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From the book: "Long Island City is pictured in the year of consolidation, 1898. People in gorgeous Victorian-era dress board horse‑drawn trolleys near the Thirty‑fourth Street ferry port at the foot of Borden Avenue. Over 50,000 people a day made this Manhattan-Queens commute."
Queens gets the Then & Now treatment as Arcadia Publishing releases their image-heavy book by Jason D. Antos, filled with contemporary and historic photographs of the borough. You'll get side-by-side shots comparing the old and the new landscapes, but the book won't hit shelves until January 19th, so here's a sneak peek at what you'll find inside.
Interesting factoid from the introduction: "Around 60,000 years ago, the territory that would become Queens and Greater Long Island was created by an enormous glacier that descended from southern Connecticut." There were even prehistoric creatures inhabiting it...and currently there are muppets living there.
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Wow at pic #4. The thought of riding the 7 through farm land is kinda mind blowing.
Pretty amazing how they built subway lines and els to areas before they were even developed back then.
Um, Jen? Those "horse-drawn trolleys" of yours seem to have trolley poles to pick up electricity from overhead lines. See those angled poles sticking out of the top?
ha ha! note the fixie rider to the right in the first picture. chances are it really was fixed, cuz that's what many of the earliest bikes were.
wow! who woulda thunk it that queens was already such a mecca for folks of such ilk (insert your favorite term for fixie riders).
Um, Spiritof76? Those "quotation marks" Jen used means she pulled the sentence out of the book. It wasn't Jen that made up the stuff about the trolley being drawn by horses.
Um, Zippy, have you noticed the "reply" link under posts? Makes threaded discussions much easier to follow.
Gothamist writers like to crack snarky. They usually don't post just a straight regurgitation of other news. I'm sure Jen could have and would have made light of the book's error if she had noticed it.
Sorry about not using the reply link!
I wonder if that cyclist stopped at red lights.
Wait -- there were no light signals. Because, pre-automobile, life was so much more pleasant.
Instead he got run over by a trolley.
Except for all the horseshit and occasional dead horse in the street.
"factoid".
derrr
Great pics... it clearly shows just how fucking disgusting Queens has become. It is a shame
I fail to see your argument.
your failure is all on you pal
Bring back the glacier.
Pic #4 is legendary among transit buffs, but to see the "now" shot of it is just sweet.
As for the elevated itself, too bad the old Public Service Commission and the IRT didn't have the foresight to make the Flushing Line four tracks instead of just three.
Here's a rendering of it from the original design.
I love the gal with the waspish-dominatrix waistline. HOT!
My comment on the Queensbridge houses and the
teen gangs of LIC( in the 1950's )has disappeared I
wonder why???
Maybe a developer of LIC luxury loft living removed me?