Queens directories

Queens Directories Ã¢ÂÂ of New York City Ã¢ÂÂ were, before 1898, an assortment of village directories, Queens County directories, Long Island Directories, and add-ins or partial inclusions to New York City directories. In 1898, 30% of the western part of the old Queens County was absorbed into New York City. Before 1898, Nassau County covered the eastern 70% of the old Queens County. The older, larger Queens County was mostly agricultural, and within it were several towns, villages, and hamlets. In the mid- to late-19th century, cemeteries constituted one of the larger industries in Queens, Kings (Brooklyn), and Westchester (north of The Bronx) Counties. As of 1898, Queens County, New York, and the Borough of Queens, New York City, geographically, have been the same. Both Queens and Brooklyn are on Long Island. (this article includes selected bibliography and selected timelines that help identify people of Queens throughout its history)

Timeline and highlights

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The evolution of Queens intra- and interconnectivity through transit

Bridges and tunnels

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Pratt in Doggett's 1845 directory: Pratt & Co., daguerreotypes, 293 Broadway

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Map gallery

Neighborhoods, neighborhood microcosms Ã¢ÂÂ including selected ethnic enclaves

Because neighborhoods are unincorporated communities, the boundaries and gradations of recognizability vary.

<ol type="1" start="1"> <li> Astoria <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Astoria Heights</li> <li> Ditmars <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Steinway</li> </ol> </li> <li> Little Egypt</li> <li> Norwood Gardens</li> <li> Ravenswood</li> </ol> </li> <li> Jackson Heights <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Jackson Heights Historic District</li> <li> Jackson Heights Business District</li> </ol> </li> <li> Long Island City <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Blissville</li> <li> Hunters Point <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> MoMA PS1</li> <li> Gantry Plaza State Park</li> </ol> </li> <li> Dutch Kills</li> <li> Queensbridge</li> <li> Queensview</li> <li> Queens West <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Queens Plaza <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Queens Plaza Park</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Sunnyside <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Sunnyside Gardens <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Phipps Gardens</li> </ol> </li> <li> Sunnyside Yard</li> </ol> </li> </ol> <ol type="1" start="5"> <li> Bayside <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Bayside Gables</li> <li> Bay Terrace</li> <li> Bayside Hills</li> <li> Fort Totten</li> <li> Oakland Gardens</li> <li> Lawrence Cemetery</li> </ol> </li> <li> Bellerose</li> <li> College Point</li> <li> DouglastonÃ¢ÂÂLittle Neck <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Douglaston <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Douglas Bay</li> <li> Douglas Manor</li> <li> Douglaston Hill</li> <li> Douglaston Park</li> <li> Winchester Estates</li> <li> Douglaston Historic District</li> <li> Douglaston Hill Historic District</li> </ol> </li> <li> Little Neck <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Pines</li> <li> Little Neck Hills</li> <li> Westmorland</li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Flushing <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Flushing Chinatown</li> <li> Auburndale</li> <li> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Bowne Park</li> </ol> </li> <li> Chinatown</li> <li> Downtown Flushing</li> <li> Kew Gardens Hills</li> <li> Linden Hill</li> <li> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Koreatown</li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Flushing MeadowsÃ¢ÂÂCorona Park <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Shea Stadium</li> <li> Citi Field</li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> New York Hall of Science</li> <li> Flushing Meadows Natatorium</li> <li> Corona Ash Dumps (1920s)</li> </ol> </li> <li> Pomonok <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Electchester</li> <li> Queensboro Hill</li> </ol> </li> <li> Floral Park, Queens</li> <li> Fresh Meadows <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Hillcrest</li> <li> Utopia</li> </ol> </li> <li> Glen Oaks <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> North Shore Towers</li> <li> Queens County Farm Museum</li> </ol> </li> <li> Whitestone <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Beechhurst</li> <li> Clearview</li> <li> Malba</li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="16"> <li> Briarwood</li> <li> Corona <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> LeFrak City</li> <li> North Corona</li> <li> Willets Point</li> </ol> </li> <li> East Elmhurst <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Lent Homestead and Cemetery</li> <li> LaGuardia Airport</li> </ol> </li> <li> Elmhurst <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Chinese enclave</li> <li> Elmhurst Park</li> </ol> </li> <li> Forest Hills <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> West Side Tennis Club</li> </ol> </li> <li> Forest Hills Co-op</li> </ol> </li> <li> Glendale</li> <li> Kew Gardens <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Kew Bolmer</li> </ol> </li> <li> Maspeth <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Mount Olivet Cemetery</li> </ol> </li> <li> Middle Village <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Juniper Park <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Juniper Valley Park</li> </ol> </li> <li>Remsen Cemetery</li> </ol> </li> <li> Rego Park</li> <li> Ridgewood <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Wyckoff Heights</li> <li> Fresh Pond</li> <li> Fresh PondÃ¢ÂÂTraffic Historic District</li> </ol> </li> <li> Woodside <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Little Manila</li> <li> Boulevard Gardens</li> <li> Moore-Jackson Cemetery</li> </ol> </li> </ol> <ol type="1" start="28"> <li> Brookville (aka Springfield Gardens)</li> <li> Cambria Heights</li> <li> Hollis <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Holliswood</li> </ol> </li> <li> Jamaica <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Jamaica Estates</li> <li> Jamaica Hills</li> <li> Rochdale Village</li> <li> John F. Kennedy International Airport</li> <li> Prospect Cemetery</li> </ol> </li> <li> Laurelton</li> <li> Meadowmere</li> <li> Queens Village <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Bellaire</li> <li> Hollis Hills</li> </ol> </li> <li> Rosedale <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Warnerville</li> </ol> </li> <li> St. Albans</li> <li> South Jamaica <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Baislely Park</li> <li> South Jamaica Houses</li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="38"> <li> The Hole</li> <li> Howard Beach <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Hamilton Beach</li> <li> Howard Park</li> <li> Lindenwood</li> <li> Old Howard Beach</li> <li> Ramblersville</li> <li> Rockwood Park</li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Ozone Park <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Centreville</li> <li> South Ozone Park <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Aqueduct Racetrack</li> </ol> </li> <li> Tudor Village</li> </ol> </li> <li> Richmond Hill <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Little Pubjab</li> </ol> </li> <li> Woodhaven</li> </ol> <ol type="1" start="43"> <li> Rockaway Peninsula <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Far Rockaway</li> <li> Wavecrest</li> <li> Bayswater</li> <li> Edgemere <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Edgemere Landfill</li> </ol> </li> <li> Arverne</li> <li> Somerville</li> <li> Hammels</li> <li> Rockaway Beach</li> <li> Seaside</li> <li> Rockaway Park</li> <li> Belle Harbor</li> <li> Neponsit</li> <li> Breezy Point</li> <li> Roxbury</li> <li> Broad Channel (adjacent to the Rockaways)</li> </ol> </li> </ol>

Bygone Queens communities, community names, and pieces of land

<ol type="1" start="1"> <li> Astoria <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Jackson Heights <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Long Island City <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="4"> <li> College Point <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Flushing <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Bowne Park </li> <li> Ingleside </li> <li> Flushing Park </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Whitestone <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Beechhurst <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Trow Settlement </li> </ol> </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="8"> <li> <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Middelburgh (1652Ã¢ÂÂ1664)</li> <li> New Towne (1665Ã¢ÂÂ1896)</li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> West Maspeth <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Melvina (hamlet)</li> </ol> </li> <li> Laurel Hill / West Maspeth <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Berlinville (established 1870s)</li> </ol> </li> <li> Woodside <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Winfield </li> </ol> </li> <li> Ridgewood <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Linden Hill </li> </ol> </li> <li> Middle Village <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Whitepot </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="14"> <li> Hollis <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Holliswood <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Terrace Heights </li> </ol> </li></ol> </li> <li> Jamaica <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Springfield </li> </ol> </li> <li> Queens Village <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> Creedmoor </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="17"> <li> Howard Beach <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

<ol type="1" start="18"> <li> Rockaway, Queens <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> </ol> </li> <li> Far Rockaway <ol type="a" start="1"> <li> </li> </ol> </li> </ol>

The Village of Creedmoor (now part of Queens Village and Glen Oaks), was, essentially, an elaborate, internationally acclaimed rifle range that was, before 1872, part of a farm owned and operated by Bernardus Hendrickson Creed (1811Ã¢ÂÂ1889). In July 1872, the State of New York, on behalf of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), for $26,250 (), purchased 70 acres of level land from Creed, and, on June 21, 1873, opened an outdoor firing range with assistance of (i) the U.S. War Department (Army Corps of Engineers), (ii) the State of New York under the auspices of the New York Army National Guard, and (iii) the City of New York. Its name was selected by newspaper man, Col. Henry G. Shaw ( Henry Glenville Shaw; 1843Ã¢ÂÂ1907). He initially named it Creed's Moor, a geographical reference, and the name eventually became Creedmoor Rifle Range. The Central Railroad of Long Island Ã¢ÂÂ on a line that ran from Long Island City to Bethpage Ã¢ÂÂ opened its Creedmoor branch January 8, 1873. Creedmoor's international match, first held in 1874, was the forerunner of the Palma trophy competition. In 1892, as a result of declining public interest and mounting noise complaints from the growing neighborhood, the NRA deeded its land back to the state. In 1908, the State Legislature dedicated the land for use by the Long Island State Hospital. In 1912, the property became the Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital, which eventually became the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, located south of the interchange of Grand Central and the Cross Island Parkways. (see Google Map aerial view of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center) After 1960, parts of the property Ã¢ÂÂ the Cornell Farmhouse or the Creedmoor Farmhouse Complex or the Jacob Adriance Farmhouse Ã¢ÂÂ became part of the Queens County Farm Museum. (see Google Map aerial view of Queens County Farm)
Mussel Island Ã¢ÂÂ no occupants ever Ã¢ÂÂ was a small and marshy piece of land at the junction of Maspeth Creek and Newtown Creek. (Google Map aerial view the location of the former Mussel Island, at the confluence of Newtown and Maspeth Creeks)

Selected Queens directories not found online

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Long Island City: Daily and Weekly Star Ã¢ÂÂ Thomas H. Todd & Co. (publisher). ; .
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Queens directories

Timeline and highlights

The evolution of Queens intra- and interconnectivity through transit

Bridges and tunnels

Map gallery

Neighborhoods, neighborhood microcosms Ã¢ÂÂ including selected ethnic enclaves

Bygone Queens communities, community names, and pieces of land

Selected Queens directories not found online

Bibliography

Annotations

Notes

References

External links

Neighborhoods, neighborhood microcosms Ã¢ÂÂ including selected ethnic enclaves