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  Pictures dated 1940 and 2001
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"Ponte Vecchio"
In Forest Hills, the town is at ground level, and the Long Island Railroad tracks are on an overhead trestle. In Kew Gardens, the tracks are at ground level while the center of town is on overhead bridges - our own "Ponte Vecchio" (meaning "Old Bridge").
[T]he stores' principal bridges actually run through the "roofs" ... not under their floors. The storefronts are then "hung" from the bridges like a curtain hanging from a rod.
Sources:
- Quote from Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 18, 55 (Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts 1999)
- Circa 1940 picture from the Lucy Ballenas Collection courtesy of Carl Ballenas