WWW.QNS.COM RIDGEWOOD TIMES MARCH 7, 2019 27
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD: THE WAY IT WAS
Flooding hit much of Forest Hills following a storm in the summer
of 1926. This picture, taken that August, shows a horse-and-buggy,
followed by a Ford Model-T, making their way through a flooded
Metropolitan Avenue near Ascan Avenue.
The corner of Seneca and DeKalb Avenues in Ridgewood was an important
point in the local transportation infrastructure in December 1926,
when this photo was taken. The “car barns” housing local trolleys were
located just off the intersection, out of the view of this image. The car
barns have long since been demolished; the site now houses the Grover
Cleveland High School athletic field.
Cobble stones lined what was then called part of Woodhaven Boulevard,
but is now known as Cross Bay Boulevard, at Conduit Boulevard (today’s
Conduit Avenue) in Ozone Park. The photographer was looking south
when this picture was taken, and you can see the low-lying area of
Howard Beach in the background, still not yet fully developed.
This 1940 photo shows the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and 80th
Street, looking westbound, in Middle Village, close to the main entrance
to St. John Cemetery.
Beautiful homes are shown under construction along Union Turnpike jus
off of Myrtle Avenue in Glendale in this October 1926 photo. The sign in
the distance identifies a heating contractor, George J. Zeiler, of Linden
Street in Ridgewood.
The “Liberty Park” Mobil Oil gas station is shown in this March 1926 photo
taken on Cooper Avenue, looking east from the corner of Alden Avenue
(present-day 80th Avenue). Back then, gas cost just 17 cents per gallon.
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