Home About Us Email Us Find It What's New Back Next
PICTURE ALBUMS
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
PS99 Photographs and More

VIEWER MESSAGES
Read Guestbook
Post Message
Guestbook Archives
Where Are They?

MISCELLANEOUS
Special Feature
 
Books
Maps
Kew Gardens Improvement Association
Links to Other Web Sites of Interest

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

CLICK TO ENLARGE.

Pictures dated c. 1940 and 2001
Click image to enlarge
116th Street

"Major thoroughfares, railroad tracks, and preserved green space carve Kew Gardens into a series of relatively distinct districts. Between Lefferts Boulevard, the railroad tracks, Union Turnpike, Forest Park, and Metropolitan Avenue, streets with names like Abingdon, Audley, Beverly and Onslow climb in a sort of curving grid up to the heights of Forest Park at the top of the terminal moraine. The winding, tree-lined streets, seem to intersect at less-than-regular angles and then curve out of view, luring the traveler up the hill to see what lies beyond."

Sources:
  • Quote from "Inside Kew Gardens", by Michael Winkleman (METROPOLIS Oct. 1982)
  • Circa 1940 picture from the Lucy Ballenas Collection courtesy of Carl Ballenas

Back  |  Next