Sunnyside Gardens

Sunnyside Gardens in Queens got a step closer to being landmarked yesterday after a recommendation by a City Council committee yesterday. The subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses, chaired by Council Member Jessica Lappin, today...

It's too late for the 19th-century parsonage at St. Saviour's Episcopal Church -- it was leveled in December -- and Long Island City's Hackett Building, a Flatiron-like structure that was built in 1884, was torn down last year to make room for condos....

The City Council voted unanimously to make Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, one of the first planned communities in the country, a landmarked historic district. The 17-block neighborhood of modest brick row houses was constructed in the 1920s as a "garden...

A bid to landmark Sunnyside Gardens is bitterly dividing the historic Queens community, once envisioned as a utopian oasis of green spaces and neighborly cooperation. Built as a planned development in the 1920s, the 17-block stretch of modest brick row...

Jerry Torre graduated from Sachem High School in 1974 and found a summer job as a gardener at an East Hampton mansion. The owner, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, set up Torre in a room above the garage and put him to work. One afternoon, the...

While the seed of gentrification has sprouted throughout Queens – in neighborhoods such as Long Island City and Astoria -- Sunnyside remains relatively unsown. "The area hasn't changed much in over 70 years," said Gerald Lederman, who was born in...

For one brief moment in history -- 1870 to 1898 -- Long Island City was a city. It had its own mayor, a territory one-third the size of Manhattan, an East River port, industries, parks and cemeteries. When New York City consolidated in 1898, Long Island...

Twelve years ago Nancy Mastopietro returned to live in the house where she was born in 1928, in a Queens community that has stayed pretty much the way it was 70 years ago. Mastopietro lives in Sunnyside Gardens, one of Long Island's earliest Utopian...

Here are the Queens sites and structures -- some included in districts and some listed individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Those with asterisks are museums, details of which may be found on the museum list in this section....

The pastoral scene at right is, surprisingly, part of the Sunnyside community in 1913. Only one building can be seen on Queens Boulevard, looking north onto Greenpoint Avenue. The building was called J.W. Burrows Central Hotel in 1872, but its use in 1913...