Midtown Service Garage

Collection: This image is from the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection

Date: June 7, 1938; 1938-06-07 Material: gelatin silver print Dimension: 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: Public Service Commission Identifier: aql:4095 psc-000084 psc-000084.tif

Description: This view encompasses the entire facade of the brick building, which stood on what was once part of a colonial-era roadway known as Trains Meadow Road. The small segment of this roadway that survives today is known as 35th Road. Note fuel truck and water tower at right. Signs on the building advertise "Independent Chevrolet Service, "Exide batteries, and Socony motor oil, among other things. See record psc-000085 for a rear view, and record psc-000086 for an interior view of this building (Damage Parcel 405), which was also known as the Jackson Heights Garage.

Title : Midtown Service Garage

Collection : aql:3877; vital:1

Creator : Public Service Commission

Date : June 7, 1938; 1938-06-07

Summary/Description : This view encompasses the entire facade of the brick building, which stood on what was once part of a colonial-era roadway known as Trains Meadow Road. The small segment of this roadway that survives today is known as 35th Road. Note fuel truck and water tower at right. Signs on the building advertise "Independent Chevrolet Service, "Exide batteries, and Socony motor oil, among other things. See record psc-000085 for a rear view, and record psc-000086 for an interior view of this building (Damage Parcel 405), which was also known as the Jackson Heights Garage.

Subject : Automobile repair shops; Service stations; Water towers

Relation : This image is from the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Public Service Commission Photographs Collection

Rights : Copyrighted: The City of New York

Coverage : 69-01 36th Avenue (now 35th Road), Jackson Heights, NY Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver print; 8 x 10 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:4095 psc-000084 psc-000084.tif