Queens Fire Alarm Telegraph Station
83-98 Woodhaven Boulevard | also 83-98 Forest Parkway | Forest Park | built 1931
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1929
The Fire Alarm Telegraph Station goes up at the southern edge of Forest Park
The Landmarks Preservation Commission dates the Fire Alarm Telegraph Station to 1929. It stands at the corner of Woodhaven Boulevard and Park Lane, on the park's southern edge, and is marked by an octagonal tower. Woodhaven Boulevard splits Forest Park in two, with woods to the east and the golf course, greenhouses, band shell and carousel to the west.
“…at the corner of Woodhaven Boulevard and Park Lane, is the Fire Alarm Telegraph Station (1929), with its octagonal tower.”
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