"52nd Street, north from Queens Boulevard to Roosevelt Ave., showing in the background the I.R.T.; B.M.T. elevated subway station, November 1, 1936." The billboards that dominate the facades of the buildings on 52nd Street advertise the monument and gravestone companies that were established in this neighborhood to service the nearby massive Calvary Cemetery and smaller Mt. Zion Cemetery. These cemeteries are the northernmost part of the Cemetery Belt of Queens and Brooklyn that runs south from LIC/Woodside through Middle Village and Glendale and veers west into Ridgewood and the edge of Bushwick.

Steinmann Gardener, 1936. Much like the proliferation of monument and gravestone businesses, Woodside also had an abundance of nurseries and florists, which also catered to the nearby cemeteries and their visitors. The outdoor displays at this shop are all wreaths meant for grave sites.

"Queens Boulevard at the N.E. corner of 58th Street (Betts Avenue). This is an old roadhouse which was demolished in 1925 as it lies directly in the center of the proposed widening of the Boulevard, 1922." During the late 1920s and early 1930s Queens Boulevard was widened (in some places to 12 lanes) in conjunction with the construction of the the IND Queens Boulevard Line (today's E,F, M, and R trains). Hundreds of buildings were razed in preparation for this street widening. In some cases, plans were made to move structures in order to preserve them, including the 1895 building for the First Presbyterian Church of Newtown.

Queens Boulevard between 59th Street and 61st Street. Big Six co-op apartment buildings, 1964. This apartment complex, called the Big Six Towers, is a cooperative apartment house that began and continues to be a Mitchell Lama program residence. This program was signed into law in 1955 and provides affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families. Built in 1963, the complex was the creation of builder I.D. Robbins and Frank Barrett, the President of the Local Typographical Union Local No. 6. The six in the name comes from the union number and not the number of buildings (there are seven). The men wished to use the Mitchell Lama tax benefits to construct affordable housing. After the building opened in August 1963, all 982 units were occupied within six months. The complex was laid out in the "tower in the park" housing style espoused by LeCorbusier. It was designed by Frederick G. Frost, who was the architect on a number of public schools in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.