Edgemere, Queens

Edgemere, Queens

Edgemere is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula. It was founded in 1892 by Frederick J. Lancaster, who originally called it New Venice. [ [http://www.rootsweb.com/~nynassa2/rockaways.htm The Rockaways] . Accessed October 2, 2007. "Edgemere was developed by Frederick J. Lancaster in 1892. The area was a sandy waste, with only two or three houses and the Half-Way House. Mr. Lancaster called the place New Venice."] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14. [ [http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_queens.shtml Queens Community Boards] , New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.]

Once a beachfront neighborhood thriving with inexpensive summer hotels and bungalows, amusements and boardwalk concessions, massive urban renewal projects in the 1960s precipitated the demolition of the vast majority of these resorts with nothing to replace them, leaving the area largely a wasteland for decades. Only in the 1990s was there any substantial sign of reversing this trend. The establishment of [http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/27/Q043 Public School 43] near the beachfront may be considered a major step in reclaiming the neighborhood.

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* http://www.forgotten-ny.com/NEIGHBORHOODS/edgemere/edgemere.html


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