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J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building is a historic commercial building in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was built in 1931 and is a six-story, steel-frame building with two decorated sides in the Art Deco style. It is three bays by six bays and features a metal-framed windows with stepped pylon motif rising through all four ...
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.It has a popular large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis, St Albans, and Cambria Heights to the east; South Jamaica, Rochdale Village, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Springfield Gardens to the south; Laurelton and Rosedale to the southeast ...
By the 1950s, there were Jahn's locations across Brooklyn with the most popular in Flatbush, and others in Marine Park, Bay Ridge, Sheepshead Bay, the Fordham section of the Bronx, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Bayside, Queens, Eastchester, East Meadow, West Islip, Great Neck, Williston Park, Rockville Centre, Cedarhurst, Union, New Jersey ...
Gertz was a New York-based department store, headquartered in Jamaica, Queens. Founded in 1918 by Benjamin Gertz, along with his five sons, [1] the company was acquired by Allied Stores in 1941. [2] [3] Gertz department store in Mid-Island Plaza in Hicksville, New York in 1957
King Kullen was founded by Michael J. Cullen, a former Kroger [2] employee who wanted to design a more modern supermarket. [citation needed] While acting as branch manager of the Herrin, Illinois, Kroger Grocery & Baking Company stores, managing 94 small stores, [3] Cullen wrote a six-page letter to John Bonham, a Kroger vice-president, proposing a new type of food store with a focus on low ...
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 Estates is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Jamaica Estates is part of Queens Community District 8 [ 1 ] and located in the northern portion of Jamaica . It is bounded by Union Turnpike to the north, Hillside Avenue to the south, Utopia Parkway and Homelawn Street to the west, and 188th Street to the east.
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.