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Images shows people hanging around a corner store in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
☀️ This #TBT takes us back to July 1980, at the corner of Halsey Street and Evergreen Avenue, just blocks from the Bushwick-Ridgewood border.
Photo from #QPLarchives by William A. Brief 📸
#NYC1980s #BushRidge #RidgewoodQueens #BushwickBrooklyn #NYCSummer
🗃️✨ Community Archiving Happy Hour returns on Thursday, Aug. 14, at 4pm ET ✨🗃️
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🎉 Join us for Community Day at Ridgewood Library! 🎉
📅 Saturday, August 9th
🕚 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Ridgewood Library – Main Floor
20-12 Madison Street, Ridgewood, NY 11385
Meet local organizations, explore community resources, and discover how you can get involved in neighborhood causes!
New York City is going through a heat wave and Queens Public Library is here to help!
Please visit your local library if you need an air-conditioned Cooling Center to #BeatTheHeat!
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A row of two story flat roof town houses in Long Island City, Queens, in the 1920's.
A row of two story flat roof town houses in Long Island City, Queens, in 2024.
#TBT Sharing this 1927 photo of a Long Island City block on 39th Avenue (formerly Beebe Avenue), between 30th & 31st Streets! Mosty unchanged, but the center building, once home to F. Ave Co. Inc. Millwrights & Machinists, has been replaced.
Photo Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #LongIslandCity
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It's hot out! Beat the heat at your local @qplnyc.bsky.social library branch - where there’s books, activities, and A/C 🧊 at most locations. 😎 Stay cool, Queens!
Photo: Douglaston Library in 1935, from #QPLarchives
#CoolingCenters #HeatWave #DouglastonQueens #1930s
Got old Queens recipes, postcards, or photos? Preserve them at our free Community Scanning Day! Join us at Hunters Point Library on Thursday, July 24, from 4-7:30 PM. Get free digitization, keep originals, and receive a flash drive. All welcome! 📸🌆✨ buff.ly/jF89XUP
#CommunityArchives #HuntersPoint
New York City is going through a heat wave and Queens Public Library is here to help!
Please visit your local library if you need an air-conditioned Cooling Center to #BeatTheHeat!
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#OnThisDay July 10, 1934, this postcard shows a crowded Jacob Riis Park Beach in Rockaway🏖
Named for social reform journalist Jacob Riis, the park's #ArtDeco bathhouse (1932, John L. Plock) originally accommodated 8,000.
#QPLarchives #RiisParkBeach #RockawayQueens #1930sNYC #PostCards
#QueensExplore #IndependenceDay
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The word "Closed," calendar pages reading Fri, July 4, Sat, July 5, and Sun, July 6, and the words "All Queens Public Library locations will be closed for Independence Day Weekend," on a yellow background.
Reminder: All QPL locations will be closed for #IndependenceDay Weekend: #July4th, July 5th, and July 6th.
Our digital media is always available from anywhere with an Internet connection—enjoy eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, music, movies, and more.
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Lines of Airplanes on the Runway ready to take off
Interior of the old TWA terminal designed by Eero Saarinen
Mid-Century Style Pan American Terminal with its distinctive saucer-shaped roof
Aerial view of airport under construction on Jamaica Bay, NY
#OnThisDay: JFK Airport Opened! On 7-1-1948, New York International Airport (Idlewild) opened in Queens. It was renamed for JFK in 1963
#QPLArchives #AirportHistory #JFKairport #AviationHistory
1. Airplanes 1965
2. TWA Terminal, 1963
3. Pan American Terminal 1961
4. Airport Construction, 1947
June 1974: Looking west on Jamaica Ave from 163rd Street, beneath the BMT (J Train) elevated tracks. This section of the elevated line was torn down in 1977.
#QPLarchives #JamaicaQueens
#JTrain #JamaicaAvenue
#1970s #nyc1970s #ElevatedSubways
#CommunityArchiving Happy Hour on July 1 at 12 PM ET! Laura Orleans & Emma York from New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center share "Casting A Wider Net" #OralHistory: preserving diverse fishing community stories. Don't miss this session on access, storytelling & memory! Register: tinyurl.com/mw4kzrkp
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There is a Heat Wave in New York City and
Queens Public Library (@qplnyc.bsky.social) is here to help!
Please visit your local library if you need an air-conditioned Cooling Center to #BeatTheHeat!
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☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️
Celebrate the longest day of the year with these seasonal Works Progress Administration artworks. Featuring lithograph prints by Minetta Good & Ann Nooney.
#QPLarchives #SummerSolstice #QueensLibrary #WPAArt #1930s #NewDeal #WPALithograph
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Learn More & Join Us!
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An alarm clock sitting next to the words "Libraries Are For Everyone. Invest In Libraries." on a black background.
Our City leaders are busy negotiating the upcoming budget.
The clock is ticking—please take a moment to send a message, and ask New York City's leaders to #InvestInLibraries!
Thank you for standing with us!
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![A vintage black-and-white photo of four people smiling and holding signs at a Pride parade. One sign reads “Loves” and another appears to say “Parents of Gays.” Overlaid on the image is a purple transparent box with a quote in white text that reads: “The symbolic presence that my mother provided was a sign of great hope that parents can be supportive. That the people we’re closest to, whom we love the most, need not be our enemies; [they] can be our supporters.” — Morty Manford, 1989. A large purple quotation mark icon is in the top left corner, and Morty Manford’s name and the year are written in a purple box in the bottom right corner.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:alsmkwgxfyjrfvaumckul7yx/bafkreigbqf3sv6ut2rkkgwwf3r3gejchdph5puj6lj7dhjunuaofhokvva@jpeg)
A vintage black-and-white photo of four people smiling and holding signs at a Pride parade. One sign reads “Loves” and another appears to say “Parents of Gays.” Overlaid on the image is a purple transparent box with a quote in white text that reads: “The symbolic presence that my mother provided was a sign of great hope that parents can be supportive. That the people we’re closest to, whom we love the most, need not be our enemies; [they] can be our supporters.” — Morty Manford, 1989. A large purple quotation mark icon is in the top left corner, and Morty Manford’s name and the year are written in a purple box in the bottom right corner.
Black-and-white historical photo of four adults standing side by side at a Pride event, smiling and holding handmade signs. From left to right: a young man, an older woman holding a sign that reads “Parents of Gays Unite in Support of Our Children,” a man in a suit, and another woman holding a sign that says “Loves Mom, Loves Love.” In the bottom right corner, there is a semi-transparent map overlay with a location pin icon and a purple banner that reads: “Jeanne, Jules, Morty Manford PFLAG Way, Flushing.”
A map graphic showing an intersection in Flushing, Queens with labeled buildings and streets. On the left is the colorful "Queens Name Explorer" logo. In the upper right corner is a black-and-white historic photo of Jeanne Manford, her son Morty, and others holding a sign that reads: “Parents of Gays: Unite in Support of Our Children.” Below the photo, a purple text box reads: “In June 1972, Queens schoolteacher Jeanne Manford marched alongside her son, Morty, in a Gay Liberation March, carrying a sign: ‘Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children.’ These turned out to be the first steps in the founding of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays — PFLAG, now a national organization.”
Illustration of a street sign post with three colorful directional arrows pointing in different directions. The top arrow is orange and reads 'QUEENS', the middle arrow is blue and reads 'NAME', and the bottom arrow is green and reads 'EXPLORER'. Below the sign post is a gold ribbon banner with black text that says 'CELEBRATING QUEENS PRIDE MONTH'. The background is a vibrant purple gradient.
Did you know @pflag.org began in Flushing, Queens?
The Manfords—Jeanne, Morty and Jules—helped spark a nationwide movement for #LGBTQ+ rights and family support right here in our borough.
#PrideMonth #WeSpeakPride
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🎧🌊New Podcast Episode Release + Live Listening Party!
Join us at the Cambria Heights branch @qplnyc.bsky.social on Thursday, June 12, at 5:30pm!
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Listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/i46HARv
A father holds his toddler daughter in his arms - both are smiling.
A father in a jacket and tie holds his 1 year old daughter in is arms in front of a parking lot with the elevated tracks for the subway in the background.
A smiling dad holds his 3 year old son in a Ridgewood Queens backyard.
This Sunday, we're celebrating #FathersDay with 1980s Queens dads from #QPLarchives!
c. 1985: Father & daughter at Langston Hughes Library #EastElmhurstQueens
1985: James & Sarah Mott #WoodhavenQueens
1981: Bob & Rob Monahan #RidgewoodQueens
Happy Father's Day! #1980snyc
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Photo of a large Victorian four-story school building, with a yard and trees.
Close up of a historic map showing location of St. Joseph’s Academy.
1914 #LanternSlide in Flushing, Queens: The St. Joseph's Home for Girls (on Sanford & Kissena, then Jamaica Ave). Former Catholic school, then orphanage/nuns' home. The building burned down in 1960s. Map from 1873.
#QPLarchives #FlushingQueens #nyc1910s
2001 Anders Goldfarb photo of the iconic #LongIslandCity Terra Cotta Building on Vernon Blvd next to the #QueensboroBridge. Built in 1892 as HQ for NY Architectural Terra Cotta Works, it housed various construction businesses until 1968. The building was landmarked in the early 1980s. #QPLarchives
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Celebrate Haitian Flag & Heritage Day at Central Library! 🎉
Crafts, dance, artist talk w/ Gilbert Dorimain. Learn about Queens Memory & digitize your photos FREE (11 AM). Family workshop w/ Artist Rejin Leys (12 PM), talk (1 PM), Dance (3 PM).
#HaitianHeritageMonth #Queens @qplnyc.bsky.social
1965 Queens: Rapid growth captured on this Queens Chamber of Commerce magazine cover! This archival map shows urbanization fueled by new expressways & the World's Fair.
#QPLArchives #QueensNYC #HistoricMaps #NYC1960s
Post by Maria Byrne, Citi + QPL Fellow, Spring 2025
Relive your QC days! 📚 Join Queens Memory Outreach Coordinator Lori DiBella Wallach on June 16th at 4PM for a brief QC history & share your favorite club/friendship stories. 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/MondayMemories25 #QueensCollege
#QueensCollege #QCAlumni #QueensCollegeAlumni #QueensCollegeHistory
#TBT 1954 family photo in Forest Hills, Queens! Sophia Chan with her daughters Andrea and Ellyn. From the Memories of Migration project, donated by Ellyn Chan Roberson.
#QPLArchives #ForestHillsQueens #AANHPIHeritageMonth #MemoriesOfMigration #1950s
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