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1. loc.getarchive.net › topics › jackson+heights88 Jackson heights, New york Images: LOC's Public Domain ...

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   Download Images of Jackson heights, New york - Free for commercial use, no attribution required. From: Field's department store, business at 37th Ave. and 82nd St., Jackson Heights, New York. View to blouses, to First Church of Christ Scientist, 8601 35th Ave., Jackson Heights. Rotunda I. Find Jackson heights, New york images dated from 1922 to 1956.

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3. www.bbc.com › travel › articleJackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New York - BBC

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   Mar 22, 2023 · Jackson Heights has been referred to as the world's most diverse neighbourhood (Credit: Sebastian Modak; mural by Erick Teran) On the neighbourhood's southern edge, cutting through Queens like a ...

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4. www.nytimes.com › interactive › 2020/08/27Jackson Heights, Queens: Walk Where the World Finds a Home

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   Aug 27, 2020 · There was a notorious hate crime in Jackson Heights back in 1990. Julio Rivera, a 29-year-old gay bartender, was lured to a public schoolyard, beaten and stabbed to death by skinheads. The corner ...

5. www.dnainfo.com › new-york › 20130715New Book Details Jackson Heights' Past ... - DNAinfo New York

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   Jul 15, 2013 · Images of America: Jackson Heights shows the history of the neighborhood, from small farms and dirt roads to an airport and major thoroughfares, through more than 100 photos.

6. 6tocelebrate.org › neighborhoods › jackson-heightsJackson Heights - Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate

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   Jackson Heights is an early-20th-century neighborhood in central Queens, composed of low-rise garden apartments and houses as well as institutional and commercial buildings. It was the first and remains the largest garden-apartment community in the United States— the product of both the early 20th-century model tenement and the Garden City ...

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7. architecturaltrust.org › easements › about-the-trustJackson Heights Historic District - architecturaltrust.org

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   The Jackson Heights Historic District is a residential development built in the early part of the 20th century, primarily between the 1910s and early 1950s. Jackson Heights was conceived, designed, and built by the Queensboro Corporation as a garden city. This unique design concept treated each block as an individual design unit, rather than as ...

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   Why is Jackson Heights so famous?

   • At that time, he was 14 and, like the city, Jackson Heights was going through a rough patch. He and I “met” the other day (virtually, by phone) at Diversity Plaza, the blocklong stretch of street, pedestrianized in 2012, which has become Jackson Heights’s de facto town square and a proud symbol of Queens as the city’s most international borough.

   Jackson Heights, Queens: Walk Where the World Finds a Home

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   Who designed Jackson Heights?

   • Soon after the IRT’s opening, the Queensboro Corporation would hire architect Andrew J. Thomas to join Wells as the primary designer for the development, and it was under Thomas’s direction in the 1920s that Jackson Heights grew into a bustling, tight-knit neighborhood.

   The transformation of Jackson Heights - Curbed NY

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   Does Jackson Heights feel like New York City?

   • "To me, Jackson Heights feels like the ideal version of New York City – it's what the city can be," said Esthi Zipori, who is originally from Israel and moved to the neighbourhood seven years ago.

   Jackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New York - BBC

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   When did major development start in Jackson Heights?

   • Major development didn’t really take off in Jackson Heights until 1917, when the elevated IRT Flushing line (today’s 7 train) reached the neighborhood. Through the Queensboro Corporation, MacDougall—who understood that accessible transportation was the key to the area’s success—lobbied to get the stalled subway project off the ground.

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   When did black people move to Jackson Heights?

   • As early as the 1920s, in Northern cities like New York, as many as three white residents left urban areas for every black person who moved in. Jackson Heights, while technically a part of New York City, was being sold as a suburb—an antidote to urban Manhattan.

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   Is Jackson Heights a microcosm of New York City?

   • Jackson Heights is a microcosm of New York City, but it also reflects the ways the city is changing (Credit: Sebastian Modak) On my regular trips to Roosevelt Avenue, I walk past signs I don't know how to read alongside ones I do. I feel like I learn a little more about the world and my place in it with every visit.

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9. ny.curbed.com › jackson-heights-queens-historyThe transformation of Jackson Heights - Curbed NY

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   Apr 19, 2017 · On the Flushing line’s opening day, April 21, 1917, the New York Times pointed out that from the new elevated tracks, one could see the “splendid apartment house development of the Queensboro ...