\[Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY] Intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY. Trolley tracks are on Metropolitan Line (# 53). Camera is facing south; Saint John's Cemetery is on the left, Bermel's Monuments and Headstones on the right.

Newtown - St. John's Hotel - Middle Village St. John's Hotel - Anton Braun's St. Johns Hotel, SW corner Metropolitan Ave. and Dry Harbor Rd. (now 80th St.). This view is looking west along Metropolitan Ave. In the 1870s and possibly earlier the Hirsch Family operated a general store and saloon here. In October 1885 Peter Hirsch put up a new hotel building on the site with a saloon on the ground floor. By 1890 Anton Braun was the proprietor and he called his establishment the St. John's Hotel, named for the cemetery nearby. It was acquired by Bermel & Co. Monument Works in 1923, and it was torn down. To left of the Hotel is McCloskey's Florist Shop.

\[Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY] Intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Dry Harbor Road, Queens, NY. Trolley tracks are on Metropolitan Line (# 53). Camera faces east towards Saint John's Cemetery. Bermel's Monuments and Headstones is on the left.

\[Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street, Queens, NY] Metropolitan Avenue and 80th Street, Queens, NY, looking east. View of street showing trolley tracks, pedestrians, automobiles, sidewalks, and street signs. There are trees and power lines lining the street.

Newtown - Columbia Park Hotel - Middle Village Columbia Park Hotel - Peter Becker's Columbia Park Hotel at the NW corner of Metropolitan Ave. and 80th St. (Formerly Dry Harbor Road), viewed from the south side of Metropolitan Ave. The Cosius Family acquired the lots on the NW corner of this intersection and built a saloon and dance hall on the site which became known as Columbia Park, they operated the facility until about 1890. It became a hotel when the Raines Law went it effect. In May, 1900 Peter Becker became the proprietor. \[Copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]

Newtown - Dry Harbor Road - Middle Village Dry Harbor Road - View of the west side of 80th St. (formerly Dry Harbor Rd., aka Weisse Ave.) looking north from a point near Cooper Ave. It was Glendale, but is now considered Middle Village. To the left is Henry Kiesel House near 68th Ave. (J. Kiesel, 1873, 1891), with greenhouses to the north. The school is P.S. 87, Queens. Photo taken April 1923

Queens 50, P.S. 87 (The Middle Village), 67-54 80th St., Middle Village; Jerry Spearman, Photographer

Newtown - Dry Harbor Road - Middle Village Dry Harbor Road - The west side of Dry Harbor Rd. (Now 80th St.), opposite the north gate of St. Johns Cemetery, between Juniper Valley Road and Metropolitan Ave. Buildings are on the site of the present 66-26 to 66-40 80 St. and all were torn down. The site is now occupied by St. Margaret's R.C. School and Church.

Newtown - Metropolitan Avenue - Middle Village Metropolitan Avenue - North side of Metropolitan Ave., looking west toward 78th St. At right is the house of Abraham Folk, Blacksmith. The twin yellow brick houses are at 75-47 & 75-49 Metropolitan Ave. On the left is the Brick Tavern (Samuel Way's Brick Tavern in 1845), which later became John Schneider's Middle Village Hotel in 1868, it was torn down 1940 and the site has been a supermarket since. Hidden to its left is the Middle Village Methodist Church. \[Original QPL print missing, copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]

Newtown - Dry Harbor Road - Middle Village Dry Harbor Road - Looking north along 80th St. (Dry Harbor Road) from New Juniper Valley Road. The land and building sites to the right or east of the road are now within the expanded St. Johns Cemetery. Rieger owned the small house on the right near Furmanville Ave. The Old Methodist Episcopal Cemetery was on the left side of the road opposite and a little north of Rieger's house. Photo taken April 1923.

Newtown - Metropolitan Avenue - Middle Village Metropolitan Avenue - view of the north side of Metropolitan Ave., looking west near 78th St. At far left is the Brick Tavern (Samuel Way's Brick Tavern in 1845), which later became John Schneider's Middle Village Hotel in 1868. The building was torn down in 1940 and in 1951 the H.C. Bohack Company acquired the site and built a supermarket on it - it now is a C-Town supermarket (75-43 Metropolitan Avenue). Brick bay window houses are 75-47 & 75-49 Metropolitan Ave. The two old buildings at right are the Abraham L. Folk House and Blacksmith Shop. Photo taken October 1923.

Newtown - J.B. Rey House - Middle Village J.B. Rey House - White shingled house on the south side of Metropolitan Ave. between 75th St. and 78th St. present site of 75-40 & 75-42 Metropolitan Ave., opposite the Middle Village Methodist Church. Owned by J.B. Rey 1873 and J. Rey in 1896. The Rey Family manufactured noodles and pasta beginning in 1859 in Middle Village. \[Original QPL print missing, copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]

Newtown - Middle Village M.E. Church - Middle Village Middle Village M.E. Church - Located on the north side of Metropolitan Ave. near 75th St. the Methodist Episcopal Church of Newtown congregation first organized in 1768. The church here was rebuilt and enlarged in 1902 after a 1901 fire. This in turn burned down in January 1926, and was rebuilt again as The United Community Methodist Church. \[Original QPL print missing, copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]

Newtown - Middle Village M.E. Church - Middle Village Middle Village M.E. Church - (aka Middle Village Methodist Church, aka The Methodist Episcopal Church of Newton) North side of Metropolitan Ave. near 75th St. First organized in 1768, the congregation moved here from Dry Harbor Road in 1836. The building in this photograph burned down in January 1926. \[Original QPL print missing, copy of print stamped "Historical Survey of Long Island - Collection of Vincent F. Seyfried."]