Sidewalks and Curbs of Queens Boulevard: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Negative documents northerly sidewalks and curbs of Queens Boulevard as part of the construction and maintenance of the IND Queens Boulevard Subway Line. Camera looking east. Also shows buildings, streetcar tracks, signage, and Gulf service station.
New York Transit MuseumNorth side of Queens Boulevard, roughly opposite present-day 62nd Avenue; December 22, 1930.
This photo was taken in advance of construction on the IND Queens Boulevard line, and also captures the early development of Rego Park, a neighborhood whose growth was driven by the extension of subway service.
In the distance, right of center is a row of recently-completed free-standing houses along Saunders Street, between 63rd Avenue and 63rd Drive. Further right is the six-story Jupiter Court Apartments complex, at the southwest corner of 63rd Avenue.
The wood-frame house in the foreground is adjacent to a Gulf gas station. The smokestacks above belong to the Citizens Water Supply Pumping Station No.1, about 200 feet east. The Department of Environmental Protection continues to operate a pumping station on roughly the same site today, but the facility now sits underground, beneath the Lost Battalion Recreation Center.
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