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Three representative examples are Woodside Apartments built in 1913, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's project of 1922, and the projects of the Woodside Development Corporation in 1923. Located near the rail and rapid transit stations, the Woodside Apartments was a row of four-story, semi-detached buildings.
The Boulevard Gardens Apartments is a 960-unit apartment complex at 54th Street and 31st Avenue in Woodside, Queens, New York City. It opened in June 1935, during the Great Depression . [ 1 ] They were designed by architect Theodore H. Englehardt [ 2 ] for the Cord Meyer Development Corporation; the design was based on an apartment complex ...
Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in two separate complexes (North and South). [1]
the largest public housing complex in the United States. The oldest Public Housing development in Queens: Ravenswood Houses: Long Island City: 31 6 and 7 2,167 July 31, 1951 Redfern Houses: Far Rockaway: 9 6 and 7 604 June 1, 1959 Rehab Program: College Point: Shelton Houses: South Jamaica: 1 12 155 October 31, 1978 South Jamaica I Houses ...
In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Woodside, Queens; 0–9. 52nd Street station (IRT Flushing Line) 61st Street–Woodside station;
The Brooklyn and Queens section runs 10 miles (16 km) and begins in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where it connects to the Richmond Tunnel for Staten Island. It passes through Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Bushwick before reaching Maspeth, Queens. From Maspeth it runs through Woodside and Astoria, where it connects to the end of the Stage One ...
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
The platforms, as viewed looking east from the 61st Street–Woodside station. Woodside originally had two railroad stations. One was built in 1861 on 60th Street by the LIRR subsidiary New York and Jamaica Railroad; the other, larger station was built by the Flushing and North Side Railroad on November 15, 1869, and was the first to be built by the F&NS after acquiring the troubled New York ...