82nd Avenue

This view is looking east from 82nd Avenue into Briarwood.  Queens Boulevard is the cross street.  Although no indication of it remains today, the Kew Gardens section of Queens Boulevard was once marshland.  Together with the small kettle ponds that dotted the landscape, it was the source of serious summertime mosquito problems for the new Kew Gardens.  It was the construction of Borough Hall (pictured bottom left) that finally rid the area of pests.  (You can write your own punchline here.)

1940 picture courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, Illustrations Collection - Kew Gardens.

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