Broadway, Elmhurst. Viewed from Queens Boulevard, 1921. The building at left is the Broadway House, opened as a hotel by John Heeg in about 1890. The building was partially demolished in 1930. The conical tower at center is part of the Newtown Town Hall, first built in 1803 and expanded to include a courthouse in 1848. Later, the building also included the local police precinct. The Town Hall was demolished in 1960. Today, the Libra Triangle green space references the judicial history of the site.

Photo documenting streetcar rail and roadway condition along Queens Boulevard, west of Woodhaven Boulevard; December 8, 1930. The two-and-a-half story wood-frame home at the southeast corner of Woodhaven Boulevard was owned by Louis Bolsen, a florist.

Southeast corner of old Queens Blvd and Grand Ave, ca 1909. Jonathan Fish built in 1716 as a tavern on the site of the Ralph Hunt House. It was a Loyalist Headquarters during the American Revolution and was The Union Hotel after the war. The house was then a Presbyterian Parsonage 1817-1822, and finally a store & residence of Peter Duryea (1852), and later Joel Brown (1873). Newtown Gas Co. bought the site in 1909 for a storehouse. The house auctioned June 20, 1916, for $175 to a wrecker, and was torn down July 10, 1916.

First Presbyterian Church of Newtown, 1924. The First Presbyterian Church of Newtown is the oldest church in the borough of Queens. The congregation was established by a community of English settlers who had moved into the area in the 1650s and constructed an all-purpose thatched roof building that also served as school and town hall. In the first decades, the community was a mix of English dissidents, French Huguenots, Dutch Reformed, Church of England adherents, and others. In 1715 the church received its charter and was officially named the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown. The church was an early advocate of religious freedom in America and was the site of much strife during the American Revolution. The Presbyterian community was vehemently opposed to British rule and suffered at the hands of British soldiers, who jailed church members and used the church as a prison before demolishing it. The church building seen here was erected only four years after the end of the war. Finished in 1787, the "Old White Church" saw the community through considerable growth during the 19th century. The surrounding graveyard (which predated this structure by decades) was the final resting place of generations of community members. In 1891 a wealthy parishioner willed $70,000 for the construction of a new building. The new brownstone church was completed across Queens Boulevard in 1895. This wood-frame structure continued to be used for church functions until it was heavily damaged by a fire in 1928, and razed one year later. The cemetery remained even after the removal of the structure; the parish sold the land in 1958. At that time, some unknown number of graves were unearthed and removed to Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn. Today an apartment building occupies the lot where once the 18th-century church and cemetery stood.

MACDONALD PARK Queens Boulevard between Yellowstone Boulevard and 70th Road Monument: William Henry Deacy, 1934 Queens Boulevard was expanded gradually over many years, beginning in the early 1920s. After an expansion phase in 1931, this small park was formed. In 1933 it was named after Captain Gerald MacDonald (1882-1929), a World War I veteran and Forest Hills resident who was held in great esteem by the community. Toward the park’s eastern end is the Gerald MacDonald statue, which was designed by architect William Henry Deacy, sculpted by MacDonald’s brother-in-law, Frederic de Henwood, and unveiled in 1934.