Rego Park Jewish Center

97-30 Queens Boulevard | also 64-75 Saunders Street | Rego Park | built 1956

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1948
Frank Grad & Sons finish the Streamline Moderne Rego Park Jewish Center with a mosaic by A. Raymond Katz
The Conservative congregation's building was completed in 1948 to designs by the firm Frank Grad & Sons, in the Art Deco Streamline Moderne style. Its facade carries a mosaic by the Hungarian-born artist A. Raymond Katz. The building appears on the National Register of Historic Places as well as the state's own register.
Source: Wikipedia
2026
May
Vandals mark the synagogue with antisemitic graffiti and swastikas in a Rego Park and Forest Hills spree
In May 2026 the Rego Park Jewish Center was among the targets of a vandalism spree that left antisemitic graffiti and swastikas across Rego Park and Forest Hills, also hitting Congregation Machane Chodosh, homes, businesses and cars. Governor Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani were among the officials who condemned the attacks as hate crimes.
Source: Wikipedia

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