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!
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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.)
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.
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.
Absolute facts! And I'd even go as far & say it's not just Queens, all of NYC is trash now. I mean, just look at our skyrocketing crime rate. I love my city (lifelong NY'er from Queens) but I have to keep it honest quality of life has decreased here big time.
Actually the new deal was a massive failure that only prolonged the depression . what got the us going was that after ww2 we were only manufacturing country intact . everyone had to come to us for everything
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