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Other notable contributing resources include the Ellenville United Methodist Church (1858), First National Bank Building (1868), Wawarsing Town Hall (1895), Norbury Hall, Scoresby Hook and Ladder, Cohen's Bakery, Ellenville Electric Co. Building (1914), Home National Bank (1928), H. Rosenstock and Sons clothing factory (c. 1920), the Miller ...
The village of Ellenville is about 90 miles northwest of New York City and 90 miles southwest of Albany.The village is located at the junction of routes NY 52 and U.S. Route 209, and is bisected by the recently designated Shawangunk Scenic Byway.
Maps from 1873 show portions of Queens Village (then called Inglewood and Queens) in the town of Hempstead, [10] but 1891 maps show it entirely in the town of Jamaica. [ 13 ] After the Borough of Queens became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York in 1898, and the new county of Nassau was created in 1899, the border between the ...
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a region which was noted for its summer resorts that catered to Jewish vacationers, especially residents of New York City. [1] The resorts, now mostly defunct, were located in the southern foothills of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, bordering the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.
The urban renewal programs instituted by Robert Moses in the 1950s and '60s contributed to the year round residency and eventual decline of Far Rockaway as a resort community. [5] The closing of the primary rail bridge after a fire in 1950, and the migration of families to other beaches also contributed to changes in the community. [ 6 ]
Rockaway Beach in the 1880s, with new railroad and resort hotel. What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different hamlets, Holland and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. Holland had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Germany, bought a tract of land just east of Holland.
1909 Map of Queens (now Queens Village) station. Between March and November 1837, the current site of Queens Village station was the site of an early Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad station named Flushing Avenue station then renamed DeLancey Avenue station and later named Brushville station until it was moved to what is today 212nd Street, the site of the former Bellaire station, which was used ...