It’s #Mets Home Opening Day!
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives!
#FlashbackFriday #LGM
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives!
#FlashbackFriday #LGM
April 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It’s #Mets Home Opening Day!
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives!
#FlashbackFriday #LGM
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives!
#FlashbackFriday #LGM
Time for a #ArchivesHashtagParty! Can you believe this is Forest Hills, Queens? This 1905 landscape photo was taken from the Backus family's farm, located on Hoffman Boulevard (now Queens Boulevard).
#ArchivesLandscape #QPLarchives #ForestHillsQueens #GlassPlateNegatives
#ArchivesLandscape #QPLarchives #ForestHillsQueens #GlassPlateNegatives
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Time for a #ArchivesHashtagParty! Can you believe this is Forest Hills, Queens? This 1905 landscape photo was taken from the Backus family's farm, located on Hoffman Boulevard (now Queens Boulevard).
#ArchivesLandscape #QPLarchives #ForestHillsQueens #GlassPlateNegatives
#ArchivesLandscape #QPLarchives #ForestHillsQueens #GlassPlateNegatives
Today is Library Advocacy Day, and it’s also #LibraryLoversMonth!
These #QPLarchives photos show the Howard Beach Branch in 1963, Bayside Branch in 1965, South Ozone Park Branch in 1974, and Queensboro Hill Branch in 1982. 🧡
Remember to #SupportYourLibrary!
#LAD25
@qplnyc.bsky.social
These #QPLarchives photos show the Howard Beach Branch in 1963, Bayside Branch in 1965, South Ozone Park Branch in 1974, and Queensboro Hill Branch in 1982. 🧡
Remember to #SupportYourLibrary!
#LAD25
@qplnyc.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Today is Library Advocacy Day, and it’s also #LibraryLoversMonth!
These #QPLarchives photos show the Howard Beach Branch in 1963, Bayside Branch in 1965, South Ozone Park Branch in 1974, and Queensboro Hill Branch in 1982. 🧡
Remember to #SupportYourLibrary!
#LAD25
@qplnyc.bsky.social
These #QPLarchives photos show the Howard Beach Branch in 1963, Bayside Branch in 1965, South Ozone Park Branch in 1974, and Queensboro Hill Branch in 1982. 🧡
Remember to #SupportYourLibrary!
#LAD25
@qplnyc.bsky.social
It’s #Mets Home #OpeningDay!
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives.
Let's Go Mets!
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #LGM
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives.
Let's Go Mets!
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #LGM
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
March 26, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It’s #Mets Home #OpeningDay!
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives.
Let's Go Mets!
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #LGM
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
Here’s a photo of Shea Stadium from the Postcard Collection in the #QPLArchives.
Let's Go Mets!
#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #LGM
@mets.com
@queensmemory.bsky.social
#TBT 1954 family photo in Forest Hills, Queens! Sophia Chan with her daughters Andrea and Ellyn. From the Memories of Migration project, donated by Ellyn Chan Roberson.
#QPLArchives #ForestHillsQueens #AANHPIHeritageMonth #MemoriesOfMigration #1950s
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#QPLArchives #ForestHillsQueens #AANHPIHeritageMonth #MemoriesOfMigration #1950s
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May 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#TBT 1954 family photo in Forest Hills, Queens! Sophia Chan with her daughters Andrea and Ellyn. From the Memories of Migration project, donated by Ellyn Chan Roberson.
#QPLArchives #ForestHillsQueens #AANHPIHeritageMonth #MemoriesOfMigration #1950s
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#QPLArchives #ForestHillsQueens #AANHPIHeritageMonth #MemoriesOfMigration #1950s
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Queens was once dappled with ponds and streams that vanished as the borough grew. John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport—originally Idlewild—is a prime example of how massive infrastructure permanently reshaped the borough's natural waterscape.
#QPLarchives #JFKairport #NYCwaterways #HistoricMaps
#QPLarchives #JFKairport #NYCwaterways #HistoricMaps
July 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Queens was once dappled with ponds and streams that vanished as the borough grew. John F. Kennedy Intl. Airport—originally Idlewild—is a prime example of how massive infrastructure permanently reshaped the borough's natural waterscape.
#QPLarchives #JFKairport #NYCwaterways #HistoricMaps
#QPLarchives #JFKairport #NYCwaterways #HistoricMaps
Happy Anniversary Queens Public Library! 🎂 From 3 branches in 1896 to 66 today, see the originals in 1910:
LIC: East Ave (11th St)
Astoria: 14-01 Astoria Blvd
Steinway: 42-01 23rd Ave
#QPL #QPLDay @qplnyc.bsky.social
PS: Flushing had the 1st free library -but was not in original charter! 📚
LIC: East Ave (11th St)
Astoria: 14-01 Astoria Blvd
Steinway: 42-01 23rd Ave
#QPL #QPLDay @qplnyc.bsky.social
PS: Flushing had the 1st free library -but was not in original charter! 📚
March 19, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Happy #MothersDay to all moms, mother figures, and caregivers, in Queens and everywhere!
(Black-and-white photos courtesy of the #QPLArchives.)
And don't forget our free #QPLBaby programs, designed for expecting parents, new families, and their little ones!
queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
(Black-and-white photos courtesy of the #QPLArchives.)
And don't forget our free #QPLBaby programs, designed for expecting parents, new families, and their little ones!
queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
May 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Happy #MothersDay to all moms, mother figures, and caregivers, in Queens and everywhere!
(Black-and-white photos courtesy of the #QPLArchives.)
And don't forget our free #QPLBaby programs, designed for expecting parents, new families, and their little ones!
queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
(Black-and-white photos courtesy of the #QPLArchives.)
And don't forget our free #QPLBaby programs, designed for expecting parents, new families, and their little ones!
queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
#TBT to a sweet and spooky Halloween on 46th Street in #SunnysideGardens (circa 1950)! 👻 This photo, donated by Rita (Zuckerman) Jaros, is part of the Sunnyside Stories website and is preserved in the #QPLarchives Queens Memory digital collection.
#Halloween #SunnysideQueens
#Halloween #SunnysideQueens
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#TBT to a sweet and spooky Halloween on 46th Street in #SunnysideGardens (circa 1950)! 👻 This photo, donated by Rita (Zuckerman) Jaros, is part of the Sunnyside Stories website and is preserved in the #QPLarchives Queens Memory digital collection.
#Halloween #SunnysideQueens
#Halloween #SunnysideQueens
Look Back: Feb '72 issue of Transitions Press, which featured this Art & Poetry supplement. Based out of the Langston Hughes Community Library, the local Corona/East Elmhurst newspaper focused on the Black community🤎
#QPLarchives
#BlackHistoryMonth
#CoronaQueens
#EastElmhurstQueens
#QPLarchives
#BlackHistoryMonth
#CoronaQueens
#EastElmhurstQueens
February 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Look Back: Feb '72 issue of Transitions Press, which featured this Art & Poetry supplement. Based out of the Langston Hughes Community Library, the local Corona/East Elmhurst newspaper focused on the Black community🤎
#QPLarchives
#BlackHistoryMonth
#CoronaQueens
#EastElmhurstQueens
#QPLarchives
#BlackHistoryMonth
#CoronaQueens
#EastElmhurstQueens
#ArchivesHashtagParty! For #ArchivesFeast, we're sharing a page with the recipe for “Excellent Pudding” from the handwritten Parsons Family Cookbook & Medicine recipes (1870s-80s). Recipes for cakes, puddings, & home remedies!
#QPLarchives
#FlushingQueens
#ArchivalManuscripts
#QPLarchives
#FlushingQueens
#ArchivalManuscripts
December 6, 2024 at 3:36 PM
#ArchivesHashtagParty! For #ArchivesFeast, we're sharing a page with the recipe for “Excellent Pudding” from the handwritten Parsons Family Cookbook & Medicine recipes (1870s-80s). Recipes for cakes, puddings, & home remedies!
#QPLarchives
#FlushingQueens
#ArchivalManuscripts
#QPLarchives
#FlushingQueens
#ArchivalManuscripts
#OnThisDay 🎄✨ December 19, 1935: Young library patrons gather around the Christmas tree in the Children's Room at the old Queens Public Library Central Building on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens!
#QPLarchives
#JamaicaQueens
@qplnyc.bsky.social
#QPLarchives
#JamaicaQueens
@qplnyc.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
#OnThisDay 🎄✨ December 19, 1935: Young library patrons gather around the Christmas tree in the Children's Room at the old Queens Public Library Central Building on Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens!
#QPLarchives
#JamaicaQueens
@qplnyc.bsky.social
#QPLarchives
#JamaicaQueens
@qplnyc.bsky.social
#TBT: 1951 postcard of Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills💚 The Ridgewood Savings Bank at 71st Ave (still standing!) is at center right. Postmarked March 9th, the back features #ArchivesHandwriting with a message for family.
#QPLarchives #Postcards #1950s #ForestHillsQueens #ArchivesHashtagParty
#QPLarchives #Postcards #1950s #ForestHillsQueens #ArchivesHashtagParty
March 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#TBT: 1951 postcard of Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills💚 The Ridgewood Savings Bank at 71st Ave (still standing!) is at center right. Postmarked March 9th, the back features #ArchivesHandwriting with a message for family.
#QPLarchives #Postcards #1950s #ForestHillsQueens #ArchivesHashtagParty
#QPLarchives #Postcards #1950s #ForestHillsQueens #ArchivesHashtagParty
#OnThisDay July 10, 1934, this postcard shows a crowded Jacob Riis Park Beach in Rockaway🏖
Named for social reform journalist Jacob Riis, the park's #ArtDeco bathhouse (1932, John L. Plock) originally accommodated 8,000.
#QPLarchives #RiisParkBeach #RockawayQueens #1930sNYC #PostCards
Named for social reform journalist Jacob Riis, the park's #ArtDeco bathhouse (1932, John L. Plock) originally accommodated 8,000.
#QPLarchives #RiisParkBeach #RockawayQueens #1930sNYC #PostCards
July 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
#OnThisDay July 10, 1934, this postcard shows a crowded Jacob Riis Park Beach in Rockaway🏖
Named for social reform journalist Jacob Riis, the park's #ArtDeco bathhouse (1932, John L. Plock) originally accommodated 8,000.
#QPLarchives #RiisParkBeach #RockawayQueens #1930sNYC #PostCards
Named for social reform journalist Jacob Riis, the park's #ArtDeco bathhouse (1932, John L. Plock) originally accommodated 8,000.
#QPLarchives #RiisParkBeach #RockawayQueens #1930sNYC #PostCards
View across Sunnyside Yard along Hoffman Boulevard (Queens Boulevard) toward Queensboro Bridge in 1911. The Brewster Building, with its clock tower, is at center over in Long Island City.
📸 Photo: Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #SunnysideYard
#LongIslandCity #SunnysideQueens
#QueensboroBridge
📸 Photo: Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #SunnysideYard
#LongIslandCity #SunnysideQueens
#QueensboroBridge
March 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
View across Sunnyside Yard along Hoffman Boulevard (Queens Boulevard) toward Queensboro Bridge in 1911. The Brewster Building, with its clock tower, is at center over in Long Island City.
📸 Photo: Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #SunnysideYard
#LongIslandCity #SunnysideQueens
#QueensboroBridge
📸 Photo: Eugene L. Armbruster
#QPLarchives #SunnysideYard
#LongIslandCity #SunnysideQueens
#QueensboroBridge
☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️
Celebrate the longest day of the year with these seasonal Works Progress Administration artworks. Featuring lithograph prints by Minetta Good & Ann Nooney.
#QPLarchives #SummerSolstice #QueensLibrary #WPAArt #1930s #NewDeal #WPALithograph
Celebrate the longest day of the year with these seasonal Works Progress Administration artworks. Featuring lithograph prints by Minetta Good & Ann Nooney.
#QPLarchives #SummerSolstice #QueensLibrary #WPAArt #1930s #NewDeal #WPALithograph
June 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️
Celebrate the longest day of the year with these seasonal Works Progress Administration artworks. Featuring lithograph prints by Minetta Good & Ann Nooney.
#QPLarchives #SummerSolstice #QueensLibrary #WPAArt #1930s #NewDeal #WPALithograph
Celebrate the longest day of the year with these seasonal Works Progress Administration artworks. Featuring lithograph prints by Minetta Good & Ann Nooney.
#QPLarchives #SummerSolstice #QueensLibrary #WPAArt #1930s #NewDeal #WPALithograph
2001 Anders Goldfarb photo of the iconic #LongIslandCity Terra Cotta Building on Vernon Blvd next to the #QueensboroBridge. Built in 1892 as HQ for NY Architectural Terra Cotta Works, it housed various construction businesses until 1968. The building was landmarked in the early 1980s. #QPLarchives
May 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
2001 Anders Goldfarb photo of the iconic #LongIslandCity Terra Cotta Building on Vernon Blvd next to the #QueensboroBridge. Built in 1892 as HQ for NY Architectural Terra Cotta Works, it housed various construction businesses until 1968. The building was landmarked in the early 1980s. #QPLarchives
This oversized Queens insurance #atlas (1928) maps Long Island City in detail. Hand-edited thru 2001! It shows dimensions, building types, streets, utilities, & more.
#QPLarchives #LongIslandCity #HistoricMaps #QueensNY
Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow
#QPLarchives #LongIslandCity #HistoricMaps #QueensNY
Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow
January 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This oversized Queens insurance #atlas (1928) maps Long Island City in detail. Hand-edited thru 2001! It shows dimensions, building types, streets, utilities, & more.
#QPLarchives #LongIslandCity #HistoricMaps #QueensNY
Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow
#QPLarchives #LongIslandCity #HistoricMaps #QueensNY
Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow
#TBT to May 20, 1935 📸
Flushing Armory on Northern Blvd & Leavitt St. and the Flushing Memorial by Hermon MacNeil. The inscription reads: “The World War – In Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives.”
Have a safe Memorial Day! Reminder: QPL locations closed May 23-25.
#QPLarchives @qplnyc.bsky.social
Flushing Armory on Northern Blvd & Leavitt St. and the Flushing Memorial by Hermon MacNeil. The inscription reads: “The World War – In Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives.”
Have a safe Memorial Day! Reminder: QPL locations closed May 23-25.
#QPLarchives @qplnyc.bsky.social
May 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
#TBT to May 20, 1935 📸
Flushing Armory on Northern Blvd & Leavitt St. and the Flushing Memorial by Hermon MacNeil. The inscription reads: “The World War – In Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives.”
Have a safe Memorial Day! Reminder: QPL locations closed May 23-25.
#QPLarchives @qplnyc.bsky.social
Flushing Armory on Northern Blvd & Leavitt St. and the Flushing Memorial by Hermon MacNeil. The inscription reads: “The World War – In Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives.”
Have a safe Memorial Day! Reminder: QPL locations closed May 23-25.
#QPLarchives @qplnyc.bsky.social
Jesse Jackson visits Rochdale Village, Queens!
1) In 1993 with Mayor David Dinkins, Councilmen Thomas White Jr. & Archie Spigner.
2) Campaigning for Gregory Meeks in February 1998.
RIP🤎
📸 Photo Aaron Slaughter, Rochdale Village Bulletin Collection.
#QPLarchives #RochdaleVillage
1) In 1993 with Mayor David Dinkins, Councilmen Thomas White Jr. & Archie Spigner.
2) Campaigning for Gregory Meeks in February 1998.
RIP🤎
📸 Photo Aaron Slaughter, Rochdale Village Bulletin Collection.
#QPLarchives #RochdaleVillage
February 18, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Jesse Jackson visits Rochdale Village, Queens!
1) In 1993 with Mayor David Dinkins, Councilmen Thomas White Jr. & Archie Spigner.
2) Campaigning for Gregory Meeks in February 1998.
RIP🤎
📸 Photo Aaron Slaughter, Rochdale Village Bulletin Collection.
#QPLarchives #RochdaleVillage
1) In 1993 with Mayor David Dinkins, Councilmen Thomas White Jr. & Archie Spigner.
2) Campaigning for Gregory Meeks in February 1998.
RIP🤎
📸 Photo Aaron Slaughter, Rochdale Village Bulletin Collection.
#QPLarchives #RochdaleVillage
October is Archives Month! Spotlight on the vertical file collection at #QPLArchives 📰
For decades, archivists have saved local newspaper clippings on Queens, Brooklyn & Long Island, organized by neighborhood & topic—an invaluable NYC history research tool.
#ArchivesMonth2026
For decades, archivists have saved local newspaper clippings on Queens, Brooklyn & Long Island, organized by neighborhood & topic—an invaluable NYC history research tool.
#ArchivesMonth2026
October 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
October is Archives Month! Spotlight on the vertical file collection at #QPLArchives 📰
For decades, archivists have saved local newspaper clippings on Queens, Brooklyn & Long Island, organized by neighborhood & topic—an invaluable NYC history research tool.
#ArchivesMonth2026
For decades, archivists have saved local newspaper clippings on Queens, Brooklyn & Long Island, organized by neighborhood & topic—an invaluable NYC history research tool.
#ArchivesMonth2026
September 3rd is National Skyscraper Day! Check out this 1977 photo of mini-skyscrapers from the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York as a tiny Citicorp Building gets added!
📷: Queens Museum Collection, QPL Digital Archives
#QPLArchives #NationalSkyscraperDay #QueensMuseum #NYCPanorama
📷: Queens Museum Collection, QPL Digital Archives
#QPLArchives #NationalSkyscraperDay #QueensMuseum #NYCPanorama
September 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
September 3rd is National Skyscraper Day! Check out this 1977 photo of mini-skyscrapers from the Queens Museum's Panorama of the City of New York as a tiny Citicorp Building gets added!
📷: Queens Museum Collection, QPL Digital Archives
#QPLArchives #NationalSkyscraperDay #QueensMuseum #NYCPanorama
📷: Queens Museum Collection, QPL Digital Archives
#QPLArchives #NationalSkyscraperDay #QueensMuseum #NYCPanorama
@qplnyc.bsky.social
A man pushes his bike through a flooded Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park following Hurricane Edna in September 1954 - a much rarer occurrence in NY back then than it is today.
📷: Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
#QPLArchives #ClimateWeekNYC
A man pushes his bike through a flooded Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park following Hurricane Edna in September 1954 - a much rarer occurrence in NY back then than it is today.
📷: Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
#QPLArchives #ClimateWeekNYC
September 24, 2026 at 1:21 PM
@qplnyc.bsky.social
A man pushes his bike through a flooded Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park following Hurricane Edna in September 1954 - a much rarer occurrence in NY back then than it is today.
📷: Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
#QPLArchives #ClimateWeekNYC
A man pushes his bike through a flooded Little Neck Parkway in Floral Park following Hurricane Edna in September 1954 - a much rarer occurrence in NY back then than it is today.
📷: Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
#QPLArchives #ClimateWeekNYC