The Voice of the Queensborough Preservation League

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1996

Rob't Singleton, Editor

Vol. 2, Part 1 & 2

The Queensborough Preservation League

A coalition of organizations and individuals united to preserve the architecture, history and quality of life in Queens, New York

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The use of words as instruments of exploration and discovery assumes both a writer and a reader seeking to know the world as it is, not as conceived by the authors of political campaign speeches and ethical romance … The task is a difficult one, but the courage and imagination required of the writer ... and the emotions called forth in the reader … increase the common stores of energy and hope … Lewis Latham's "Notebook" Harper's Magazine 1996

THE BATTLE OF FORT TOTTEN

Table of Contents

Part 1

• Politics & Preservation by Dr. Jeffrey Kroessler
• Queensmark Program by Stanley Cogan
• The Aquacade Demolition: Media Outrage!
  • "Our Apologies, Gertrude" from Queens Chronicle
  • "The End of A Landmark" from Queens Tribune
• The Battle of Fort Totten by Ray Beckerman, Esq.
• The Battle of Fort Totten: Historical Background
• Why We Need to "Hold the Fort" for All! by Geraldine Spinella
• Bayside Historical Society
• Bayside Avenue Estates Aboretum by Paul Graziano
• The Trees of Flushing
• Control, Stability, Renewal Part 1 by Jeffrey Saunders
• Queens Borough Public Library History Project
• The LPC Listens: Jackson Heights Rules Upgraded by Adrianne Sumowicz

Part 2

• St. Monica's Church of Jamaica by James Driscoll
• Preservation Alerts!
  • Woodhaven
  • Far Rockaway
  • Whitestone
  • Elmhurst
  • Astoria
  • Forest Hills Garden
  • Beechhurst
  • Middle Village
• The Fate of Fort Totten: Parkland or! from Queens Weekly newspapers
• Flushing R.K.O. Keith's Theater quotable Quotes
• Preservation Forum: Does Borough President Shulman's Record support merit her Preservation Award?
  • Yes! by Mary B. O'Hara
  • No! by Jerry Rotandi
• Landmarks by Borough
• Who Will Save Queens Beauties? by Stanley Cogan
• 1996 Historic Preservation Awards by the Queens History Advisory Committee
• Douglaston: This is New York City? by Kevin Wolfe
• Jamaica: Two Queens Landmarks -- La Casina & The First Reformed Church of Janmaica
• Control, Stability, Renewal Part 2 by Jeffrey Saunders
• What Landmark Designation Means from the Landmarks Preservation Commission
• Aquacade: Reducto ad Absurdum by Eric Wm. Allison

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last rev. 7/6/97
by David Goldfarb