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  Pictures dated c. 1900 and 2001
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Forest Park
"[In 1894] Park Commissioner Squier of Brooklyn . . . purchased the land which is now Forest Park and shut off North Richmond Hill, which is now Forest Hills and Kew Gardens from the 'back-wash' of the city which he knew would spread out to the east. Forest Park protects these two communities now and makes their exclusive restriction to residential sections possible."
Sources:
- Quote from The Queens Evening News [a local newspaper], March 28, 1930
- Circa 1900 picture from the Lucy Ballenas Collection courtesy of Carl Ballenas
References:
- Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 11, 13, 16, 21 - 22 (Kew Gardens Council on Recreation and the Arts 1999)
- Carl Ballenas and Nancy Cataldi, Images of America - Richmond Hill, p. 89 (Arcadia Publ. 2002)