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NORTHEASTERN QUEENS

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(from East River to Grand Central Parkway)

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  • Ft. TOTTEN PARK, Cross Island Pkwy, bet. Totten Ave & 15 Rd.  

    • BAYSIDE HISTORICAL  

    • CIVIL WAR FORTRESS- Urban Park Rangers lead tours

    • VISITOR'S CENTER MUSEUM

Ft. Totten Castle/Bayside Historical Society

Bayside

boundaries: E- Cross Island Parkway; W- Francis Lewis Blvd.; S- Long Island Expressway

 

This is an upper middle class neighborhood in Queens. This area had once been farmland-- like many neighborhoods in NYC, it grew due to better transportation. In 1857 US Government bought a peninsula close to Bayside from the Willets family. In the 1920’s many actors and actresses moved into this community for there were rampant rumors of movie and production studios were building there. Unfortunately for Bayside, Hollywood was the city chosen for the industry.  The actors and actresses moved out of this community, but a growing middle class moved in and it continues to grow.

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Little Neck

boundaries: S- Long Island Expressway; W- 288th St.; N- Little Neck Bay/Udall;s Cove;

 

 

Fishermen harvested Little Neck Bay for the small hard clams and served in the best restaurants of New York. Today, the hard clams known as Littleneck clams, even though they are no longer harvested there. The neighborhood took its name for these re-known clams. This is an upper middle class area.

Jacob Adriance Farmhouse & Museum

  • QUEENS FARM PARK, Creedmoor Farm Park, Little Neck Pkwy bet. 73 Rd & 74 Ave.  

    • JACOB ADRIANCE FARMHOUSE

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Flushing

boundaries: Horace Harding Expressway to Willets Pt. Blvd; Francis Lewis Blvd./Utopia Pkwy to Whitestone Expressway and Van Wyck

 

(includes Eastchester, Flushing Chinatown, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill)

 

The second settlements in 1643 in the area and one of the major land owners was John Bowne. Mr. Bowne allowed Quakers to worship in his home, which was not allowed. He took this grievance to the Dutch West India Company and an agreement, the Flushing Remonsteance, was signed in December 1657. It might be claimed that this was the birthplace for religious freedom in the new world.

  • FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, Grand Central Pkwy, Whitestone Expwy (111St & College Point Blvd.)

    • COLUMN OF JERASH, gift from King Hussein of Jordan, originally erected in 120AD by Romans in Jordanian city of Jerash (one of the few antiquities in NYC)

    • FREEDOM OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT by Marshall Fredericks 

    • GATES OF LIFE by Albino Manca

    • GEORGE WASHINGTON as Master Mason by Donald De Lue

    • ROCKET THROWER by Donald De Lue

    • UNISPHERE by architect Gilmore D. Clarke 

 

  • KISSENA PARK, Fresh meadows La., Kissena Blvd. between Oak Ave., Underhill & Booth Memorial Ave.

    • KISSENA PARK MEMORIAL KNOLL 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fresh Meadows

boundaries: E- Cunningham Park; S- Union Turnpike & St. John's University; W- South Flushing; NE- Hillcrest

 

 

At one time there was a fresh water stream which traversed the area, the neighborhood named for this stream. In 1923 the Fresh Meadow Country Club opened and it held the U.S. Open in 1932.

 

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Fresh Meadows

  • CUNNINGHAM PARK, LIE, 73 Ave., Union Turnpike GCP bet 193 St. Francis Lewis Blvd.

    • ARTHUR CUNNINGHAM by Emil Siebern

Oakland Gardens

boundaries: Horace Harding Blvd.; Cross Island Pkwy; Francis Lewis Blvd; Grand Central Pkwy

 

 

The area was a farm in the 1800's owned by a famous New York family, Lawrence and Frederick Newbold. He was a colonel during the Civil War and later became president of the NY Stock Exchange.

 

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Oakland Gardens

  • ALLEY POND PARK, Little Neck Bay, LIE, Union Tpk, between Springfield Blvd., Douglaston Pkwy, Hanford St.

    • GERTRUDE WALDEYER PROMENDE at Oakland Lake

    • THE ALLEY POND GIANT- tulip tree between 350 to 450 years of age

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Eastbound-Westbound by John Chadwell

Kew Gardens

boundaries: N- Forest Hills; E- Briarwood; S- Maple Grove Cemetery

 

 

 

In the 19th Century, this was one of the planned communities.  This area developed by Albon Man.  In 1875 Maple Grove Cemetery opened and LIR opened a station here for the mourners. The station is a landmark building.

 

 

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  • FOREST PARK, Myrtle Ave., Union Turnpike, Park Lane South,between Brooklyn-Queens County Line and Park Lane

    • THE SEUFFERT BANDSHELL, named after George Seuffert Sr. whose band began playing at the park

    • THE CAROUSEL by master wod-carver Daniel C. Muller

Hillcrest

boundaries: Union Turnpike to Long Island Expwy; from Utopia Pkwy to 164th Street

 

This neighborhood created by the Hillcrest of Jamaica Company and it developed in 1909.

 

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Hillcrest

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