78th Street, west side, north from Eighty-eight Avenue, showing at the corner "The Abbey". In 1922 it was known as Neir's Social Hall, 1922." Neir's Tavern, which still serves drinks to the local neighborhood crowd, was originally established in 1829 as the Old Blue Pump House. Over the last nearly 200 years the building itself has been altered, with extensions and additions (the area over the entrance has been added on to make a full second floor since this 1922 photo was taken). The business of the building has always been a bar and/or restaurant (other iterations were called the Old Abbey and the Union Course Tavern), so it has been called by some the "oldest bar in NYC," older even than McSorley's. Others would argue that since Woodhaven (or Woodville as it was called in 1829) was not a part of NYC until 1898, that knocks it out of consideration. It was named Neir's by proprietor Louis Neir in 1898 and has a number of (at least local) claims to fame, including as a singing venue for Mae West and as a shooting location for the film Good Fellas. The interior of the bar retains many original features including pressed-tin walls and ceiling, and a large mahogany bar.

The intersection of the Jamaica Plank Road (now Jamaica Avenue) and Eldert’s Lane was once the location of two popular roadhouses, They were busy spots owing to their proximity to the Union Course, a well-known racetrack, and their place on the major thoroughfare that passed through Queens and into the Village of Brooklyn. This is the story of Shaw's Hotel.

This house (once belonging to the local Snedeker and Vanderveer families) sat on the south side of Jamaica Avenue between 77th and 78th Streets. According to the photograph's metadata, the home was razed in 1924. In 1933, Fred Trump (father to Donald) built Queens' first supermarket on this plot. The Woodhaven-born Fred Trump begun building houses two years out of high school in 1925 and spent the second half of the 1920s developing homes in southern Queens. After the homebuilding market dried up with the Depression, Trump moved briefly into the food market. Six months after opening the 'Trump Market" he sold it to the King Kullen chain. (Supposedly, when they took the Trump sign off the market, the senior Trump vowed never to put his name on a building again. That did not last, as the giant Coney Island development of the 1960s was given his moniker, and his progeny has followed suit, only more consistently and garishly.) Today, a supermarket still stands on the site, as does a historical marker about Fred Trump's venture.

Shaw's Hotel, ca. 1905. This intersection of the Jamaica Plank Road (now Jamaica Avenue) and Eldert’s Lane was once the location of two popular roadhouses, owned by two brothers, John and Jerome Snediker. John's opened in 1812, while Jerome established his in the 1830s. They were popular spots, owing to their proximity to the Union Course, a well-known racetrack, and their location on the major thoroughfare that passed through Queens and into the Village of Brooklyn. Jerome's business, on the southeast corner of the intersection, burned down in the mid 1830s and was replaced in 1838 by this Dutch Colonial structure. Known as Shaw's Hotel, it was a neighborhood fixture for five decades. In fact, in 1860 the hotel was the venue for a coroner’s inquest into a sensational local murder. The building was empty and abandoned by the early years of the 20th century. In 1905 for some unknown reason, the structure was cut in half and the two pieces were moved to two corners (one at Danforth and Crescent, and the other half down at the end of the same block, on the corner of Danforth and Hemlock). The half at Crescent burned down in 1957, but the house at 28 Danforth Street remains standing today.