Timeline of Queens

The following is a timeline of the history of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, USA.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Prior to 20th century

  • 1657 - Flushing Remonstrance
  • 1683 - Queens County created.[1]
  • 1790 - Population: 16,014.[2]
  • 1821 - Horse racing track opens.[3]
  • 1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place in Corona at the old Fashion Race Course.[4]
  • 1860 - Population: 57,391.[2]
  • 1870 - Population: 73,803.[2]
  • 1880 - Population: 90,574.[2]
  • 1889 - BMT Myrtle Avenue Line begins operating.
  • 1890 - Population: 128,059.[2]
  • 1898 - January 1: Queens is established as a borough in the City of Greater New York. The borough consists of only part of the previous boundaries of Queens County; Nassau County is established in the remaining part [5]

20th century

1900s-1940s

1950s-1990s

21st century

See also

other NYC boroughs

References

  1. ↑ Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "New York: Individual County Chronologies". Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Richard L. Forstall, ed. (1996). Populations of States & Counties of the U. S. (1790-1990). US Census Bureau. ISBN 978-0-7881-3330-5.
  3. ↑ Laurence Urdang, ed. (1996). Timetables of American History. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-7432-0261-9.
  4. ↑ The 1858 Fashion Race Course Baseball Match, Baseball Almanac, http://www.baseball-almanac.com/treasure/autont2006b.shtml Accessed August 5, 2013
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  6. ↑ American Association for State and Local History (2002). "New York". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
  7. 1 2 3 Walk Through Queens 2004.
  8. 1 2 Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Queens, New York". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Movie Theaters in Flushing, New York". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ "United States: New York State". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
  11. ↑ Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
  12. ↑ "IND Division Timeline". Nycsubway.org. David Pirmann. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Movie Theaters in Long Island City, New York". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Movie Theaters in Astoria, New York". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  15. ↑ Kroessler 2002.
  16. ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  17. 1 2 "Attractions". It's In Queens. Queens Economic Development Corporation. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  18. ↑ "USA: New York: New York City: Queens". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  19. ↑ "New York". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2003.
  20. ↑ Air Disasters Timeline, BBC News, November 1, 2015
  21. ↑ "Newtown Historical Society". Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Queens County (Queens Borough), New York". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
  23. ↑ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved January 30, 2016.

Bibliography

published in the 19th century
  • Franklin B. Hough (1872), "Queens County", Gazetteer of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y: Andrew Boyd, OCLC 18450990 – via Internet Archive
  • History of Queens County, New York. Munsell. 1882.
  • Trow's Business Directory of the Borough of Queens. NY: Trow. 1899. + Register
published in the 20th century
  • Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Queens". New York City Guide. American Guide Series. New York: Random House – via HathiTrust.
  • Mary A. Glascock. An Annotated Bibliography of the History of Queens County, New York (Queens College, 1977) 218 pages
  • Janet E. Lieberman and Richard K. Lieberman. City Limits: A Social History of Queens (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983)
  • Vincent F. Seyfried; William Asadorian (1991). Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs. Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-26358-8.
published in the 21st century
  • Jeffrey A. Kroessler (2002), New York Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis, New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-4751-5
  • "Resources". A Walk Through Queens. Daniel Greenberg, producer. Educational Broadcasting Corporation. 2004. (includes "History" section)
  • Claudia Gryvatz Copquin (2007). The Neighborhoods of Queens. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-11299-8.
  • Brendan McGovern and John W. Frazier (2015). "Evolving Ethnic Settlements in Queens: Historical and Current Forces Reshaping Human Geography". Focus on Geography (58).
  • "Timeline of Queens History". Queens Historical Society.
  • "Queens Timeline". Greater Astoria Historical Society.
  • "Archives at Queens Library". NY: Queens Library.
  • Walter Greenspan. "Geographic History of Queens County" – via RootsWeb.com. (timeline)
  • "Best of the Web: New York City History: Queens". New York Public Library.
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