Paul Graziano, Clip 1: Evolution of Flushing
Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Paul Graziano
Date: Time Period: 1825 - 2010; 2010-06-23; Interview recorded: June 23 2010
Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:01:37
Creator: Paul Graziano interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Identifier: aql:20592 graziano_paul_clip1
Description: Mr. Graziano describes how Flushing was a small town before the railroad was built. Then it became a resort town 1840-1870. People from Manhattan would travel by ferry to Long Island City, take a train to Flushing. Original farms were carved into estates. Then Flushing began to suburbanize.
Creator :
Paul Graziano interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt
Date :
Time Period: 1825 - 2010; 2010-06-23; Interview recorded: June 23 2010
Summary/Description :
Mr. Graziano describes how Flushing was a small town before the railroad was built. Then it became a resort town 1840-1870. People from Manhattan would travel by ferry to Long Island City, take a train to Flushing. Original farms were carved into estates. Then Flushing began to suburbanize.
Subject :
Real estate development; Farms; Land subdivision
Rights :
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Waldheim, Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:37
Identifier :
aql:20592 graziano_paul_clip1
Rights Notice
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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