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More Fun Facts About Queens!

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October 12, 2007 | 5:43 p.m

We've got more fun facts from the forthcoming book The Neighborhoods of Queens:

  • Stockholm Street in Ridgewood is the only brick road in Queens.
  • Woodside and Sunnyside host New York City's only St. Patrick's Day Parade open to gays and lesbians.
  • Ground was broken on the Triborough Bridge the day after the 1929 stock market crash that sparked the Great Depression. Robert Moses Got Things Done!
  • Cyndi Lauper grew up in Ozone Park.
  • In the mid-19th century, Rockaway Beach Hotel--then the world's largest hotel--stretched between Beach 110th Street and Beach 116th Street in Rockaway Park.
  • Now, the Rockaways have no hotels at all.
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