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Celebrating 10 Years of the Queens Memory Project
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To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we're revisiting highlights collected from different neighborhoods as part of the Queens Memory project. We began collecting oral history interviews and photos in the summer of 2010. Later that year, a grant from the Metro Library Council launched the project as a partnership between Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY. Since then we've recorded hundreds of oral history interviews and collected photographs from Queens residents from 23 countries of origin, living in 50 neighborhoods.

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47-46 Vernon Boulevard

48th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard, facing south around 1990. Bella Via Restaurant and low rise older brick buildings line the street, a crane and a high rise residential building under construction in the distance show the development of Long Island City from abandoned factories and artist enclave to upscale housing. Photo by Frank Carrado.
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5-53 48th Avenue

Apartment Building at 5-53 48th Avenue Apartment building at 5-53 48th Avenue. A stiorefront on the first floor corner is for rent.
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