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Farmers first settled Flushing
The town of Flushing was first incorporated Oct. 10, 1645, by the order of the governor of New Netherlands, William Kieft. Comment.
Jamaica
Queens Library archives provide window into past
It is hard to imagine Queens as anything other than a bustling urban borough, but the crowded asphalt streets were once country road-lined farmlands from Bayside to Long Island City. Comment.
Flushing
Koo caught in firestorm over WWII comfort women
City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Flushing) has been stirring up an international controversy with his plans to honor Asian women forced into prostitution by Japan during World War II. Comments (8).
QueensLine
Queens suffered thru blackout, gas shortage in 1942
Stateside, the war effort was beginning to ramp up. On May 5, 1942, the sixth minesweeper to be built in Whitestone in the past seven weeks slid into the East River. The boat was christened at the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp.’s yard at the foot of 154th Street. Comment.
Bayside
Angelina Marie Sora, 94
Angelina Marie Sora, of Carmel, N.Y., and formerly of Bayside, died April 24. She was 94. Comment.
Letters
Boro athletic club should receive commemorative plaque
As the great-grandson of Irish immigrants to Dutch Kills, who once enjoyed the spectacle and competition that was Celtic Park, I take great pride in preserving the history of the times and places in which my ancestors and their neighbors lived. Comment.
Jamaica
WW II vets visit Qns en route to Poland
For years, March of the Living has tapped Holocaust survivors for trips bringing Jewish teenagers to Poland and Israel, but the program’s latest educational mission focuses on the liberators. Comment.
History
Greater Astoria to host activities celebrating the 1800s
Steam power and corsets are making a comeback in New York City, at least for a weekend. Comment.
Letters
City must show respect for the dead at Old Towne
As the co-chairman of the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy, I am writing to you to ask for your assistance with a crucial issue facing the 19th-century cemetery. Comment.
QueensLine
Titanic failed to claim any Queens residents in 1912
The newspapers were filled with progress and development. It was a confident age, but midway through the month a jarring note burst upon the world. It has remained seared in our collective memory to this day. Comment.
Flushing
City mediates grave damage
Members of a Flushing house of worship met with a developer and the city Monday morning to answer lingering questions about how much of a historically marked cemetery was disturbed by construction crews last month. Comment.
Astoria
Titanic turns 100
As Queens commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic and the events surrounding her fateful journey, it’s customary to recount those fascinating, decades-old tales and anecdotes that are part of this never-ending story. Comment.
Middle Village
Maltese marks Triangle fire
Serphin Maltese’s roots run deep in New York City and immigration history. Comment.
Flushing
Discover an Interwoven World
Visitors to Flushing Town Hall will find they have stepped into a nomadic Turkish village. Simulated living spaces of nomadic tents complete with hand-woven Turkish carpets and home furnishings are a highlight of the exhibit “Interwoven Worlds: Exploring Domestic and Nomadic Life in Turkey,” running through April 29. Comment.
Flushing
Flushing Armenians recall genocide in home country
Keeping the story alive has always been most important, according to Dr. Dennis Papazian, national grand commander of the Armenian fraternal service Knights of Vartan and founding director of the Armenian Research Center . Comment.
Astoria
Astoria historical society remembers the Titanic
The story of the RMS Titanic is getting a closer look next week. Comment.
QueensLine
Astronaut Glenn thrown parade through boro in 1962
It was the dawn of the Space Age, and the man of the hour was Col. John Glenn. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn had piloted Friendship 7 on the first manned orbit around the Earth and landed safely despite worries that the capsule’s heat shield might not hold. Comment.
Douglaston
Douglaston cheers its new (old) streets
The people of Douglaston know their history. Even more so, they embrace it. Comment.
Sunnyside
Olympic champs’ names recalled
Where apartments and car-filled streets now stand in Sunnyside, there was once a grand stadium, Celtic Park, that produced some of the greatest Olympic champions. Comment.
QueensLine
Beat Generation writer Kerouac called Ozone Park home
Born in 1922, Jack Kerouac is considered the father of Beat Generation literature. His iconoclastic works, such as “On the Road,” “The Dharma Bums” and “Vanity of Duluoz,” were the mouthpiece of a 1950s counterculture. Comment.
I Sit and Look Out
Columnist’s friend thinks people behave irrationally
The last of the five friends who read my columns in manuscript came up with a good many gripes, following my own column about my concerns. The other four have had their say and I invite you to make your gripes known through TimesLedger Newspapers. Solutions are most welcome, too. Comment.
Jamaica
Bangladeshi man tells Jamaica about country’s birth
America’s founding fathers are often conjured from the past to bolster various political arguments, but Sunday in Jamaica a soldier from Bangladesh’s war for independence was there in the flesh, speaking about the bloody fight and how there are always two sides to history. Comments (1).
Douglaston
Old Douglaston names of streets might return
Douglaston’s street names may soon be more apropos to the neighborhood’s historic character. Comment.
Letters
Proper spelling of boro place names never conventional
The article “Queensborough Bridge accident driver sues city” (Astoria Times, Dec. 15-21) contained excellent reporting, but I wish to bring up a few points. Comments (1).
Bayside
Mandingo honored for lifetime as community crusader
Activist Mandingo Tshaka has probably earned his weight in proclamations and awards over the years, but the Bayside Historical Society, which honored him for Black History Month, thinks he is worth every ounce. Comment.
QueensLine
Slain activist Malcolm X called East Elmhurst home in ‘65
The World’s Fair was in Queens, attracting visitors from far and wide. On Feb. 3, 1965, the Star-Journal reported that the fair “made news internationally as well as locally yesterday. The city will bring the fair into court if it fails to heed the subpoena served yesterday.” Comment.
Flushing
Flushing remembers civil rights activist Rev. Mitchell
After the longtime pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Flushing died late last month, his funeral Friday served as a sombre way to start off Black History Month. He was 81. Comments (1).
QueensLine
Communist sympathizers disrupted Newtown HS in 1935
Two Yale students on the final leg of a 29,000-mile world tour land in College Point in early January 1935. They take more than 600 pictures of places and people with an aerial camera and plan to donate the images to the Geographical Society of America. Their last hop, a four-hour trip from Morehead City, N.C., was one of the most brutal. Facing a 45 mph headwind, the ice-covered plane lands in an ice-caked Flushing Bay. Comment.
Astoria
‘Flatiron of Astoria’ gets new coat of paint
A historic building in Astoria that looks like a shrunken-down version of Manhattan’s Flatiron Building recently got a face-lift in time for the holidays. Comment.
I Sit and Look Out
Civility is a forgotten and missed art in public places
This started out to be one column to be sent out into the world at anytime. It has turned into more than that and I think the comments in these columns may be something to think about in the new year. They represent my thinking and those of a group of five younger friends who see my columns on a regular basis. Comment.
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