Yesterday's Time: A Recollection of Bygone Queens Neighborhoods 

That was EXCELLENT ! I have Lived in Queens my whole life and I will Stay to the END. Thanks for that Wonderful Film. Bob Williams

My father and his brothers and sisters grew up in Springfield Gardens with my grandparents. It was 1921, they moved from Brooklyn into a small frame house on a 40 by 70 lot. Before that, there were still working farms out there before developers started building houses. Southeast Queens still had some small farms then. We lived in Arverne Rockaways from 1951 to 1957 in the NYCHA projects. I've always been fond of Queens, thanks for this film documentary.

Lives in queens forest hills my entire life. Wanted to learn the history of how all this came to be. This video is amazing I know NY is nothing of what it once was it very Nostalgic to know this was once truly the greatest place on earth!

Thank you so much. I'm always intrigued by New York, past and present.

Great documentary! I also enjoyed the voices of people who lived in those times describing the way of life. Very well done!

Oh man. Spent my childhood years in the Rockaways. What a trip back in time. Very poignant for me. Thanks for the trip

It took 13 years for RU-vid to recommend this to me. Thank you for posting. More Queens on my channel.

Wonderful memories for me and would be for my parents and grandparents--all from Queens!

Grew up in Maspeth! Good memories. Thanks.

Thank you so very much great music and photos. My Dad was cashier there for over 20 years. Many great memories for me

Hard to believe it’s the same place. Flushing meadow park today is a cesspool of crime and drugs, sad. Keep them coming.

my mother went to public school w Tony Bennet in Ditmars, Astoria

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

See, this demonstrates that it was called "Flushing Meadow Park," which indicates that it was a single meadow - just ONE meadow. Whoever changed the name to "Flushing Meadows Park" should be fired. (I do not object to the addition of "Corona" to the name, since that is the neighborhood in which it is located.)

Thank you for this! I am from Laurelton....!

That's Donald Manes the Queensboro president at frame 2:02

My paternal great grandfather came to Jamaica, Queens in 1918.

Grew up in briarwood. Still live here. They’ll have to drag me outta Queens.

Hillside and east of 173 was country before the 1950’s. I’m an MTA bus operator from queens village depot. I can’t believe what that woman said. Today it’s unrecognizable.

Thanks, Bob

No greater neighborhood than Forest Hills

Queens is the greatest brough in nyc

Come to queens where the grass is green 🌱🌾

Thanks, Phyllis

I loved it! Queens is still growing. Not all growth has been for the best. Much of it has become crowded, congested, expensive, dangerous and a third world dump.

Too bad now its just trash

the good old days.......the demographics were different then.

Flushing Queens 1969- present

1898 - 1940???

Born and Raised in Elmhurst ❤️‍🔥 🪷🐉🪽❤️‍🔥🔱🕋🔱❤️‍🔥🪽🐉🪷

FDR at the World's Fair. The New Deal helped, but it took WW2 to end the Great Depression.

the 5 boroughs and Robert Mosses was a disaster for what was a thing of beauty. when the 7 line made its way into Flushing many prominent families left and moved to up state ny. now its a concrete hell hole