Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Queens (Boulevard) of the Thirties by Stephen L. Meyers - LOST Magazine

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A look at New York's Queens Boulevard in the 1930s, via its long-gone trolley tracks





Lightly populated Queens Boulevard hosted a Manhattan and Queens car in 1935. The view is near Grand Avenue in Elmhurst. The then under-construction competing Independent subway line's opening would shortly replace the streetcars and the rebuilding of Queens Boulevard to handle motor vehicular traffic would completely erase any signs of the Manhattan and Queens.