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The school is located on 87th Road near Parsons Boulevard and Hillside Avenue, in the former Jamaica Jewish Center building. [1] [2] [3] The building was built in 1928, [4] and renovated in 1998 in order to convert it into a school building. [2]
In 1998, the Jamaica Jewish Center was renovated in order to convert it into a school building for Queens Gateway. [17] [33] The school began using the building on September 8, 1998. [26] [34] In December 2001, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) announced plans to construct a new 800-seat building for Queens Gateway. [35]
The Summit School of Queens, New York was founded by Hershel Stiskin [3] in 1968 as a charter school for children and adolescents with a wide array of special needs.When Stiskin moved to Israel in 1972, [3] his brother, Mayer and sister-in-law Ninette—founders of Summit's residential center in Upper Nyack, [9] [10] which is also affiliated with the school, as well as Summit Camp & Travel [11 ...
The Queens Jewish Center, also known as Queens Jewish Center and Talmud Torah or QJC, is an Orthodox synagogue in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community. [2] The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel.
Congregation Tifereth Israel ("Splendor of Israel") is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Corona section of Queens, in New York City, New York, in the United States. [4] It was founded by Ashkenazi Jews who had moved to Queens from Manhattan's Lower East Side. [1] Estée Lauder and her parents were early members. [1] [5]
Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located in the neighborhood of Hollis Hills in Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The congregation was formed through a May 2021 consolidation of the Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center and the Marathon Jewish Community Center. [3]
The First Reformed Church has been refurbished as part of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. The asymmetrical towers, round-arched openings, and corbel tables are examples of an architectural style known as Rundbogenstil. [3] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, [4] and a New York City Landmark in 1996.
The Free Synagogue of Flushing is a Reform Jewish congregation and historic synagogue located at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue's establishment is based on the free synagogue movement, started by Stephen Samuel Wise.