1935; 1936

Flushing River - [Flushing Creek] - Queens - Horace Harding Boulevard.

Flushing River (Queens), formerly Flushing Creek, north from Horace Harding Boulevard, showing the Corona swamp and dumps. This area later became Flushing Meadow Park and the beautiful World's Fair grounds of 1939-40. View 3 shows a coal dock and auto graveyard below Corona Avenue and view 2 the Long Island Railroad tracks at about 144th Avenue. P. L. Sperr Views 1,2: Oct. 2, 1935 View 3: April 19, 1936

Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection