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A 1901 article in the Brooklyn Eagle already uses the full name Queens Village, [14] a name that had been used as late as the 1880s for Lloyd's Neck in present-day Suffolk County. [15] In 1923, the Long Island Railroad added "Village" to its station's name to avoid confusion with the county of the same name, and thus the neighborhood became ...
David Conklin House: Huntington, Long Island: c. 1750 Ireland-Gardiner Farm: Greenlawn, Long Island: c. 1750 Isaac Losee House: Huntington, Long Island: c. 1750 One of the oldest private residences on Long Island Henry Smith Farmstead: Huntington Station, Long Island: 1750 Built about 1750 and remodelled in the 1860s Steenburgh Tavern ...
Cooper Avenue Row Historic District is a national historic district in Glendale, Queens, New York. It includes seven contributing buildings built in 1915. They consist of two story, flat front brick rowhouse dwellings with one apartment per floor. They are constructed of yellow brick with burnt orange brick details.
[5] [6] The Long Island Rail Road provides freight access via the Montauk Branch, the Rockaway branch of that line took that right-of-way which runs diagonally through the neighborhood from northwest to southeast. There was a Long Island Rail Road station named Richmond Hill on Hillside Avenue and Babbage Street along the Montauk Branch ...
The Queens County Farm Museum, also known as Queens Farm, is a 47-acre (190,000 m 2) farm in the Floral Park and Glen Oaks neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. The farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland (in operation since 1697), and is still a working farm today. Queens Farm practices sustainable ...
All goods shipped by rail with a destination on Long Island (Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau and Suffolk counties), must come through the Fresh Pond/Fremont Yards, located in Glendale, which is the crossroads of the LIRR Montauk Branch, the Bay Ridge Branch (which serves the docks and float barges in Sunset Park, Brooklyn), the Bushwick Branch and ...
When the western part of Queens County was consolidated with New York City in 1898, that area became the Borough of Queens. In 1899, the remaining eastern section of Queens County was split off to form Nassau County on Long Island, thereafter making the borough and county of Queens coextensive with each other.