Dutch Kills, Queens

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Early 1900s map of Dutch Kills, from Greater Astoria Historical Society

North end of canalized Dutch Kills

Montauk Branch bridges over Dutch Kills

Dutch Kills is an area within Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. It was a hamlet, named for its navigable tributary of Newtown Creek, that occupied what today is centrally Queensboro Plaza. Dutch Kills was an important road hub during the American Revolutionary War, and the site of a British Army garrison from 1776 to 1783. The area supported farms during the 19th Century, and was finally consolidated in 1870 with the villages of Astoria, Ravenswood, Hunters Point and Blissville to form Long Island City.^[1]

The canalization of Newtown Creek and the Kills at the end of the 19th century intensified industrial development of the area, which prospered until the middle of the 20th century. The neighborhood is currently undergoing a massive rezoning of mixed residential and commercial properties.

References

↑ Greater Astoria Historical Society; Jackson, Thomas; Melnick, Richard (2004). Long Island City. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 0-7385-3666-0.

External links

Information about Dutch Kills from the Greater Astoria Historical Society

v t e Neighborhoods in the New York City Borough of Queens

Arverne Astoria Astoria Heights Auburndale Bayside Bayswater Bay Terrace Beechhurst Bellaire Belle Harbor Bellerose Blissville Boulevard Gardens Breezy Point Briarwood Broad Channel Broadway-Flushing Cambria Heights College Point Corona Ditmars Douglaston Dutch Kills East Elmhurst Edgemere Electchester Elmhurst Far Rockaway Floral Park Flushing Flushing Chinatown Forest Hills Forest Hills Gardens Fresh Meadows Fresh Pond Glendale Glen Oaks Hamilton Beach Hammels Hillcrest Hollis Hollis Hills Holliswood Howard Beach Howard Park Hunters Point Jackson Heights Jamaica Jamaica Estates Jamaica Hills Kew Gardens Kew Gardens Hills Koreatown Laurelton LeFrak City Linden Hill Lindenwood Little Egypt Little Neck Locust Manor Long Island City Malba Maspeth Meadowmere Middle Village Murray Hill Neponsit North Corona North Shore Towers Oakland Gardens Old Howard Beach Ozone Park Pomonok Queensboro Hill Queensbridge Queens Village Ramblersville Ravenswood Rego Park Richmond Hill Ridgewood Rochdale Rockaway Rockaway Beach Rockaway Park Rockwood Park Rosedale Roxbury St. Albans Seaside South Jamaica South Ozone Park Springfield Gardens Sunnyside Sunnyside Gardens The Hole Tudor Village Utopia Warnerville Whitestone Willets Point Woodhaven Woodside Wyckoff Heights

Community Boards: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Coordinates: 40°44′49″N 73°56′24″W / 40.747°N 73.940°W / 40.747; -73.940

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.