Jackson Heights / Jason D. Antos and Constantine E. Theodosiou ; foreword by council member Daniel Dromm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antos, Jason D., Author.

Theodosiou, Constantine E., Author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.)--Biography--Pictorial works.

Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.).

Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.

Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.)--History--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]

Summary:

At the turn of the 20th century, the neighborhood known as Jackson Heights was originally called Trains Meadow, a sprawling area covered by acres of farmland and rolling hills. Its only inhabitants were homesteaders who lived in their ancient wood-framed dwellings with spreads occupied by barns, horse stables, cabbage patches, and beehives. Overgrowing populations in Manhattan and Brooklyn led developers to Queens County to transform that landscape into Jackson Heights. Headed by Edward Archibald MacDougall, the ambitious Queensboro Corporation spent nearly 4 million buying properties, molding roads, and constructing buildings of great architectural merit. Jackson Heights provides an in-depth look at the history of America's first garden apartment community with the use of never-before-seen photographs culled from local archives and private collections. Images featured show the neighborhood's progression from rural farmland to the highly populated economic center it is today with memorable businesses like Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor and the cultural splendor along Thirty-seventh Avenue and Eighty-second Street.

Contents:

A neighborhood is born

Speculation and development

The Bulova Watch Company

Personalities

Community life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127).

OCLC:

883236359