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Jackson Heights was conceived as a planned development for middle- to upper-middle-income workers looking to escape an overcrowded Manhattan. Inspired by Sir Ebenezer Howard's garden city movement, [10] [16] [17] it was laid out by Edward MacDougall's Queensboro Corporation in 1916 and began attracting residents after the arrival of the Flushing Line in 1917.
Garden School was founded in 1923, [1] taking its name from the newly conceived garden apartment complexes in the then-rural community of Jackson Heights. [citation needed] The first classes were grades K–3 and met in the Laburnum Court Apartments under the guidance of Dorothy Gleen, Charles Townshend, and Josephine Wech.
Travers Park is a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) community park and playground in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City.It is located between 77th and 78th Streets, on the north side of 34th Avenue.
Jackson Heights was conceived as a planned development for middle- to upper-middle-income workers looking to escape an overcrowded Manhattan. Inspired by Sir Ebenezer Howard's garden city movement, [10] [16] [17] it was laid out by Edward MacDougall's Queensboro Corporation in 1916 and began attracting residents after the arrival of the Flushing Line in 1917.
In 1996, it expanded to grades K–10 and moved into a permanent leased space on 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights, then became Renaissance Charter School, one of the first five charter schools in New York, in 2000. [8]
A picture of the crew, inclusive of Michael's brother, Jackie Jackson, and his wife and children—9-year-old twin sons Jaylen and River Jackson and daughter Brandi Jackson, 41—was posted on ...
The Queens Is The Future mural in Jackson Heights, Queens, by Eve Biddle and Joshua Frankel. Photo by Joshua Frankel. Queens is the Future is a mural created in 2007 by married artists Eve Biddle and Joshua Frankel. It is located on a handball court in the schoolyard of I.S. 145, a public middle school in Jackson Heights, Queens. The mural ...
Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, $5, $4 children 3-18; 1550 Lakeland Drive, Jackson; (601) 432-4500 or www.msagmuseum.org Mississippi Museum of Art at 380 S. Lamar Street, Jackson ...