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Brief History Of Laurelton Queens

By D Lucas Real Estate Team

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Laurelton is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is now largely a middle class neighborhood. In the 1930s through 1970s and beyond, the neighborhood was populated by many Jewish Americans, but succeeding generations have been made up of people of diverse backgrounds. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13. Laurelton is part of the former town of Jamaica. It is better known today as part of the larger community of Jamaica, Queens. Merrick Boulevard, which bisects the community in a generally east-west direction, forms its commercial spine.

Laurelton was modeled after an English village, with stately Tudor-style homes, both attached and detached. There are co-ops in converted garden apartment complexes and some new construction with more modern designs, but no high-rise buildings, which has enabled Laurelton to keep its small town feel. The area of Laurelton closest to Rosedale and Cambria Heights is mostly made up of single-family homes. The area abutting Springfield Gardens contains many two-family homes. The area south of Merrick Boulevard contains many large, individually designed houses while many of the blocks to the north, running westward from Francis Lewis Boulevard, have attached, Tudor-style rowhouses. The eastern part of Laurelton contains a series of streets with planted center malls.[2]

The area derives its name from the Laurelton station on the Long Island Rail Road, which was named for the laurels that grew there over 100 years ago. The station is located at 225th Street and 141st Road and offers service to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan by both the Far Rockaway and Long Beach branches. The ZIP code of Laurelton is 11413 And Nestled In The Heart of it Is D.Lucas Realty.

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Public schools:

Rosedale’s public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education.

Public elementary, intermediate (Junior High) And High schools in Laurelton include:

  • APublic School 156 Laurelton 
  • Linden Seventh Day School 
  • Martin De Porres School 
  • I.S. 231 Magnetech 2000 
  • The Gordon Parks School 
  • P.S. 132 Ralph Bunche 
  • Springfield Gardens H.S.

Private school education:

  • Cariculum Academy Preschool of Southeast Queens A Community Schoolhouse

 

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Brief History Of St. Albans Queens

By D Lucas Real Estate Team

St. Albans is a middle class community in the New York City borough of Queens around the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard, about two miles north of JFK Airport. It is southeast of Jamaica, west of Cambria Heights and north of Springfield Gardens and Laurelton.[2] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 12,[3][4] and is served by the St. Albans Post Office, ZIP Code 11412. 

Part of a land grant to Dutch settlers from New Netherland Governor Peter Stuyvesant in 1655, the area, like much of Queens, remained farmland and forest for most of the next two centuries.

By the 1800s, the plantations of four families — the Remsens, Everitts, Ludlums and Hendricksons — formed the nucleus of this sprawling farm community in the eastern portion of Jamaica Township. In 1814, when the Village of Jamaica (the first village on Long Island) was incorporated, its (the village’s) boundaries extended eastward to Freeman’s Path (now Farmers Boulevard), and south to Lazy Lane (called Central Avenue in 1900, then Foch Boulevard in the 1920s,[5][6][7] and now Linden Boulevard), thus including parts of present-day St. Albans.[8] In 1852, the old mill pond that is now at the center of Baisley Pond Park was acquired by the Brooklyn waterworks for use as a reservoir.[9]

In 1872, the Long Island Rail Road Cedarhurst Cut-off was built through the area, but no stop appears on the first timetables. In 1892, an area called Francis Farm was surveyed and developed for housing. There were numerous Francis families farming in the eastern portion of the Town of Jamaica in the 1880s.[10] Francis Lewis Boulevard (named for a signer of the Declaration of Independence, from Queens), which does not yet appear on maps from 1909,[11] nor in 1910,[12] is now the eastern boundary of St. Albans.

Soon, the first street lights illuminated the crossroads that is now Linden Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard. New shops clustered around August Everitt’s lone store. By July 1, 1898, a railroad station opened where the tracks crossed Locust Avenue (now Baisley Boulevard).[13][14] The station was razed and replaced with grade elimination October 15, 1935. Today, the St. Albans station provides Long Island Rail Road service to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan or Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, with transfers available at Jamaica station.

In 1899, a year after Queens became part of New York City (and with the Town of Jamaica and the Village of Jamaica thereby dissolved), the new post office for the 600 residents[15] was named St. Albans, after St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, which itself was named after a Saint Alban, thought to be the first Christian martyred in England. The name had been in use for the area since at least 1894 for the name of the school district,[16] and the LIRR station was named St. Albans when it opened in 1898. A 1909 map also shows a St Albans Avenue and a St Albans Place in the area.[11][17]

The St. Albans Golf Course, built in 1915, brought rich and famous golfers, including baseball star Babe Ruth. The Depression forced the golf course owners to try to sell, but plans for private development fell through. The land was seized by the federal government in 1942,[18] and construction soon began on the St. Albans Naval Hospital, which opened in 1943.[19] After construction was completed in 1950,[20]the hospital had 3000 beds and contained a network of 76 wards. The hospital was turned over to the Veterans Administration in 1974 and more recently evolved into the Veterans Administration St. Albans Primary and Extended Care Facility.

Many famous jazz musicians used to live in St. Albans, particularly in some of the large houses in the small western enclave known as Addisleigh Park. The soul musician James Brown lived in St. Albans very near to the Veterans Administration facility, And Once Had The House Painted All Black. As a neighborhood adjacent to Hollis, St. Albans was one of the birthplaces of the “Hip Hop” and Rap music genres in the 1970s and 1980s.

St. Albans housing consists mostly of detached, one and two-family homes. Linden Boulevard is the major shopping street.

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Schools

Public schools are operated by the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE).

Public

  • I.S. 59 Springfield Gardens Junior High School
  • P.S. 36 St. Albans School
  • P.S. 15 Jackie Robinson School
  • P.S. 136 Roy Wilkins School
  • P.S. 233 Langston Hughes School
  • Pathways College Preparatory School
Charter
  • Riverton Street Charter School St. Albans

Private

  • St. Albans Christian Academy
  • True Deliverance Christian School
  • St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic School (opened 1929, closed 2009,now site of Riverton Street Charter School)

 

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Where Do You Want To Live in Queens?

By D Lucas Real Estate Team

Holiday Dinner in Queens New York

Holiday Dinner in Queens New York

Seems every holiday season invites the subject of real estate among loved ones, in a manner of speaking.

Now it doesn’t come up the way you think, where you’ll overhear 2 brokers tucked in a corner of the room talking shop at the office Christmas party.

Rather, it occurs when you realize you don’t have enough seats for everyone at the dining room table and your forced to ask your 19 year old to sit at the little kids table so uncle Tommy can sit next to aunt Pam.

Moments like these remind you how small your place is and why it may be time to start thinking about getting a bigger place to live in Queens.

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Filed Under: Real Estate Tagged With: Queens New York Homes

21st Century Home Buyers and Renters in Queens NYC

By D Lucas Real Estate Team

Where Home Buyers Start their Search in Queens

Where Home Buyers Start their Search in Queens

Back in the bad old days of real estate, you didn’t have a choice.

You only had one way you could search through homes for sale and apartments for rent in the Queens NYC neighborhood you wanted to live in.

And that was to make an appointment with a local real estate broker’s office to flip through pages of the Multiple Listing Service book.

Flash forward to 2012 and you can see the incredible changes the Internet forced old businesses, like real estate, to make for 21st century home buyers.

All those changes have given you the power to search and compare properties available in neighborhoods you want to live in without limitation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Real Estate Tagged With: Apartment Renters, Home Buyers, Queens NYC

Queens Real Estate Has a New Home

By D Lucas Real Estate Team

New Website For Queens New York Real Estate
New Website For Queens New York Real Estate
www.dlucasrealty.com

Welcome to dlucasrealty.com, the new home on the Internet for Queens New York Real Estate.

We wanted to bring a better real estate experience to consumers starting their search online for their new home.

With 88% of new home buyers beginning their search online, we wanted to promote the value in owning a home in each of the Queens neighborhoods we serve in a better way.

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