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77-20 Jamaica Avenue
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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.
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Woodhaven Library
Queens 105, Woodhaven Public Library, 85-41 Forest Parkway, Woodhaven; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
85-24 Forest Parkway
Forest Parkway, Woodhaven, N. Y.
Public School 97
Queens 106, P.S. 97 (The Forest Park), 85-52 85th St; Jerry Spearman, Photographer
80-01 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 80th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 80th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts including a drugstore, automobiles, and apartment and private houses.
80-01 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 80th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 80th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts including a drugstore, automobiles, and BMT Jamaica Elevated line above roadway.
79-19 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 80th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 80th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts including a restaurant, automobiles, and the BMT Jamaica Elevated Line above roadway.
86-47 79th Street
Sidewalk Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 79th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 79th Street, sidewalk, street, storefront, automobiles, and apartment and private houses.
79-01 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 79th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 79th Street, sidewalk, street, storefront, automobiles, and apartment and private houses.
79-01 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 79th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 79th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts, automobiles, and the BMT Jamaica Elevated Line above roadway.
78-19 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 79th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 79th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts, automobiles, and the BMT Jamaica Elevated Line above roadway.
85-19 Jamaica Avenue
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 86th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 86th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts, automobiles, pedestrians, and BMT Jamaica Elevated line above roadway.
86-29 86th Street
Sidewalk and Elevated Line Conditions At Jamaica Avenue and 86th Street: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows corner of 86th Street, sidewalk, street, storefronts, automobiles, and column J-1082-B of the BMT Jamaica Elevated line.
86-31 Jamaica Avenue
Surveying of Sidewalk Conditions At Jamaica Avenue: Jamaica Line (BMT) One in a series of negatives documenting sidewalk and elevated line conditions along Jamaica Avenue between 78th and 86th Streets. Image shows sidewalk, street, Hallmark Cards storefront, automobiles, and apartment houses.
Lott Farmhouse
Queens: Jamaica Avenue - 77th Street Jamaica Ave., north side, between 77th and 78th Streets, showing the Old Lott farmhouse. Stephen Lott came from Pennsylvania and settled at Woodhaven. His son Hendrick was born in 1761 in this farmhouse. Other Lotts born here were Stephen N, in 1820; and his son Charles Vanderveer, in 1846. Daniel W. Ketcham and Nicholas M. Pette, sons-in-law of the late Charles Vanderveer Lott occupied it after 1891. Dickel Bros., builders, purchased and demolished it in December 1922. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.
77-20 Jamaica Avenue
Theodore Snedeker House Theodore Snedeker House. Also known as the Vanderveer House. Torn down in 1924. hand written on back of print: Theodore Snedeker House same as no 9 s w cor Jamaica + 78 St Jamaica 1922
87-19 Jamaica Avenue
Renovation of Jamaica Elevated Line Structure: Jamaica Line (BMT) Negative documenting renovation work on the BMT Jamaica Line at Jamaica Avenue and 88th Street, under Contract Agree R.H. Image shows view underneath elevated line with tarps hanging under the elevated line for structure repainting. Also shows view of street, sidewalks, pedestrians, and storefronts along Jamaica Avenue.
87-19 Jamaica Avenue
Renovation of Jamaica Elevated Line Structure: Jamaica Line (BMT) Negative documenting renovation work on the BMT Jamaica Line at Jamaica Avenue and 88th Street, under Contract Agree R.H. Image shows view underneath elevated line with tarps hanging under the elevated line for structure repainting. Also shows view of street, sidewalks, pedestrians, and storefronts along Jamaica Avenue.
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