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Myrtle Avenue at Lewis Avenue, showing a remaining portion of the Myrtle Avenue Elevated train left standing after the line's western portion was demolished in October 1969. Myrtle Avenue is a 8.1-mile-long (13.0 km) street that runs from Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn to Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens, in New York City, United ...
Near the northwest corner of Hillside Avenue and Myrtle Avenue sat an old time ice cream parlor, Jahn's. It closed in late 2007. Between Myrtle Avenue and the Montauk Line railroad is a former movie theatre, RKO Keith's Richmond Hill Theater, opened in 1929, functioning since 1968 as a bingo hall. [9] [10] Many homes in the district are white.
Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.) is a New York City group founded in the 1990s [1] that conducts organized rat catching with ratting dogs.The group was named by founding member Richard Reynolds after Ryders Alley in Manhattan, which was once rat infested, and the trencher-fed pack assembled to hunt.
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 ...
Jamaica Avenue, from Alabama Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn to the Nassau County line, is 10.9 miles (17.5 km) long. [ 10 ] The Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station ( E , J , and Z trains) with its associated bus station is a major transport hub, a rival to the nearby Jamaica–179th Street station ( F and <F> trains) on Hillside Avenue.
East River-Hunters Point. Hunter's Point South is a mixed-use development situated on approximately 30 acres of prime waterfront property in 30 acres (120,000 m 2) in Long Island City, the westernmost neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
The New York City borough of Queens contains 82 landmarks designated by the LPC, [a] 4 interior landmarks, and 13 historic districts. The following is a complete list as of 2022. Some of these are also National Historic Landmark (NHL) sites, and NHL status is noted where known.