The view is from Austin Street looking toward Union Turnpike and Forest Hills. Much like the Crossroads (Newsday) Building on Kew Gardens Road at Queens Boulevard, the Park Lane North and Park Lane South Apartments in the background of the bottom picture have greatly altered the Kew Gardens skyline. Both were built astride the Long Island Railroad tracks - after local residents lost a year long court battle to stop construction. The residents were represented by a Queens attorney named Mario Cuomo, who went on to become a 3 term Governor of New York State [1983 - 95].