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Lefferts Boulevard is a major north–south thoroughfare in Queens, New York City, running through the communities of Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and South Ozone Park.Its northern end is at Kew Gardens Road, in Kew Gardens, and its southern end is located within John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was established in 1841. [1] When the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew came into state ownership in 1841 Sir Willian Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) was appointed its first Director. [1] Over the period 1841 to 1856 Hooker established four curatorial posts at Kew, namely:
Queens, New York, U.S. Communities served: Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, South Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park: Start: Kew Gardens, Queens – Queens Boulevard / Kew Gardens Road & 80th Road: Via: Lefferts Boulevard, Rockaway Boulevard, 130th Street: End: South Ozone Park, Queens – 149th Avenue & 150th Avenue JFK Airport – Lefferts Boulevard ...
Development was threatening Brooklyn's rural setting by the end of the 19th Century and in 1917, John Lefferts' estate offered the family's home to the City of New York with the condition that the house be moved onto city property as a means of protection and historic preservation. The house was moved six blocks to Prospect Park. [3]
The Church of the Resurrection is a historic Episcopal church and rectory in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York City. It was originally built in 1874 as a frame, Gothic Revival style church. It was extensively remodeled and enlarged in 1904 in the Late Gothic / Tudor Revival style.
[7] [22] [23] [24] The building was designed by architect John Russell Pope, and later by the Eggers & Higgins firm after Pope's death, in Art Moderne-style. Then-New York City Commissioner of Hospitals Dr. Sigismund Goldwater supervised the design. [25] [26] [27] A tunnel in the basement connected to the now demolished Queens General Hospital ...
Queens Borough Hall is a public building in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City. It houses the Office of the Queens Borough President and other city offices and court space. [1] It is located in the Kew Gardens municipal facilities stretch bounded by Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike among other ...
In 1993 the famed Kitty Carlisle Hart was hostess at a Queens Theatre in the Park gala held at Terrace on the Park. [19] The operators of the theater have been listed as a nonprofit since 1997. [20] A member of the Cultural Institutions Group, it is funded in part from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. [21]