for the lye
stone that covers the entire area.
There was once a Long Island Rail Road
Whitestone Branch but it was stopped during the great depression.
Famous one-time residents of the area
Population: 20,970
Community Board: 9
Senate: Tony Avella; U.S. House of Representatives: Joe Crowley
Precinct: 109th
Public Libraries: Poppenhusen branch
Famous Natives: Julie Chen (journalist/TV
host); Drea de Matteo (actress); Mike Baxter
(baseball player); Daniel Nigro (FDNY Commissioner)
include Walt Whitman, the poet who wrote
“Leaves of Grass.” He was known for walking New York and loving the city in all of
its high and low culture and for the diverse
people in it.
In one of his most famous epic poems,
“Song of myself,” he wrote “I loafe and invite
my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”
The poet taught free classes in 1840 at a
free school funded by philanthropist Samuel
Leggett.
Francis Lewis, a member of the Continental Congress who signed the Declaration
of independence, also lived in Whitestone.
Francis Lewis Park, underneath the BronxWhitestone Bridge, is named after him.
One landmark house in the area was the
“Wildflower” mansion, which belonged to
the Broadway producer Arthur Hammerstein. But in 1997 the property was made
into luxury condominiums.
LEISURE
Western Queens Women Leaders Honored
By yvette Brown
Staff Writer
In honor of Women’s History Month,
Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas (DAstoria) and U.S Rep. Carolyn Maloney
hosted a luncheon on Thursday at
Kaufman-Astoria Studios.
Together they honored three women
who have made remarkable contributions to the Western Queens neighborhood. The honorees were Carol
Scarano, district leader representing
Part B of the 36th Assembly, Elizabeth
Lusskin, president of the Long Island
City Partnership and executive director of the LIC Business Improvement
District, and Ana Rodriguez, director
of Community Relations and Volunteer Services at Mount Sinai Hospital
in Queens.
“Today’s honorees and Congresswoman Maloney are an inspiration for
me,” Simotas said. “They inspire me
to continue my focus on serving the
needs of my community and putting
my heart and soul into that work, as
each of them has done in their own
unique ways. Throughout our nation’s
history, women have fought for justice
and equality and these three women
motivate me to continue the fight for
future generations of women.”
Scarano is the co-executive leader of
the Taminent Regular Democratic Club
and one of the founders of SHAREing
and CAREing, which provides support
services for cancer patients. Scarano is
also the Vice President of the United
Community Civic Association and she’s
an active member of the Ravenswood
Lion’s, the Kiwanis Club of Astoria/
Photo courtesy Nys asssembly
Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, second from left, and Rep.
Carolyn Maloney, second from right, stand with the honorees of
their Women’s History Month Celebration.
Long Island City and the Boys and Girls
Club. She does all of this while still serving special needs children at the Martin
De Porres School.
“I am deeply honored to be one
of the women being recognized. We
can all celebrate the accomplishments
that the women’s movement has made
through the years,” said Scarano. “Although we have come a long way, we
must continue this fight to ensure the
future of those who will come after us.
As an educator working with troubled
youth I recognize the need to insure
that these young women receive the
education they will need to succeed in
life. Our youth are the future and we
are paving the way by all of us uniting
together to further the rights of women.
Let’s remember the sacrifices that those
brave pioneer women made and carry
on their work.”
Luskin has supported the growth
of the community’s commercial, residential and cultural arenas and is a
renowned veteran of government and
nonprofit service when she worked
for Gov. Mario Cuomo in Washington
wD.C. as a legislative counsel and in
the administration of former-Mayor
Michael Bloomberg on the New York
City Loft Board. Along with that, she
served on the NYC Rent Guidelines
Board and was the Deputy Commissioner for Programs and Development
in the NYC Department of Small Business Services.
She said she felt very privileged
to be working for the community of
Long Island City and expressed how
fortunate she felt to be recognized by
the elected officials.
Rodriguez guides the hospital to be
a resource for the community as well as
a trusted source of health information
and educational programs. Before her
work with Mount Sinai began, she was
an advocate for children, working with
the Greater NYC Councils, Boy Scouts
of America and prior to that, she was a
social worker, providing mental health
services to adolescents and adults at the
New York Presbyterian Hospital.
“I am happy to be celebrating Women’s History Month at the beautiful
Astor Room with such strong, talented
and accomplished women like Assemblywoman Simotas and our three
honorees, Carol Scarano, Elizabeth
Lusskin, and Ana Rodriguez,” said
Maloney. “These women work tirelessly day in and day out for the betterment of Western Queens, and each
of them embodies the highest ideals of
the movement for women’s equality in
the United States. They are certainly
deserving of this honor”
Reach Yvette Brown at (718)3577400 ext. 128, ybrown@queenstribune.
com or @eveywrites.
Unique Cars Drive Up At Auto Show
The 2016 New York International
Auto Show once again saw huge turnout
at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center
in Manhattan.
With dozens of automobile manufacturers showing off their
new lines for the upcoming
season, along with their
chance to show off their
extreme prototypes. The
New York show is one of
the more important auto shows in the
United States. This is why lately more
and more manufacturers choose this
show to debut their cars to the American public.
For example a small boutique coachbuilder called Spyker with only 250 cars
worldwide (120 in the USA) debuted
their new car the C8 Prelator of which
only 50 will be made. This was the
year for the Luxury
SUVs. Almost every
luxury car manufacturer debuted a new
one. From Mercedes
to the Maserati Levante.
Photos by scot t
Nussbaum
Clockwise from
bottom left:
The Spyker –
only 50 will be
made; BMWs
attracted a lot
of attention;
Take a look at
the Koeningsegg Agera;
Jaguar F-Pace
Queens DeaDline
Kasich Speaks To Voters In Howard Beach
By Jon Cronin
Staff Writer
With the New York presidential
primary less than three weeks away,
Queens got its first visit from one of
the contenders.
Ohio Governor and Republican
Presidential Candidate John Kasich
held a town hall interview hosted by
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd at St. Helen’s
Church in Howard Beach on Wed,
March 30.
Todd interviewed Kasich and
started off with a question about the
Republican’s most controversial candidate, Queens native Donald Trump.
Todd asked Kasich if he held Trump
responsible for all negativity he
spreads in his speeches.
Kasich said, “I choose to give
people hope,” and he believes that he
is driving people towards a future of
“doom and gloom”.
When asked if he would support
Trump if he became the Republican
nominee, Kasich replied, “I’m a Republican.” He said he doesn’t believe
that Trump will win. If he does have to
endorse the Republican nominee, he
hopes that it is someone he can truthfully tell his 16-year-old daughters
about why he is supporting this man.
Todd asked if he thought Trump
was sexist and Kasich dodged the
question, “We’re not in a psychologist’s office,” he said.
From the audience, a woman
named Nina de Blasio – no relation
to the mayor - said that she is on “the
Trump train” because he is defending Christian values and asked Kasich
what he has to say that would make
her change her vote.
Kasich answered by discussing welfare, “I believe it is a sin not to help
people that need help,” he added that
he also believes it is also a sin to help
someone who can help themselves.
He also noted that although he
doesn’t agree with liberals, he gets
Photos by Jon Cronin
Councilman eric ulrich, left, at Gino’s Pizzeria in Howard Beach with Kasich, and Queens GOP Chairman Bob Turner.
along with them. Kasich joked that
Democrats love to spend and so do
Republicans, “but Republicans feel
guilty about it.”
Kasich boasted about increased
police and community relations in his
home state of Ohio. He said he created a task force that has aided civilians
to help understand that police officers
have families and vice versa - helping
the police understand why civilians
are afraid of them.
He also noted that Ohio’s average
income is growing and that when he
gets in the White House, he will lower
the corporate tax rate because it is the
highest in the world. Kasich believes
the country’s economy is not growing
fast enough and it is moving faster in
Ohio. “We’re business friendly,” he
said of his home state.
It’s been rumored that Kasich may
accept a vice president nomination
on a ticket with Trump, but during
the town hall, he said wouldn’t accept
Ohio Gov. John Kasich with MsnBC host Chuck Todd at st. Helen’s
Church in Howard Beach on Wednesday.
it, “Cause I have the second best job
in the world,” adding, “ I would be
the worst VP.” He said people need
to start thinking about who can beat
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and who can be president.
Both parties will hold primaries
on April 19 in New York. Kasich and
Trump will face off with U.S. Sen Ted
Cruz (R-Texas), while Clinton faces a
challenge from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).
Cops Under Probe For
Taking Bribes From Bars
Twenty-three cops, including at
least a dozen from the 109th Precinct, are under investigation for
allegedly taking part in a protection
racket for Karaoke bars in Flushing,
DNAInfo reported.
These investigations follow the
arrests of Lt. Robert Sung and Detective Yatyu Yam in December on
corruption charges for protecting
these same club owners.
Yam allegedly received payments
for protecting up to eight Karaoke
bars from police action. According
to published reports, court documents said that Yam reached out
to the owner of Club JJNY at 14738 Northern Blvd. to offer protection in exchange for cash in 2013. A
year later, Yam prevented the arrest
of four individuals at the club who
were handcuffed for drug possession, DNAInfo wrote.
Two of the club owners would
supposedly come to Yam’s house
for barbeques and to make their
monthly $2,000 payments to him,
the report found.
Yam cooperated with the Internal Affairs Bureau on the investigation, while Sung declined to do so
and was fired. If convicted, he could
face seven years in prison, the report
found.
But these weren’t the only officers
involved in the investigation. About
a dozen officers from the 109th Precinct, and 23 officers in total, are being investigated for being involved
in the protection racket. Their levels
of alleged involvement range from
refusing to speak up and contact
Internal Affairs when they received
suspicious commands from Yam or
Sung, to “associating with a narcotics user” or a “known criminal,” and
even taking bribes themselves, the
report found.
Surveillance video shows cops releasing suspects or halting club raids
at Sung and Yam command, the report found.
About six officers have already
been taken off active duty, and three
have been transferred out of the
109th Precinct, the report found.
Precinct Commander Capt.
Thomas Conforti most likely will not
face charges because he spoke out
about suspicious activities two years
back, the news outlet also found.
The Queens District Attorney’s
Office, which conducted the investigation on Yam and Sung, said “the
District Attorneys office does not
comment on investigations or confirm that there is an investigation.”
–Lynn Edmonds
EDIT PAGE
In Our OpInIOn
One Borough, Many
Neighborhoods
When a Queens resident is asked where they are from, they very
rarely answer initially “Queens.”
Oh, we are proud of our Queens roots, don’t get us wrong, but our
borough is different than the others. The other boroughs have neighborhoods; Manhattan’s got Harlem, the Bronx has Parkchester and
Riverdale; Flatbush and Bay Ridge are neighborhoods in Brooklyn and
Tottenville is one in Staten Island, but in Queens our residents identify
where they are from by what neighborhood they live in.
Our mail goes not to Queens, New York, but to Jamaica Estates, Whitestone, Astoria or Richmond Hill. When the U.S. Postal Service wanted
to take that away in the 1990s, it led to a borough-wide uproar. They
backed off. For decades, Glendale has been fighting the Feds for the
right to have their mail go to “Glendale, NY” instead of “Ridgewood,
NY.” We know there’s a difference.
This history may come from centuries ago, when Queens was a rural county of small towns and hamlets, then later as suburbs to New
York City. But when we became part of the city in 1898, we refused to
change our neighborhood-centric worldview.
Our neighborhoods are what gives Queens its identity – as a county
of diversity. Each neighborhood proves the borough with a different
flavor, like ingredients to the world’s tastiest dish. When it counts, we
are one borough, and we fight as one borough, but we refuse to lose
the authenticity that comes with being a borough of neighborhoods.
We celebrate that authenticity with this issue and look forward to
46 more years – and then some – of covering the unique neighborhoods of Queens.
In YOur OpInIOn
MIH/ZQA Not Right For Queens
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To The Editor:
hile the intention of the new
Affordable Housing Plan
may be good, there are some
aspects of it that are absurd.
One of the chief problems with it is
that this one bill is supposed to be the
right fit for all five of boroughs in New
York City. Needless to say, this belief
could not be farther from the truth. Tall
buildings without parking spaces may
work well in Manhattan where there
are other skyscrapers to fit in with and
an abundant network of mass transit.
But this does not hold true in the outer
boroughs.
Evidence of this is the fact that 12 of
the 14 Community Boards in Queens
(86 percent) voted against this bill. This
is a significant statement. One of the
main functions of Community Boards
is to advise politicians and government
agencies how to best serve their neighborhood. It is a terrible situation when
our elected officials ignore what we tell
them we need.
One of the major objections to this
bill in Queens is the parking space requirement. I understand that the city
is attempting to make use of every inch
of available space, but cars are a necessity for many people that do not live in
Manhattan. The elderly and disabled
who are not able to walk to bus stops or
train stations rely on their cars especially
since there are many areas in Queens that
have little or no service at all. And for
parents with children, cars are important
for shopping, doctor appointments, and
getting to school.
One person was quoted as saying
“I believe it is more important for a
senior to have a place to rest than a car.”
However, what good is a place to live if
that senior is now trapped there like a
prisoner, unable to go anywhere?
Lee Rottenberg,
Middle Village
A
higher-fee or more risky investments,
all to pocket bigger commissions for
themselves.
The U.S. Department of Labor has
proposed closing this loophole with a
new rule that would require all financial advisers to put their clients’ best
interests first.
Crowley voted against HR 1090,
which would block the rule. Yet there
are other, ongoing efforts in Congress
to stop, weaken or delay the rule. Representative Crowley should oppose any
and all such efforts and continue to
stand up for us, and not Wall Street’s
bottom line.
Beth Finkel,
New York State Director,
AARP
Thank You Rep. Crowley
To The Editor:
mericans’ retirement savings
are vulnerable. U.S. Rep. Joe
Crowley should be commended
for supporting a fix, but we need him to
continue standing firm.
Hard-working Americans lose out on
as much as $17 billion a year because of
a legal loophole that allows bad-acting
financial advisers to steer clients to
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________________________
Notice of Formation of Law
Offices of Tenzin Wangyal,
PLLC. Articles of Org. filed
with the Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on
01/20/2016. Office located
in Queens County. SSNY has
been designated for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
against the PLLC to: 4015,
29th St., Ground Fl, Long
Island City, NY 11101. Purpose: Any lawful activity or
purpose.
________________________
K.R. Crescent LLC Arts of Org
filed with NY Sec of State
(SSNY) on 11/13/15. Office: Queens County. SSNY
designated as agent of LLC
upon whom process may
process to: 38-40 Crescent
St, LIC, NY 11101. General
Purposes.
________________________
INDEX NO.: 705206-2013.
Date Filed: 2/19/2016. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS
WITH NOTICE MORTGAGED PREMISES: 7608/18 69th Place, Apt/Unit
3H, Glendale, New York
11385. BL #: 3706-1028.
Plaintiff designates QUEENS
County as the place of trial;
venue is based upon the
county in which the mortgaged premises is situate.
STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY
OF QUEENS WELLS FARGO
BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE
FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES
2006-FRE2, ASSET-BACKED
PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff, -againstI LONA ALMENDAREZ,
ROGER ALMENDAREZ, if
they be living, and if dead,
the respective heirs at law,
next of kin, distributees,
executors, administrators,
trustees, devisees, legatees,
assignors, lienors, creditors
and successors in interest,
and generally all persons
having or claiming under, by
or through said defendant
who may be deceased, by
purchase, inheritance, lien
or otherwise of any right,
title or interest in and to the
premises described in the
complaint herein, and their
respective husbands, wives or
widows, if any, and each and
every person not specifically
named who may be entitled
to or claim to have any right,
title or interest in the property described in the verified
complaint; all of whom and
whose names and places of
residence unknown, and cannot after diligent inquiry be
ascertained by the Plaintiff,
ET AL., Defendants. TO THE
ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY
SUMMONED to answer
the Complaint in this action
and to serve a copy of your
answer, or, if the Complaint
is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of
appearance on the attorneys
for the Plaintiff within 20 days
after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day
of service (or within 30 days
after service is complete if this
Summons is not personally
delivered to you within the
State of New York). In case
of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken
against you by default for the
relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN
DANGER OF LOSING YOUR
HOME IF YOU DO NOT
RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
BY SERVING A COPY OF
THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO
FILED THIS FORECLOSURE
PROCEEDING AGAINST
YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A
DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY
BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN
LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK
TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO
TO THE COURT WHERE
YOUR CASE IS PENDING
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY.
SENDING PAYMENT TO
YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS
FORECLOSURE ACTION.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. THE OBJECT of the above captioned
action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $291,200.00
(said loan was modified to
$296,186.71 by loan modification agreement effective
as of May 16, 2011) and
interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of QUEENS
June 16, 2006 in CRF Number
20060000340832 covering
premises known as 76-08/18
69th Place, Apt/Unit 3H,
Glendale, New York 11385
– BL #: 3706-1028. The relief
sought in the within action
is a final judgment directing
the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the
debt secured by the Mortgage described above. The
Plaintiff also seeks a deficiency judgment against the
Defendant and for any debt
secured by said Mortgage
which is not satisfied by the
proceeds of the sale of said
premises. TO the Defendant
ILONA ALMENDAREZ and
ROGER ALMENDAREZ,
the foregoing Supplemental
Summons with Notice is
served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of
the Hon. Howard G. Lane,
JSC of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York,
County of Queens, dated
January 20, 2016. Dated:
New Rochelle, NY February
17, 2016. MCCABE, WEISBERG & CONWAY, P.C.
/s/_________________ Natalie Giraldo, Esq. Attorneys
for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot
St., Ste. 210 New Rochelle,
NY 10801 p. 914-636-8900
f. 914-636-8901 HELP FOR
HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE
LAW REQUIRES THAT WE
SEND YOU THIS NOTICE
ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE
PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT
CAREFULLY. SUMMONS
AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL
TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
IN THIS FORECLOSURE
ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE
YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ
THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU
SHOULD IMMEDIATELY
CONTACT AN ATTORNEY
OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL
AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN
ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES
OF INFORMATION AND
ASSISTANCE. The State
encourages you to become
informed about your options
in foreclosure. In addition to
seeking assistance from an
attorney or legal aid office,
there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for
information about possible
options, including trying to
work with your lender during
this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the
toll-free helpline maintained
by the New York State Banking Department of Financial
Services at 1-800-342-3736
or visit the Department’s
website at www.dfs.ny.gov.
FORECLOSURE RESCUE
SCAMS Be careful of people
who approach you with offers
to “save” your home. There
are individuals who watch for
notices of foreclosure actions
in order to unfairly profit from
a homeowner’s distress. You
should be extremely careful
about any such promises and
any suggestions that you pay
them a fee or sign over your
deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for
profit to enter into a contract
which fully describes the
services they will perform
and fees they will charge, and
which prohibits them from
taking any money from you
until they have completed all
such promised services.
________________________
Notice of formation of Beyond Tutors LLC. Articles of
Organization filed with the
York (SSNY) on 01/20/2016.
LLC to: Yiming Yang, 21775 Corbett Rd, Bayside, NY
11361Purpose: Any lawful
activity or purpose.
________________________
Cherished Memories Photography LLC, Art. of Org. filed
with the SSNY 3/7/2016.
Office:Queens County SSNY
designated as agent of the
LLC upon whom process
against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail copy of
process to the LLC at: 192-16
109th Road, St. Albans, NY
11412 Purpose: Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNT Y OF QUEENS
Plaintiff designates QUEENS
as the place of trial situs of
the real property. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises 31-27 105TH
STREET EAST ELMHURST,
NEW YORK 11369 Block:
1692 Lot: 39 INDEX NO.
709400/2014 OCWEN
LOAN SERVICING, LLC,
Plaintiff, vs. JAIME TAVAREZ if
living, and if she/he be dead,
any and all persons unknown
to plaintiff, claiming, or who
may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific
lien upon the realproperty
described in this action;
such unknown persons being
herein generally described
and intended to be included
in the following designation,
namely: the wife, widow,
husband, widower, heirs at
law, next of kin, descendants,
executors, administrators,
devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees,
lienors, and assignees of
such deceased, any and all
persons deriving interest in
or lien upon, or title to said
real property by, through
or under them, or either of
them, and their respective
wives, widows, husbands,
widowers, heirs at law, next
of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees,
legatees, creditors, trustees,
committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose
names, except as stated, are
unknown to plaintiff; THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK; UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA; WALKIRIA
CABRERA; CAPITAL ONE
BANK (USA), N.A.; NEW
YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU; NEW
YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD, THE
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK; UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE
#1” through “JOHN DOE
#12,” the last twelve names
being fictitious and unknown
to plaintiff, the persons or
parties intended being the
tenants, occupants, persons
or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in
or lien upon the premises,
described in the complaint,
Defendants. To the above
named Defendants YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
copy of your answer, or, if
with this summons, to serve
a notice of appearance on
the plaintiff’s Attorney within
30 days after the service is
complete if this summons is
not personally delivered to
you within the State of New
York) in the event the United
States of America is made a
party defendant, the time to
answer for the said United
States of America shall not
expire until (60) days after
service of the Summons;
and in case of your failure
to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against
you by default for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT
THE OBJECT of the above
caption action is to foreclose
a Mortgage to secure the sum
of $639,000.00 and interest,
recorded on April 30, 2007,
at CRFN 2007000223131,
of the Public Records of
QUEENS County, New York,
covering premises known as
31-27 105TH STREET, EAST
ELMHURST, NEW YORK
11369. The relief sought in
the within action is a final
judgment directing the sale
of the premises described
above to satisfy the debt
secured by the Mortgage
described above. QUEENS
County is designated as the
place of trial because the
real property affected by
this action is located in said
county. NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this summons and
complaint by serving a copy
of the answer on the attorney
for the mortgage company
who filed this foreclosure
proceeding against you and
filing the answer with the
court, a default judgment
Sending a payment to the
stop the foreclosure action.
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. Dated:
August 17, 2015 RAS Boriskin, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff
BY: DANIEL GREENBAUM,
ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 106 Westbury,
NY 11590 (516) 280-7675
________________________
Jennie Wong DDS PLLC,
a domestic PLLC, Arts. of
Org. filed with the SSNY on
2/19/16. Office location:
Queens County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom
process against the PLLC may
process to The PLLC, 3811
204th St., Bayside, NY 11361.
Purpose: Dentistry.
________________________
FAMILY COURT OF THE
STATE OF NE W YORK
COUNTY OF QUEENS File #:
151478 Docket #: O-1145715 SUMMONS In the Matter
of a Family Offense Proceeding Marilu Javier, Petitioner,
- against – Regulo Gonzalez,
Respondent. IN THE NAME
UNKNOWN, NY 00000 A
been filed with this Court,
and annexed hereto YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
to appear before this court on
Jamaica Avenue Jamaica, NY
11432 to answer the petition
and to be dealt with in accordance with the Family Court
Act. On your failure to appear
may be issued for your arrest.
Dated: February 16, 2016
of Court NOTICE: Family
Court § 154(c) provides that
petitions brought pursuant to
Article 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 of the
Family Court Act, in which an
order of protection is sought
or in which a violation of an
order of protection is alleged,
may be served outside the
State of New York upon a
Respondent who is not a
resident or domiciliary of
the State of New York. If no
other grounds for obtaining
personal jurisdiction over
the Respondent exist aside
from the application of this
provision, the exercise of
personal jurisdiction over the
respondent is limited to the
issue of the request for, or
alleged violation of, the order
of protection. Where the
Respondent has been served
with this summons and petition does not appear, the
Family Court may proceed
to a hearing with respect to
issuance or enforcement of
the order of protection. NATURE OF ACTION: Action for
a Family offense against the
respondent, Regulo Gonzalez, filed by petitioner, Marilu
Javier RELIEF SOUGHT:
Order of Protection against
the respondent, Regulo Gonzalez in favor of the petitioner,
Marilu Javier
________________________
PIX
The Grand Phagwah Parade 2016
Photos by Jon Cronin
Celebrants were all smiles at the Hindu Holi Phagwah Parade in Richmond Hill on Saturday, March
26.
There were almost two dozen floats with music
and dancing residents throwing confetti and a colorful powder called abrac, which is meant to symbolize beauty coming back into the world after a dreary
winter.
People from all over the city descended on Richmond Hill. Those marching in the parade threw the
abrac at those lining the streets as children, parents,
site-seers and friends chased and bombarded each
other with the colorful powder.
The parade began at Liberty Avenue and 130th
Street and marched to 125th Street, then south to Phil
Rizzuto Park (Also known as Smokey Oval Park) on
Atlantic Avenue, where post-parade celebrations were
held. This is the biggest Phagwah celebration in North
America and has grown in popularity in recent years,
with city-dwellers coming from all five boroughs to
take part in the festivities.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Notice of formation of AS
TEC HOME Inspection LLC.
Articles of Org. filed with the
York (SSNY) on 1-11-2016.
Count y. SSNY has been
designated for service of
process. SSNY shall mail
against the LLC to: Chingfu
Max Lee, 41-14B Main St
#D84 Flushing, NY 11355,
Purpose: Any lawful activity
or purpose.
________________________
Epoxy Resurface Systems
LLC, filed with the SSNY on
01/08/2016. Office location: Queens County. SSNY
is designated as agent upon
whom process against the
LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to The
LLC, 14 Augusta St. Elmwood
Park, NJ 07407. Any lawful
purpose.
________________________
Notice of formation [domestic] of Multi.Malik LLC Articles
of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State on 03/07/2016,
office location: Queens
LLC 91-19 222nd St Queens
Village NY 11428. Purpose:
any lawful purpose.
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY
OF QUEENS THE BANK
OF NEW YORK MELLON
F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW
YORK AS SUCCESSOR IN
INTEREST TO JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE
FOR C-BASS MORTGAGE
LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-CB8,
Plaintiff(s), Against Index No.:
28467/11 DHANRAJ GAGRAJ, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to a Judgment of
Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered in the Queens County
Clerk’s Office on 8/20/2015,
I, the undersigned Referee,
will sell at public auction at
the Queens County Supreme
Court, 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, NY in Courtroom #25 on 4/22/2016 at
10:00 am, premises known as
136-26 61st Road, Flushing,
NY 11367, and described
as follows: ALL that certain
plot, piece or parcel of land,
with the buildings and improvements thereon erected,
situate, lying and being in
the Third Ward, Borough
and County of Queens, City
and State of New York, and
designated on the tax maps of
the Queens County Treasurer
as Block 6386 and Lot 12.
The approximate amount of
the current Judgement lien
is $405,517.89 plus interest
and costs. The premises will
be sold subject to provisions
of the aforesaid Judgment of
Foreclosure and Sale; Index
# 28467/11. If the sale is
set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a
return of the deposit paid.
The Purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee
or the Mortgagee’s attorney.
SUBSITITUTE REFEREE AT
SALE, Esq., Referee. Leopold
& Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110,
Armonk, NY 10504 Dated:
2/11/2016 GNS
________________________
an Order granted by the Civil
Court, Queens County, on
March 2, 2016, bearing the Index number 1141/15, a copy
of which may be examined
at the Office of the Clerk of
Civil Court Queens County
located at 89-17 Sutphin blvd.
Jamaica, NY 11435 grants me
the right to assume the name
of AE KYUNG HAN. My present address is 34-29 41 Street
apt.2L, LIC, NY 11101. The
date of my birth is January
23, 1953; the place of birth
is Seoul, Korea; the present
name is Adrienne Aekyung
Han Shin.
________________________
App Mirror LLC, filed with
the SSNY on 2/05/16, Office
SSNY is designated as agent
upon whom process against
the LLC may be served. SSNY
shall mail process to App
Mirror LLC, 147-35 38 Ave,
Apt B25, Flushing, NY 11354.
Any lawful purpose.
________________________
TASK HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec.
of State (SSNY) 11/17/15.
Office in Queens Co. SSNY
design. Agent of LLC upon
whom process may be
served. SSNY shall mail
copy of process to The LLC
P.O. Box 604561 Bayside, NY
activity.
________________________
Notice is hereby given that a
license, number 1292689 for
a “Restaurant Wine License”
has been applied for by the
undersigned to serve Beer /
Wine at retail in the restaurant
under the Alcohol Beverage
Control Law at PPP Family
Inc. d/b/a Plant Love House,
located at 86-08 Whitney Avenue, Elmhurst, NY 11373 for
on premises consumption
________________________
STATE OF NEW YORK –
COUNTY OF QUEENS INDEX# 704301/2014 FILED:
6/04/2015 SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS AND NOTICE
Plaintiff designates Queens
County as the place of trial.
Venue is based upon the
County in which the mortgage premise is situated. THE
BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF
NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE
FOR THE CERTIFICATE-
HOLDERS OF THE CWALT,
INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN
TRUST 2006-40T1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH
CERTIFCATES, SERIES 200640T1, Plaintiff, against Nereida Bermudez if she be living
and if she be dead, the respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin,
distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees,
lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally
all persons having or claiming
under, by or through said
defendant(s) who may be
deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance,
any right, title or interest in
or to the real property described in the Complaint,
ZAIBUN NISA, NEW YORK
CIT Y ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL BOARD, CITY OF
NEW YORK DEPT. OF HOUSING PRESERVATION & DEVELOPMENT, NATIONSTAR
MORTGAGE, LLC, THE BANK
OF NEW YORK MELLON
FKA THE BANK OF NEW
YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF
CWHEQ, INC., HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET BACKED
CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006S8, and “JOHN DOE” and
“JANE DOE”, the last two
names being fictitious, said
parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any,
having or claiming an interest
in, or lien upon the premises
described in the complaint,
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND
FINANCE, UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, Defendant(s).
TO THE ABOVE NAMED
DEFENDANTS: NOTICE
YOU ARE IN DANGER OF
LOSING YOUR HOME IF
YOU DO NOT RESPOND
TO THIS SUMMONS AND
COMPLAINT BY SERVING A
COPY OF THE ANSWER ON
THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE
MORTGAGE COMPANY
WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU AND FILING
THE ANSWER WITH THE
COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED
AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR
HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE
COURT WHERE YOU CASE
IS PENDING FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION ON HOW
TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTEC T
YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR
MORTGAGE COMPANY
WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU
MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY
FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND
FILING THE ANSWER WITH
THE COURT. YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the Complaint in this
action and to serve a copy of
your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this
Summons, to serve a notice
of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days
after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of
service (or within 30 days
after the service is complete
if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within
the State of New York); The
United States of America, if
designated as a Defendant in
this action, may appear
within (60) days of service
thereof and in case of your
failure to appear or answer,
judgment will be taken
against you by default for the
relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE
OF ACTION AND RELIEF
SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of
the above captioned action
is to foreclose on a mortgage
in the sum of $584,000.00
with interest only for 120
months dated October 12,
2006, executed by
defendant(s) ZAIBUN NISA
to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,
INC. AS NOMINEE FOR
AMERICA’S WHOLESALE
LENDER recorded on November 8, 2006 in CRFN:
2006000622958, in the Office of the Clerk of the
County Of QUEENS. MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS
NOMINEE FOR AMERICA’S
WHOLESALE LENDER assigned all of its rights, title and
interest in the Mortgage by
way of an assignment executed June 8, 2012 to THE BANK
OF NEW YORK MELLON
FKA THE BANK OF NEW
YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE
CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF
THE CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 200640T1, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFCATES,
SERIES 2006-40T1. The assignment was duly recorded
in the Office of the Clerk of
the County Of QUEENS on
June 22, 2012, in CRFN:
2012000248440. Said correction assignment of mortgage corrects the assignment
of mortgage executed February 20, 2008 and recorded
the County of QUEENS on
August 4, 2009, in CRFN:
2009000240965, for reason
of incorrect assignee, covering premises known as 12318 85th Ave, Kew Gardens,
NY 11415. (Block 9269 and
Lot 9). The relief sought
within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the
premises described above to
satisfy the debt described
above. To the above named
Defendants: The foregoing
Summons is served upon you
by publication pursuant to an
order of the Hon. Allan B.
Weiss, Justice of the Supreme
Court of the State of New
York, and filed along with the
supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the
Count y Of Queens on
05/13/2015. This is an action
to foreclose on a reverse
mortgage. ALL that certain,
plot, piece or parcel of land,
with the buildings and improvements thereon erected,
situate, lying and being in the
Borough and Count y of
Queens, City and State of
New York, Block 9269 and
Lot 9. Said premises known
as 123-18 85th Ave, Kew
Gardens, NY 11415. YOU
ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A
DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
By reason of the default in
the payment of the monthly
installment of principal and
interest, among other things,
as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of
the aforementioned note and
mortgage, or their agents
have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and
declare the entire mortgage
indebtedness immediately
due and payable. The following amounts are now due and
owing on said mortgage, no
part of any of which has been
paid although duly demanded: The unpaid principal sum
of the Note and Mortgage in
the amount $584,000.00
with accrued interest at
7.500% per annum, from
June 1, 2007 to be immediately due and payable. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE
VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR
ANY PORTION THEREOF,
WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS
AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY
PORTION THEREOF, IS
DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR
JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU
AND A COPY OF SUCH
VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO
YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT
COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN
REQUEST, WITHIN SAID
THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD,
THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU
WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL
CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE
RECEIVED A DISCHARGE
FROM THE UNITED STATES
BANKRUPTC Y COURT,
YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS
OWED TO PL AINTIFF/
CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR
COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE
New York State requires that
we send you this notice about
the foreclosure process.
Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT
You are in danger of losing
your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and
Complaint in this foreclosure
action, you may lose your
home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or
your local legal aid office to
obtain advice on how to
protect yourself. SOURCES
OF INFORMATION AND
ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options
in foreclosure. In addition to
seeking assistance from an
attorney or legal aid, there
are government agencies,
and non-profit organizations
that you may contact for information about possible
options, including trying to
work with your lender during
this process. To locate an
entity near you, you may call
the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state
Banking Department at
1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the
Department’s website at
www.banking.state.ny.us
FORECLOSURE RESCUE
SCAMS Be careful of people
who approach you with offers
to “save” your home. There
are individuals who watch for
notices of foreclosure actions
in order to unfairly profit from
a homeowner’s distress. You
should be extremely careful
about any such promises and
any suggestions that you pay
them a fee or sign over your
deed. State law requires
anyone offering such services
for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the
services they will perform and
fees they will charge, and
which prohibits them from
taking any money from you
until they have completed all
such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE
IN DANGER OF LOSING
YOUR HOME If you do not
respond to this Summons and
Complaint by serving the
may be entered and you may
how to answer the Summons
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
AND FILING AN ANSWER
WITH THE COURT. Kozeny,
McCubbin & Katz, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 40
Marcus Drive, Suite 200
Melville, NY 11747 Our File
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LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
________________________
Notice of formation of Real
Tours, LLC. Articles of Org.
filed with the Secretary of
State of New York (SSNY) on
03/03/2016. Office located
in Queens County. SSNY has
been designated for service
of process. SSNY shall mail
against the LLC to: United
States Corporation Agents,
LLC, 7014 13th Ave, suite
202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.
Purpose: Any lawful activity
or purpose
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE Supreme
Court County of Queens SONA PERSAUD, Plaintiff
against MAHESHA WARI
PHARSI and MADAMPURI
SARJU, Defendants - Pursuant to an Order of Hon.
Thomas D. Raffaele dated
1/05/2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at
public auction at the Queens
County Courthouse, 88-11
New York, in Courtroom #25,
on 4/08/2016, at 10:00 a.m.,
premises known as 104-53
114th Street, Richmond Hill,
New York 11419. All that
certain plot piece or parcel
of land, with the buildings
and improvements thereon
erected, situate, lying and
being in the New York City
Borough of Queens, County
of Queens, and State of
New York, Block 9537, Lot
63. Premises will be sold
subject to provisions of filed
Order entered in the Queens
County Clerk’s Office on
1/14/2016, under Index No.
24261/2002. Joseph D. Vitulli, Referee; Lall & Associates,
P.C., Attorneys for Plaintiff,
45 Rockefeller Plaza, Suite
2000, New York, NY 10111
Dated 1/26/2016
________________________
SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS THE BANK
OF NEW YORK MELLON
CORPORATION AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET
MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS
II INC. MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES
SERIES 2005-AR8, V. ANDREW WINT, et al. NOTICE
OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN pursuant to a Final
Judgment of Foreclosure
dated October 26, 2015,
and entered in the Office of
the Clerk of the County of
QUEENS, wherein THE BANK
OF NEW YORK MELLON
CORPORATION AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET
MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS
II INC. MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES
SERIES 2005-AR8 is the Plaintiff and ANDREW WINT, ET
AL. are the Defendant(s). I,
the undersigned Referee will
sell at public auction at the
QUEENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE, COURTROOM
#25, 88-11 SUTPHIN BLVD.,
JAMAICA NY 11435, on April
29, 2016 at 10:00am, premises known as 15328 118TH
AVENUE, JAMAICA, NY
11434: Block 12208, Lot 35:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT,
PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND,
WITH THE BUILDINGS AND
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING
AND BEING IN THE BOROUGH AND COUNTY OF
QUEENS, CITY AND STATE
OF NEW YORK Premises will
of filed Judgment Index #
12579/2010. Kathleen C.
Gallo, Esq. - Referee. RAS
Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants
Concourse, Suite 106, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff
________________________
S U P P L E M E N TA L S U M MONS Index No.:
703013/2014 Date of Filing:
March 7, 2016 SUPREME
COURT OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK COUNTY
OF QUEENS JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff,
-against- ALICE MALNER AS
HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF
KIN OF FRANK A MALNER;
ANTHONY MALNER AS
HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF
KIN OF FRANK A MALNER;
STACIE MALNER AS HEIR AT
LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF
FRANK A MALNER; AMELIA
BEYREUTHER; ANNA MALNER; NEW YORK CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS BUREAU;
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT
ADJUDICATION BUREAU;
DISCOVER BANK ; NEW
YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD;
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND
FINANCE ; “JOHN DOES”
and “JANE DOES”, said
names being fictitious, parties intended being possible
tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other
entities or persons who claim,
or may claim, a lien against
the premises, Defendants.
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED
DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE
HEREBY SUMMONED to
answer the complaint in this
action and to serve a copy of
your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this
summons, to serve a Notice
of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty
(20) days after the service
of the day of service, where
service is made by delivery
upon you personally within
the State, or within thirty
(30) days after completion of
service where service is made
in any other manner, and in
the complaint. NOTICE YOU
ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do
not respond to this summons
and complaint by serving a
YOU MUST RESPOND BY
(MORTGAGE COMPANY)
WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE
HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE
THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT,
AND ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE. - TO
THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing
summons is served upon you
by publication pursuant to
an Order of the Honorable
Valerie Brathwaite Nelson
of the Supreme Court of the
State of New York, signed
on February 22, 2016, and
filed with supporting papers
the County of Queens, State
of New York. The object of
this action is to foreclose a
mortgage upon the premises
described below, executed
by FRANK A MALNER to
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
in the principal amount of
$65,000.00, which mortgage
was recorded in Queens
County, State of New York,
on March 7, 2007, in CRFN:
2007000123228. Thereafter
said mortgage was assigned
to JPMORGAN CHASE
BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, by assignment
of mortgage dated April
6, 2012 and recorded in
CRFN: 2012000174429 in
the County of Queens on
May 2, 2012. Said premises
being known as and by 60-23
67TH AVE, RIDGEWOOD,
NY 11385. Date:
O c to ber 30, 2015 Batavia, New
York Virginia C. Grapensteter,
Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI &
ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys
for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26
Harvester Avenue Batavia,
NY 14020 585.815.0288
Help For Homeowners In
Foreclosure New York State
Law requires that we send
you this notice about the
foreclosure process. Please
read it carefully. Mortgage
foreclosure is a complex
process. Some people may
approach you about “saving” your home. You should
be extremely careful about
any such promises. The State
encourages you to become
informed about your options
in foreclosure. There are
government agencies, legal
aid entities and other nonprofit organizations that you
may contact for information
about foreclosure while you
are working with your lender
during this process. To locate
an entity near you, you may
call the toll-free helpline
maintained by the New York
State Banking Department
at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.
banking.state.ny.us. The State
does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.
________________________
Notice of formation of Joanne
Beauty Lab, LLC Articles of
organization filed with the
York SSNY on 3/1/16. Office
located in Queens County.
for service of process. SSNY
shall mail copy of any process
served against the LLC. 6073 60th Lane, Maspeth, NY
purpose.
________________________
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY
OF QUEENS Nationstar
Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff
AGAINST Adrian Torres; et
al., Defendant(s) Pursuant
to a Judgment of Foreclosure
and Sale duly dated October
22, 2015 I, the undersigned
Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County
Courthouse, Courtroom #25,
88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on April 29,
2016 at 10:00AM, premises
known as 31-44 84th Street,
East Elmhurst, NY 11370. All
that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings
and improvements erected,
situate, lying and being in
the Borough and County of
Queens, City and State of
New York, Block 1395 Lot 30.
Approximate amount of judgment $883,441.90 plus interest and costs. Premises will
of filed Judgment Index#
15324/2009. Jeffrey Kim,
Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro
& Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for
the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing
Boulevard Rochester, New
York 14624 (877) 759-1835
Dated: March 22, 2016
________________________
Athar-Rahman Cush -vs- Rkia
Eljel Cush 10266/15 ACTION
FOR DIVORCE To the above
named Defendant: YOU
ARE HEREBY SUMMONED
copy of your answer on the
[x] Plaintiff within twenty
(20) days after the service
of the day of service, where
service is made by delivery
upon you personally within
the state, or within thirty
(30) days after completion
of service where service is
made in any other manner. In
the complaint [x] Plaintiff:
Athar-Rahman Cush
________________________
NY 11435, grants me the right
to: Assume the name of (First)
Alva (Middle) Rebeca (Last)
Mooses My present name
is (First) Cathleen (Middle)
Rebeca (Last) Mooses aka
Cathleen R. Mooses, aka
Cathleen Mooses My present
address is 47-31 37th Street,
Long Island City, NY 111011829 My place of birth is
Chicago, IL My date of birth
is June 28, 1982
________________________
right to: Assume the name of
(First) Jasmine (Middle) Olivia
(Last) Yang My present name
is (First) Mo L. (Last) Yang aka
Mo-Li Yang, aka Mo Li Yang
(infant) My present address is
63-60 98th Street, Apt. #F15,
Rego Park, NY 11374-2222
My place of birth is Taiwan
My date of birth is March
11, 2014
________________________
of (First) Kenneth (Middle)
Kabid (Last) Farhan My present name is (First) Kenneth
(Middle) Kabid (Last) Singh
(infant) My present address
is 33-15 81st Street, Apt.
#1H, Jackson Heights, NY
11372-1314 My place of birth
is Queens, NY My date of
birth is July 16, 2004 Assume
the name of (First) Keenan
(Middle) Karib (Last) Farhan
My present name is (First)
Keenan (Last) Singh (infant)
My present address is 33-15
81st Street, Apt. #1H, Jackson
Heights, NY 11372-1314 My
place of birth is Queens, NY
My date of birth is December
29, 2008
________________________
Magdy (Middle) Ibrahim
(Last) Khalil-Mohamed My
present name is (First) Khalil
Mohamed (Middle) Ibrahim
(Last) Magdy aka Magdy I.
Mohamed, aka Magdy M.
Mohamed, aka Mohamed
M. Magdy My present address is 35-53 82nd Street,
Apt. #6E, Jackson Heights,
NY 11372-5149 My place
of birth is Egypt My date of
birth is June 18, 1957
________________________
of (First) Sam (Middle) Xiujun
(Last) Jiang My present name
is (First) Xiujun (Last) Jiang
My present address is 6969
113th Street, Forest Hills, NY
11375-3925 My place of birth
is China My date of birth is
November 22, 1992
________________________
Civil Court, Queens County,
on MAR 02 2016, bearing
Index No. 1167/15, a copy
of which may be examined at
the office of the clerk of Civil
Court, located at QUEENS
COUNTY CIVIL COURT
89-17 SUTPHIN BLVD. JAMAICA, NY 11435-3710,
New York, grants me the
right, to assume the name
RAMEEZ ROGER BARNES.
My present address is 14602 Huxley Street, Rosedale,
New York 11422; the date
of my birth is October 31,
1990; I was born in Guyana;
my present name RAMEEZ
THIRKAPERSAUD
________________________
Ahmed (Middle) Alfred (Last)
Sayeed Hernandez Cano My
present name is (First) Alfredo
(Last) Hernandez Cano My
present address is 3435
74th Street, Apt. #3, Jackson
Heights, NY 11372-2174
My place of birth is Mexico
My date of birth is January
29, 1982
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