A firsthand account of Long Island and Queens from the early 1900s
Experience New York’s transformation from farmland to suburbs
“July 11, 1892 I was born in Elmont Fosters Meadow Road & Central Ave at the present time Elmont Road and Linden Blvd.”
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“if this should be the last mile, I have had a good life with few setbacks”
—Edward J. Gunther, Sr. 8/26/1961