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Pictures dated c. 1900 and 2002.
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Accessible by Rail

Maple Grove Cemetery became accessible to residents of Manhattan and Long Island in 1880 when the Long Island Railroad opened its Hopedale station near today's Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard.

This is the Queens Boulevard entrance, this time looking toward Jamaica.

References: Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 8, 11 (1999); Vincent F. Seyfried & William Asadorian, Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs, p. 165 (Dover Publ. 1991). Circa 1900 picture courtesy of R. Billard.

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