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Queens Directories were – before, the 30% of the western part of the old Queens County was absorbed into New York City in 1898 – an assortment of (i) village directories, (i) Queens County directories, and (iii) Long Island Directories. Nassau County, before 1898, covered the eastern 70% of the old Queens County. The older, larger Queens County was mostly agricultural, and within it were several towns, villages, and hamlets. A hamlet is a legal designation, specific to New York. The Industrial Revolution in old Queens County ... ? Cemeteries constituted one of the larger industries in Queens, Kings (Brooklyn), and Westchester Counties.

Timeline and highlights


To understand the directories, before and after 1898, one needs to understand the communities and their connectivity with one another.

The evolution of Queens innerconnectivity through transit
The evolution of Queens innerconnectivity, and its consolidation with New York City, through transit ...

Maps

 * see link for references to more maps

State directories that include Queens

 * Pratt in Doggett's 1845 directory: Pratt & Co., daguerreotypes, 293 Broadway

Neighborhoods, neighborhood microcosms, including ethnic enclaves
Because neighborhoods are unincorporated communities, the boundaries and gradations of recognizability vary.

  Astoria  Astoria Heights  Ditmars  Steinway  Little Egypt  Norwood Gardens  Ravenswood <li> Jackson Heights</li> <li> Jackson Heights Historic District</li> <li> Jackson Heights Business District</li></ol> <li> Long Island City <li> Blissville</li> <li> Hunters Point</li> <li> MoMA PS1</li> <li> Gantry Plaza State Park</li></ol> <li> Dutch Kills</li> <li> Queensbridge</li> <li> Queensview</li> <li> Queens West</li> <li> Hunter's Point South</li></ol> <li> Queens Plaza</li> <li> Queens Plaza Park</li></ol></ol> <li> Sunnyside <li> Sunnyside Gardens</li> <li> Phipps Gardens</li></ol> <li> Sunnyside Yard</li></ol></ol>  <li> Bayside <li> Bayside Gables</li> <li> Bay Terrace</li> <li> Bayside Hills</li> <li> Fort Totten</li> <li> Oakland Gardens</li> <li> Lawrence Cemetery</li></ol> <li> Bellerose</li> <li> College Point</li> <li> Douglaston–Little Neck</li> <li> Douglaston</li> <li> Douglas Bay</li> <li> Douglas Manor</li> <li> Douglaston Hill</li> <li> Douglaston Park</li> <li> Winchester Estates</li> <li> Douglaston Historic District</li> <li> Douglaston Hill Historic District</li></ol> <li> Little Neck</li> <li> Pines</li> <li> Little Neck Hills</li> <li> Westmorland</li></ol></ol> <li> Flushing <li> Flushing Chinatown</li> <li> Auburndale</li> <li> </li> <li> Bowne Park</li></ol> <li> Chinatown</li> <li> Downtown Flushing</li> <li> Kew Gardens Hills</li> <li> Linden Hill</li> <li> <li> Koreatown</li> <li>Kissena Corridor Park (on the south border of Murray Hill)</li></ol> <li> </li></ol> <li> Flushing Meadows–Corona Park</li> <li> Shea Stadium</li> <li> Citi Field</li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> New York Hall of Science</li> <li> Flushing Meadows Natatorium</li> <li> Corona Ash Dumps (1920s)</ol> <li> Pomonok</li> <li> Electchester</li> <li> Queensboro Hill</li></ol> <li> Floral Park, Queens</li> <li> Queens County Farm Museum</li></ol> <li> Fresh Meadows</li> <li> Hillcrest</li> <li> Utopia</li></ol> <li> Glen Oaks</li> <li> North Shore Towers</li></ol> <li> Whitestone</li> <li> Beechhurst</li> <li> Clearview</li> <li> Malba</li></ol></ol>

 <li> Briarwood</li> <li> Corona</li> <li> LeFrak City<li> <li> North Corona</li> <li> Willets Point</li></ol> <li> East Elmhurst</li> <li> Lent Homestead and Cemetery</li> <li> LaGuardia Airport</li></ol> <li> Elmhurst</li> <li> Chinese enclave</li> <li> Elmhurst Park</li></ol> <li> Forest Hills</li> <li> </li> <li> West Side Tennis Club</li></ol> <li> Forest Hills Co-op</li></ol> <li> Glendale</li> <li> Kew Gardens</li> <li> Kew Bolmer</li></ol> <li> Maspeth</li> <li> Mount Olivet Cemetery</li></ol> <li> Middle Village</li> <li> Juniper Park </li> <li> Juniper Valley Park</li></ol> <li>Remsen Cemetery</li></ol> <li> Rego Park</li> <li> Ridgewood</li> <li> Wyckoff Heights</li> <li> Fresh Pond</li> <li> Fresh Pond–Traffic Historic District</li></ol> <li> Woodside</li> <li> Little Manila</li> <li> Boulevard Gardens</li> <li> Moore-Jackson Cemetery</li></ol></ol>  <li> Brookville (aka Springfield Gardens)</li> <li> Cambria Heights</li> <li> Hollis</li> <li> Holliswood</li></ol> <li> Jamaica <li> Jamiaca Estates</li> <li> Jamaica Hills</li> <li> Rochdale Village</li> <li> John F. Kennedy International Airport</li> <li> Prospect Cemetery</li></ol> <li> Laurelton</li> <li> Meadowmere</li> <li> Queens Village</li> <li> Bellaire</li> <li> Hollis Hills</li></ol> <li> Rosedale</li> <li> Warnerville</li></ol> <li> St. Albans</li> <li> South Jamaica</li> <li> Baislely Park</li> <li> South Jamaica Houses</li></ol></ol>

 <li> The Hole</li> <li> Howard Beach <li> Hamilton Beach</li> <li> Howard Park</li> <li> Lindenwood</li> <li> Old Howard Beach</li> <li> Ramblersville</li> <li> Rockwood Park</li> <li> Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (south of Howard Beach)</li></ol> <li> Ozone Park</li> <li> Centreville</li> <li> South Ozone Park</li> <li> Aqueduct Racetrack</li></ol> <li> Tudor Village</li></ol> <li> Richmond Hill</li> <li> Little Pubjab</li></ol> <li> Woodhaven</li></ol>

 <li> Rockaway Peninsula</li> <li> Far Rockaway</li> <li> Wavecrest</li> <li> Bayswater</li> <li> Edgemere</li> <li> Edgemere Landfill</ol> <li> Arverne</li> <li> Somerville</li> <li> Hammels <li> Rockaway Beach</li> <li> Seaside</li> <li> Rockaway Park</li> <li> Belle Harbor</li> <li> Neponsit</li> <li> Breezy Point</li> <li> Roxbury</li> <li> Broad Channel (adjacent to the Rockaways)</ol></ol>

Bygone Queens communities, community names, and pieces of land
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<li> Jackson Heights</li> <li> </li></ol> <li> Long Island City</li> <li> Arleigh Gardens </li> <li> Norwood Gardens </li> <li> </li></ol></ol>

 <li> College Point</li> <li>Tew's Neck </li> <li>Lawrence's Neck </li> <li>Flammersburg </li> <li>Strattonport </li></ol> <li> Flushing</li> <li> Waldheim </li> <li> Hinsdale </li></ol> <li> </li> <li> Bowne Park </li> <li> Murray Hill</li> <li> Ingleside <li> <li> Flushing Park <li></ol> <li> Whitestone</li> <li> Beechhurst</li> <li> Trow Settlement </li></ol></ol></ol>

 <li> Elmhurst</li> <li> Middelburgh (1652–1664)</li> <li> New Towne (1665–1896)</li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </li> <li> </ol>

<li> West Maspeth</li> <li> Melvina (hamlet)</li></ol>

<li> Laurel Hill / West Maspeth</li> <li> Berlinville (established 1870s)</li></ol>

<li> Woodside</li> <li> Winfield </li></ol>

<li> Ridgewood</li> <li> Linden Hill </li></ol>

<li> Middle Village</li> <li> Whitepot </li></ol></ol>

 <li> Holliswood</li> <li> Terrace Heights </li></ol>

<li> Queens Village</li> <li> Creedmoor </li></ol></ol>

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 <li> Rockaway, Queens</li> <li> </li></ol> <li> Far Rockaway</li> <li> </li></ol></ol>

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 * Village of Creedmoor (now part of Queens Village → see Creedmoor Psychiatric Center) – In July 1872, the National Rifle Association (NRA), for $26,250, purchased 70 acres, and, on June 21, 1873, opened an outdoor firing range. The name was selected by newspaper man, Col. Henry G. Shaw ( Henry Glenville Shaw; 1843–1907). He initially named it Creed's Moor, then eventually Creedmoor Rifle Range. The 70 acres was a portion of what once had been B.W. Creed's farm.


 * The Village of Creedmoor was named for the Creeds, a family that previously farmed the site. The local Central Railroad of Long Island station – on a line that ran from Long Island City to Bethpage – took the name Creedmoor, apparently from the phrase "Creed's Moor," describing the local geography. In the early 1870s, New York State purchased land from the Creeds for use by the New York Army National Guard and by the NRA as a firing range. The Creedmoor Rifle Range hosted prestigious international shooting competitions, which became the forerunner of the Palma trophy competition. In 1892, as a result of declining public interest and mounting noise complaints from the growing neighborhood, the NRA deeded its land back to the state. In 1912, the property became the Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital, which eventually became the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. After 1960, parts of the property – the Cornell Farmhouse or the Creedmoor Farmhouse Complex or the Jacob Adriance Farmhouse – became part of the Queens County Farm Museum.


 * Mussel Island, no occupants, ever, was a small and marshy piece of land at the junction of Maspeth Creek and Newtown Creek. (Google Map aerial view the location of the former Mussel Island, at the confluence of Newtown and Maspeth Creeks)

Garden cities

 * Sunnyside Gardens Historic District
 * Jackson Heights
 * Forest Hills Gardens

References for bygone communities and former names of communities

 * re: Creedmoor → ; ISBN 978-0-8166-6994-3 (hardback); ISBN 978-0-8166-6993-6 (paperback);.

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References for bygone Queens communities




Selected Queens directories not found online

 * see LDS Queens County
 * LDS Kings County
 * Library of Congress
 * Queens Public Library
 * New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Astoria directories

 * 1864-1871	5 city directories on one reel. [FHC 1930448]

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Polk's

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Robinson

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 * Queensborough Library has 1888 and Brooklyn Public has 1886.

Wikimedia Commons

 * Old maps of Queens
 * Maps of Queens
 * Beers maps of Long Island (1873)
 * Bromley maps of Queens (1909)
 * Travel maps of Queens
 * Neighborhoods in Queens, New York City

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