Queens directories

Timeline and highlights

The evolution of Queens intra- and interconnectivity through transit

Bridges and tunnels

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

Neighborhoods, neighborhood microcosms – including selected ethnic enclaves

5. Bayside
   
   
   
   1. Bayside Gables
   2. Bay Terrace
   3. Bayside Hills
   4. Fort Totten
   5. Oakland Gardens
   6. Lawrence Cemetery
6. Bellerose
7. College Point
8. Douglaston–Little Neck
   
   
   
   1. Douglaston
      
      
      
      1. Douglas Bay
      2. Douglas Manor
      3. Douglaston Hill
      4. Douglaston Park
      5. Winchester Estates
      6. Douglaston Historic District
      7. Douglaston Hill Historic District
   2. Little Neck
      
      
      
      1. Pines
      2. Little Neck Hills
      3. Westmorland
9. Flushing
   
   
   
   1. Flushing Chinatown
   2. Auburndale
   3. 
      
      
      
      1. Bowne Park
   4. Chinatown
   5. Downtown Flushing
   6. Kew Gardens Hills
   7. Linden Hill
   8. 
      
      
      
      1. Koreatown
10. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
    
    
    
    1. Shea Stadium
    2. Citi Field
    6. New York Hall of Science
    7. Flushing Meadows Natatorium
    8. Corona Ash Dumps
11. Pomonok
    
    
    
    1. Electchester
    2. Queensboro Hill
12. Floral Park, Queens
13. Fresh Meadows
    
    
    
    1. Hillcrest
    2. Utopia
14. Glen Oaks
    
    
    
    1. North Shore Towers
    2. Queens County Farm Museum
15. Whitestone
    
    
    
    1. Beechhurst
    2. Clearview
    3. Malba

28. Brookville
29. Cambria Heights
30. Hollis
    
    
    
    1. Holliswood
31. Jamaica
    
    
    
    1. Jamaica Estates
    2. Jamaica Hills
    3. Rochdale Village
    4. John F. Kennedy International Airport
    5. Prospect Cemetery
32. Laurelton
33. Meadowmere
34. Queens Village
    
    
    
    1. Bellaire
    2. Hollis Hills
35. Rosedale
    
    
    
    1. Warnerville
36. St. Albans
37. South Jamaica
    
    
    
    1. Baislely Park
    2. South Jamaica Houses

43. Rockaway Peninsula
    
    
    
    1. Far Rockaway
    2. Wavecrest
    3. Bayswater
    4. Edgemere
       
       
       
       1. Edgemere Landfill
    5. Arverne
    6. Somerville
    7. Hammels
    8. Rockaway Beach
    9. Seaside
    10. Rockaway Park
    11. Belle Harbor
    12. Neponsit
    13. Breezy Point
    14. Roxbury
    15. Broad Channel

Bygone Queens communities, community names, and pieces of land

4. College Point
   
   
   
5. Flushing
   
   
   
   3. 
      
      
      
      1. Bowne Park
      2. Ingleside
      3. Flushing Park
6. Whitestone
   
   
   
   1. Beechhurst
      
      
      
      1. Trow Settlement

14. Hollis
    
    
    
    1. Holliswood
       
       
       
       1. Terrace Heights
15. Jamaica
    
    
    
    1. Springfield
16. Queens Village
    
    
    
    1. Creedmoor

18. Rockaway, Queens
    
    
    
19. Far Rockaway
    
    
    

• The Village of Creedmoor, was, essentially, an elaborate, internationally acclaimed rifle range that was, before 1872, part of a farm owned and operated by Bernardus Hendrickson Creed. In July 1872, the State of New York, on behalf of the National Rifle Association of America, for $26,250, purchased 70 acres of level land from Creed, and, on June 21, 1873, opened an outdoor firing range with assistance of the U.S. War Department, the State of New York under the auspices of the New York Army National Guard, and the City of New York. Its name was selected by newspaper man, Col. Henry G. Shaw. He initially named it Creed's Moor, a geographical reference, and the name eventually became Creedmoor Rifle Range. The Central Railroad of Long Island – on a line that ran from Long Island City to Bethpage – 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. After 1960, parts of the property – the Cornell Farmhouse or the Creedmoor Farmhouse Complex or the Jacob Adriance Farmhouse – became part of the Queens County Farm Museum.
• Mussel Island – no occupants ever – was a small and marshy piece of land at the junction of Maspeth Creek and Newtown Creek.

Selected Queens directories not found online

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• Queens 1st and 2nd Wards Only, street names old and new;.
• → Digitized 2019, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. ; UUID 60eb200-63b3-0137-0e33-6d8cb27f4437.

• Long Island City: Daily and Weekly Star – Thomas H. Todd & Co.. ;.
• Long Island City: Daily and Weekly Star – Thomas H. Todd & Co...
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