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Pictures dated c. 1900 and 2002
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Accessible by Rail

Maple Grove Cemetery became accessible to residents of Manhattan and Long Island in 1880 when the Long Island Railroad opened its Hopedale station near today's Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard.

This is the Queens Boulevard entrance to Maple Grove Cemetery, this time looking toward Jamaica.

Source:

Circa 1900 picture courtesy of R. Billard

References:

Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 8, 11 (Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts 1999)
Vincent F. Seyfried & William Asadorian, Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs, p. 165 (Dover Publ. 1991)

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