The population of the area, like much of New York City, has grown a great deal over the past 50 years. Today, just a short subway ride from Manhattan, Rego Park offers residents and visitors easy access to other areas of the city. But locals have plenty to do in the immediate area.
There's no reason you wouldn't want to move to the area. Shopping is convenient, there's plenty of entertainment in the area, and if you want to go to Manhattan, you can," says Romiel Daniel, president of the Rego Park Jewish Center, and a Rego Park resident for 13 years.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park is huge and only a few minutes away. Over the years, the population of Rego Park has increased. Today, many different people call this diverse neighborhood home. Most are from Russia, making the area a little more Orthodox Jewish, even compared to five years ago," says Daniel.
The people who are living there today are families, and of course, the elderly. The area's convenient location and public transportation options have not gone unnoticed. These strengths continue to attract a number of immigrants, native New Yorkers and transplants from other parts of the U.
The face of the neighborhood has been influenced by new construction as well, as buyers take advantage of the area's lower priced homes, co-ops and condos. Also, the area has been an alternative to Forest Hills," says Adriano Hultmann, a real estate agent with the Corcoran Group. At one time it was heavily Jewish, but now you have a lot of Indians, Russians, Hispanics and Asians. Our Savior Lutheran Church, n. Binder, Frederick M. All the Nations Under Heaven. New York: Columbia University Press, Foner, Nancy, ed.
New Immigrants in New York. Gottlieb, Jeff. New York Times, Wilkinson, Christina. Midnight Fish, 5 Mar. Above are and shots of the exterior. Soon after, Joe Abbracciamento Restaurant, which opened next door in , took over the Drake to use for catered functions. Abbracciamento also operated a restaurant on Canarsie Pier during the 80s and 90s which has since closed.
According to newspaper reports, the near-capacity crowd of mostly teenagers started complaining about the sound system by throwing beer and liquor bottles at the screen and tearing holes in it.
As they exited, they broke all the glass in the entrance doors. Police blamed the behavior on alcohol and drugs smuggled into the theatre. One person was arrested for beating up an usher. Ah, those were the days. Knuckleheads plus drugs and alcohol always means trouble! Of course there are more guns involved these days. At Woodhaven and Queens Blvds. In , it underwent a major expansion and renovation. Above photo from Macerich Company. The Elmwood Theater can be seen behind them across Queens Boulevard.
Thanks to Doug LeBlang for touching up the photo. Taft, brother of President William Howard Taft. After graduation, Slattery was assigned to the Philippines to work on bridges and roads—a typical beginning for an engineer. He remained in Vicksburg for several years and worked on the Flood of One of his contributions was the development of a project on the upper Hudson River known as the Port of Albany.
After it was completed, oceangoing vessels could travel miles inland from New York City. At the end of that year, Slattery had served 25 years and wanted to retire, but the Secretary of War would not allow it.
Slattery earned a master of arts from Ohio University. In , the area was first settled by English and Dutch farmers, including the Remsen, Furman, Springsteen and Morrell families. They found that the land was good for growing hay, straw, rye, corn, oats and various vegetables.
They constructed more than Tudor-style one-family attached and detached homes. Although the Main Line was fully functional at that time, it was later dismantled, and little can be discerned of its existence now except for the flattened clearing beside the tracks.
There were also numerous Express Buses run between the neighborhood and locations in Manhattan. A typical scene of homes in Rego Park Queens.
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