A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY


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In the Beginning
The Long Island Rail Road Station
Maple Grove Cemetery and Vicinity
Kew Cards
Homes of Kew
Lefferts Boulevard and Vicinity
Queens Boulevard and Vicinity
Metropolitan Avenue and Vicinity
Kew Garden Apartments
Kew Gardens in the News
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Pictures dated 1906 and 2001
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A pond of similar size was located in the woods at what is today the intersection of Beverly Road and Park Lane South.

Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake was a pond located west of today's Lefferts Boulevard between what is now Austin and Grenfell Streets. It was a water hazard on the Richmond Hill Golf Course. During winter time, Richmond Hill residents went there to toboggan and ice skate. The Lake was drained in 1909 to make way for the Long Island Railroad tracks and Station House. The golf course became the Kew Gardens housing development.

[To read a newspaper article about the Crystal Lake Skinny Dipping Scandal of 1908, click here.]

References:

Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 13, 15 (Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts 1999)
Carl Ballenas and Nancy Cataldi, Images of America - Richmond Hill, p. 13 (Arcadia Publ. 2002)
Vol. 3, "Historical Collections of the Borough of Queens", p. 43 (Queens Borough Public Library L.I. Collection 1938)

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