"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.

Public School 11, 1925. The Union Free District School No. 10 opened in 1894, sitting high on a 100-foot hill. Four years later, when Queens became a borough of the consolidated city, this wood-frame structure with its soaring belfry was one of the borough's tallest buildings. Renamed the Woodside High School in 1897, the building had two, three-story, brick wings added in 1905. Renamed Public School 11 in the early 20th century, the school served Queens' growing population. By the mid-century, the wood-frame building was no longer in use and scheduled for demolition. Before it could be razed, it was lost to a massive fire in 1951. A new, three-story, brick school was completed on the site a few years later. In 2017 a large, new extension was completed to relieve the cram of students in New York City's most crowded elementary school.