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Pictures dated c. 1940 and 2003.
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Neither Rain nor Snow

During its early years, the Kew Gardens Country Club served as a community center. Along with a police booth and a news stand, it housed the neighborhood's first post office. In 1930, the official Kew Gardens Station of the U.S. Post Office opened in one of the ground floor units of the two story Tudor Building on Austin Street just west of Lefferts Boulevard. (Today, that space is the site of the Track Side Cafe.) There it remained until 1957 when it moved to its permanent home on Austin Street just east of Lefferts Boulevard.

Sources:  Queens Chronicle columnist, Ron Marzlock; Mrs. Wm. C. Hart, "Kew Gardens of Today - A Far Cry From 50 years Ago", p. 3, The Community News (Jan. 1966). Circa 1940 New York City Tax Photograph courtesy NYC Municipal Archives.

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