Timeline of Queens

The following is a timeline of the

Prior to 20th century

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• 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

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1900s–1940s

• 1900
  • King Manor Museum founded in Jamaica.^[6]
  • Population: 152,999.^[2]
• 1909 – Queensboro Bridge opens.^[5]
• 1910
  • East River Tunnels open.^[5]
  • Population: 284,041.^[2]
• 1911 – Queens Chamber of Commerce established.^[7]
• 1912 – Chapin Home for the Aging active.^[8]
• 1914 – Murray Hill Theatre opens in Flushing.^[9]
• 1915 – US Open tennis tournament relocates to Queens.
• 1916 –
  Queensboro Plaza (New York City Subway)
  opens.
• 1920 – Population: 469,042.^[2][10]
• 1928 – The
  Flushing
• 1930
  • King Kullen grocery supermarket in business.^[11]
  • Population: 1,079,129.^[2]
• 1933 - IND Crosstown Line begins operating.^[12]
• 1936 –
  Triborough Bridge built.^[5]
• 1939
  • April 30: 1939 New York World's Fair opens.^[7]
  • Bronx–Whitestone Bridge built.^[5]
• 1940
  • Queens–Midtown Tunnel opens.
  • Beacon Theater opens in Long Island City.^[13]
  • Population: 1,297,634.^[2]
• 1941 – Strand Theatre opens in Astoria.^[14]

1950s–1990s

• 1950 – Population: 1,550,849.^[2]
• 1953 – Queens Symphony Orchestra formed.^[15]
• 1960 – Population: 1,809,578.^[2]
• 1963
  • The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.^[16]
  • Weight Watchers founded.
• 1964
  • Shea Stadium opens, bringing Major League Baseball and the National Football League to Queens with the New York Mets and the New York Jets.
  • April 22: 1964 New York World's Fair opens.^[7]
• 1968 – Queens Historical Society founded.
• 1969 – Mets win the World Series for the first time.
• 1971 – Queens Tribune newspaper in publication.^[17]
• 1976
  • Afrikan Poetry Theatre founded.^[18]
  • Son of Sam serial killings take place over a year in Flushing, Bellerose, and Forest Hills.
• 1983
  • Silvercup Studios in business.
  • U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district
    .
• 1985 – Greater Astoria Historical Society founded.
• 1986 – Mets win their second World Series.
• 1990
  • Boston.^[19]
  • Population: 1,951,598.[2]
• 1993 –
  New York Hospital Queens active.^[8]
• 1996 – Energy Brands, maker of Vitamin Water, established in Whitestone.
• 1997 – Arthur Ashe Stadium opens, home to the US Open tennis tournament.
• 1998 –
  U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.^[20]

21st century

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2000s–2010s

• 2000 – Population: 2,229,379.
• 2001
  • November 12: Airplane crash occurs.^[21]
  • Astoria Performing Arts Center established.^[18]
• 2007 – Newtown Historical Society formed.^[22]
• 2010
  • March 10:
    Dominican-American to be elected to the New York State Senate.^[23][24]
  • Queens Memory Project begins.
  • Population: 2,230,722 in Queens.^[25]
• 2013
  • U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.^[26]
  • The graffiti wall 5 Pointz in Long Island City falls prey to redevelopment and is torn down without any opportunity to preserve the artwork.
• 2014
  • October 23: 2014 Queens hatchet attack.
  • Melinda Katz becomes borough president.
• 2017
  • January 20: Jamaica, Queens^[27] born Donald Trump becomes the 45th President of the United States.
• 2019
  • February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations for Amazon, the company announced it was withdrawing its plans to establish a presence in Long Island City, and with this withdrawal the prospect of 25,000 new jobs.

2020s

• 2020
  • December 14: Sandra Lindsay, a
    Registered Nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first recipient of the first dosage of the then only Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) approved COVID-19 vaccine – the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.^[28]
• 2021
  • January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine.[29] With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.^[29]
  • February 10:
    COVID-19 vaccination "mega-site" operated by the City of New York.^[30]

• Queens directories
• Queens history
• National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York
• List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Queens
• List of streetcar lines in Queens
• List of New York City Subway stations in Queens
• List of Queens borough presidents
• List of Queens neighborhoods
• Neighborhood histories:
  Douglaston, Elmhurst, Flushing, Glendale, Jamaica, Long Island City, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Rockaway, Whitestone, Woodhaven, Woodside
  , etc.

• Timeline of Brooklyn
• Timeline of the Bronx
• Timeline of Staten Island
• Timeline of New York City – a timeline inclusive of both Greater New York City and Manhattan history.

References

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

• hdl:2027/mdp.39015008975883
  – 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.
  Educational Broadcasting Corporation
  . 2004. (includes "History" section)
• Claudia Gryvatz Copquin (2007). The Neighborhoods of Queens. Yale University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-300-11299-3
  .
• Brendan McGovern and John W. Frazier (2015). "Evolving Ethnic Settlements in Queens: Historical and Current Forces Reshaping Human Geography". Focus on Geography (58).

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queens, New York City.

• "Timeline of Queens History". Queens Historical Society.
• "Queens Timeline". Greater Astoria Historical Society.
• "Archives at Queens Library". NY:
  Queens Library. Archived from the original
  on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
• Walter Greenspan. "Geographic History of Queens County" – via
  RootsWeb.com
  . (timeline)
• "Best of the Web: New York City History: Queens". New York Public Library.