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OUR NEIGHBORHOOD: THE WAY IT WAS
Here’s another public improvement scene from our past. This May 1925
photo shows street cleaning crews removing garbage from a location on
Forest Avenue in Ridgewood.
This image taken on Feb. 3, 1932 shows the exterior of Maspeth’s P.S.
73, located at what was then the intersection of Maspeth Avenue and
Clermont Avenue. Today, it’s the intersection of 54th Avenue and 71st
Street.
entered World War II, and resources
were devoted to the war eff ort.
Of course, Queens would see
several expressways constructed in
the years aft er World War II ended.
Master planner Robert Moses would
construct the Long Island Expressway
beginning the 1950s from the Queens
Midtown Tunnel to Riverhead, Long
Island. Much of the route in Queens
would be built along Horace Harding
Boulevard.
The Queens Boulevard freeway
photo is just one of the hundreds of
thousands of photos in the New York
City Municipal Archives. We’re fortunate
to share many more images from
the archives with you in this week’s
column.
For more historical images of
Queens and the other boroughs,
visit https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/
luna/servlet.
Classic television fans might recognize this home located at 89-70 Cooper
Ave. in the above photo taken around 1940. Today, it’s called “the Archie
Bunker House,” as the exterior of the home fi gures prominently in the
opening credits of “All in the Family,” the 1970s sitcom starring Carroll
O’Connor as the ignorant yet hilarious Archie Bunker.
Crews are shown building one of the baseball diamonds at Victory Field in Forest Park in this May 15, 1941,
image. The fi eld’s construction was one of many public work projects across Queens during the Franklin D.
Roosevelt Administration.
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