Nostalgic Area Pictures December 8, 2016 by dweisbord 0 1909 new Floral Park station 1938 Bellerose House award ad (249 St. house built just after Church was built) 1908 Floral Pk – 1st Electric Train to Hempstead Jamaica Ave widening 2 to 4 lanes (Bldgs moved back 30’) Temporary storefront for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 1862 LIRR Timetable with stops at Queens (Village) & (New) Hyde Park (too early for Bellerose) 1922 Springfield Rd. Queens Village 1932 Braddock Ave. facing west Orig. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 1931-1938 (demolished for Cross Island Parkway) Creedmoor Rifle Range (Nat’l Rifle Association, 1873 until 1890s sale to NYS; 1908- land to Hospital Dept. for Creedmoor Hospital) Hinsdale Depot at west side of Little Neck Pkwy near Jamaica Ave. (along tracks that much later became known as “Creedmoor spur”) 1924 aerial view Future sites of SGTG properties (*) [horizontal line is LIRR spur] New 1932 spur bridge over Jamaica Ave. NRA site left center; Jericho Tpke at bottom (current streets superimposed over old map) 1934 interior of neighboring Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 1905 Bellerose Adriance Farmhouse (recent photo of Creedmoor farmhouse, built circa 1772; farm since 1697) 1931 Railroad spur (rear of photo) bisecting an unknown Bellerose street Spur view SE vic. Little Neck Pkwy Original spur bridge over Jamaica Ave. at Little Neck Pkwy