All About Queens, NY

What’s New In Long Island City?

adminQ — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:30:21 +0000

Another walking tour by Jack Eichenbaum, this time taking you through Long Island City.

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We’ll walk from Queensboro Plaza to the East River waterfront. Rezoning and demographic change stemming from Manhattan spillover spark revitalization in this once stagnant industrial neighborhood. A lively arts community and restaurant scene has developed. The Plaza, where transit lines intersect, has been rezoned for hotels, condos and offices. Gantry Park, on the East River, is the perfect place to view the midtown Manhattan skyline.

The tour takes place on October 22nd and goes from 11am to 1pm.

The cost of the tour is $15 and no reservations are required. If you would like to participate in this tour, please meet at lowest level of the Queensboro Plaza station (fare booth), N,#7 trains.

For more information, and other walking tours, please visit Jack Eichenbaum’s Website.

The World of the #7 Train – a Queens Tour

Jack Eichenbaum — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:16:27 +0000

This series of six walks and connecting rides along North Queens’ transportation corridor is a Jack Eichenbaum signature tour.

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We focus on what the #7 train has done to and for surrounding neighborhoods since it began service in 1914. Walks take place in Long Island City, Sunnyside, Flushing, Corona, Woodside and Jackson Heights and lunch is in Flushing’s Asiatown. Tour fee is $39 and you need to preregister by check to:

Jack Eichenbaum
36-20 Bowne St. #6C
Flushing, NY 11354
(include name, phone and email address)

The full day’s program and other info is available here.

The tour runs from 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 30th.
Tour fee: $39
The tour is limited to 25 people. Don’t get left out!

Preregistration is required.

Click here for further information and registration

The National Rifle Association First Practiced in Queens!

Jack Eichenbaum — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:27:58 +0000

This is a fascinating story which is best told as I walk a group from Flushing to Queens Village along the former right-of-way of the Central and Northside RR which connected Flushing to Garden City for a few years in the 1870′s. Garden City was founded by department store magnate Alexander Stewart who financed the railroad along with Conrad Poppenhusen of College Point.

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The NRA was formed in 1871 and looking for land. It was provided by this new railroad which had bought the Creed family farm along its route and was looking for a land use that would be good for business. The NRA, associated with the NYS militia, bought the property and helped keep the railroad alive. Eventually the NRA, not a popular neighbor, moved away. The railroad died. The land eventually became the home of Creedmoor NYS Hospital. Meanwhile, the history and right-of-way of the railroad, a diagonal slash through eastern Queens, is preserved in parks, street alignments and street names.

Look at a map of Queens and see the southeasterly trend of the Queens Botanical Garden, the Kissena Park Corridor, Kissena Park and Golf Course, Underhill and Peck Avenues in Flushing and Stewart Avenue in Hollis Hills. In Queens Village, south of Creedmoor State Hospital, note the street names Musket, Sabre and Range which remain long after the NRA left the scene.