Timeline of Queens

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

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

• 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 7 Train reaches 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.
  • Gary Ackerman becomes U.S. representative for New York's 7th congressional district.
• 1985 - Greater Astoria Historical Society founded.
• 1986 - Mets win their second World Series.
• 1990
  • Citicorp Building constructed, at the time the tallest building between Manhattan and 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 - Gregory Meeks becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.[20]

21st century

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
  • Queens Memory Project begins.
  • Population: 2,230,722 in Queens.[23]
• 2013
  • Grace Meng becomes U.S. representative for New York's 6th congressional district.[24]
  • 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 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.[25]
• 2021
  • January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine.[26] With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.[26]

See also

• 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: Astoria, Bayside, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, Elmhurst, Flushing, Glendale, Jamaica, Long Island City, Maspeth, Ridgewood, Rockaway, Whitestone, Woodhaven, Woodside, etc.

other NYC boroughs

• Timeline of Brooklyn
• Timeline of the Bronx
• Timeline of Staten Island

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. 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. 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. Walk Through Queens 2004.
8. 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. Forman, Seth. "Gotham Gazette -- Community Boards". www.gothamgazette.com. Gotham Gazette. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
17. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
18. "Attractions". It's In Queens. Queens Economic Development Corporation. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
19. "USA: New York: New York City: Queens". Emporis.com. Hamburg: Emporis GmbH. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
20. "New York". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2003.
21. Air Disasters Timeline, BBC News, November 1, 2015
22. "Newtown Historical Society". Retrieved January 30, 2016.
23. "Queens County (Queens Borough), New York". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
24. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
25. Solomon, Rebecca; Harry, Ayana; Associated Press (14 December 2020). "NYC nurse gets 1st COVID-19 vaccine in US". WPIX. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
26. Murdock, Vanessa (January 4, 2021). "Nurse Sandra Lindsay, First Person To Receive COVID Vaccine In U.S., Gets Second And Final Dose".

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.CS1 maint: others (link) (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

• "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.