CEMETERIES
Acacia Cemetery
83-84 Liberty Ave, Ozone Park
718-845-9240
Bayside Cemetery
Liberty Avenue and 80th
Street, Ozone Park
718-843-4840
Beth David Cemetery
300 Elmont Road, Elmont
516-328-1300
Calvary Cemetery
49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd,,
Woodside
718-786-8000
Catholic Cemeteries Guild
80-01 Metropolitan Ave.,
Flushing
718-894-4888
Cedar Grove Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding
Expressway, Flushing
718-939-2041
Congregation Shaare Zedek
Cemetery
8035 Pitkin Ave., Jamaica
718-843-4840
Elmont Cemetery
300 Elmont Road, Elmont
516-328-1300
Flushing Cemetery
163-06 46th Ave., Flushing
718-359-0100
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Co. Building
Built: 1929
Address: 90-04 161st St.,
Jamaica
The two-story base is clad
in brick and stone and the
ground fl oor window and
entrance bays are deeply
recessed. The upper fl oors are
faced in brick and articulated
with projecting piers and
decorative spandrel panels.
WESTERN
Astoria Park Pool and Play
Center
Built: 1934-36
Address: 19th Street between
22nd Drive and Hoyt Avenue
North, Astoria
Many architects, landscape
architects and engineers
were hired to create the pool
program and the hundreds
of other new construction
and rehabilitation projects
undertaken between 1934
and 1936 by the then-new city
Parks Department. Embedded
into what has now become
a wooded slope, the play
center complex was designed
Knollwood Park Cemetery
Inc.
57-80 Cooper Ave., Ridgewood
718-366-5900
Linden Hill Cemetery
52-22 Metropolitan Ave.,
Flushing
718-821-2279
Linden Hill Methodist
Cemetery
323 Woodward Ave., Flushing
718-821-6480
Lutheran All Faiths
Cemetery
67-29 Metropolitan Ave.,
Flushing
718-821-1750
Machpelah Cemetery
82-30 Cypress Hills St.,
Ridgewood
718-366-5959
Maimonides Cemetery
90 Elmont Rd., Elmont
516-775-6222
Maple Grove Cemetery
127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew
Gardens
718-544-3600
Mokom Sholom Cemetery
80-07 Pitkin Ave., Ozone Park
718-845-6030
Montefi ore Cemetery
to take advantage of its
surroundings.
Congregation Tifereth Israel
Built: 1911
Address: 109-18 54th Ave., Corona
The oldest active synagogue
in Corona, the Congregation
121-83 Springfi eld Blvd.,
Springfi eld Gardens
718-528-1700
Mt. Carmel Cemetery
83-45 Cypress Hills St., Glendale
718-366-5900
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding
Expressway, Flushing
718-939-9405
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Elmont Road, Elmont
516-347-0095
Mt. Judah Cemetery
81-14 Cypress Ave., Ridgewood
718-821-1060
Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
78-00 Myrtle Ave., Glendale
718-821-0200
Mt. Neboh Cemetery
83-55 Cypress Hills St., Glendale
718-366-0215
LANDMARKS
Tifereth Israel is a survivor of
the earliest Jewish synagogues
built in Queens. This
synagogue, whose full name
is translated as “Congregation
Independent Community, Glory
of Israel, People of Corona,”
was built in 1911 to house a
congregation of Jews that had
relocated to Queens primarily
from other parts of the city.
Fire Engine Co. No. 258/
Hook and Ladder Co. No. 115
Built: 1902-04
Address: 10-40 47th Ave.,
Long Island City
Designed by Bradford
Lee Gilbert, the Dutch
Renaissance Revival-style
building was erected as part
of a campaign to expand fi re
protection in Queens and
improve working conditions
for Queens fi refi ghters. Long
Island City was the fi rst area
in the borough to have a
professional fi re department
and both companies trace
their origins to an act by the
state Legislature in 1890.
Newtown High School
Built: 1920-21
Address: 48-01 90th St.,
Elmhurst
The school was the result of
several building campaigns,
which began with the
construction of a small,
wooden school house in
1866 to serve children from
the Village of Newtown and
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
65-40 Grand Ave., Maspeth
718-326-1777
Mount Saint Mary’s
Cemetery
164-15 Booth Memorial Ave.,
Flushing
718-353-1560
Mt. Zion Cemetery
59-63 54th Ave., Maspeth
718-335-2500
St. John’s Cemetery
surrounding farms.
PS 66
Built: 1898
Address: 85-11 102nd St.,
Richmond Hill
The red brick building
is Victorian Eclectic in
style. Many of its features
are characteristic of the
Romanesque Revival style
and give the building a
fortress-like appearance,
including prominent round
arches highlighting window
openings and the main
entrance, a fl ared base and
a distinctive, six-story tower,
which was restored in 2001.
Richmond Hill Republican
Club
Built: 1908
Address: 86-15 Lefferts Blvd.,
Richmond Hill
Vacant since the mid-1980s,
the Richmond Hill Republican
Club is an example of a
clubhouse designed to
serve the social, political
and recreational needs of
a local community and a
prototype of small-scale
Colonial Revival style civic
architecture.
80-01 Metropolitan Ave., Middle
Village
718-894-4888
St. Michael’s Cemetery
72-02 Astoria Blvd., East
Elmhurst
718-278-3240
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Ave., Flushing
718-366-3748
Ridgewood Theater
Building
Built: 1916
Address: 55-27 Myrtle Ave.,
Ridgewood
This theater showed movies
for more than 90 years,
retaining its original use
through numerous changes
in the presentation of movies
and the interior environment
of the theater, including the
addition of sound for “talkies”
and in spite of the competition
provided by television and
other forms of entertainment.
Sohmer & Co. Piano Factory
Building
Built: around 1886
Address: 31-01 Vernon Blvd.,
Long Island City
The original part of the
building, which included the
clock tower, was built as the
piano factory for Sohmer &
Co. It was designed by the
fi rm Berger & Baylies, which
produced plans for commercial
and residential buildings
throughout New York City,
including several warehouses
and store-and-loft buildings.
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