The tremendous four motored airliner, carrying nine passengers and 5,260 pounds of cargo, lifts from the water, circles once, and points east across Queens.

It is scheduled to arrive at Lisbon, Portugal, in 26 hours.

Highly developed construction methods enabled the rapid building of the double tunnel. Huge fans in the ventilation towers at each end brought fresh air into the tunnel.

The first toll was 25 cents for the two-axle automobile. 4.4 million vehicles traversed the tunnels in its first year.

In 1941, there were 361,517 families; in 1930 there were only 280,064.

He said, “places are being torn down and unless something is done to mark these sites, coming generations will be totally unaware of the historical importance of their neighborhoods. Many landmarks and traditions that should not be lost to America are to be found in the Newtown section.”

Unfortunately, MacMonnies, the sculptor, carved it with the hero trampling a woman underfoot–a marble foot crushes her neck.

Banished from City Hall Park, the city places it in front of the Queens Borough Hall with official blessing but without general public approval. About 120 people, mostly Borough Hall employees, are on hand for the dedication.

The duo released an album, ‘Wednesday Morning, 3 AM,’ in 1964, but they did not really become famous until 1966, when a song (The Sounds of Silence) from that album became very popular. Simon and Garfunkel also contributed extensively to the 1968 film The Graduate.

Simon pursued solo projects after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water in 1970. Both Simon and Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1990.

In 1963, the duo changed the name of the group to Simon and Garfunkel and released their first album, ‘Wednesday Morning, 3 A M,’ in 1964. It was not a critical success, but a song from the album, The Sounds of Silence, reached #1 on the charts.

They went on to release five studio albums and become one of the most popular groups of the 1960’s.

Mr. Scorsese's often unconventional and peculiar views of New York City and the surrounding areas are depicted in his films.

The most memorable of these representations are in the films Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and Goodfellas (1990). Other renowned Scorsese movies are New York, New York; Raging Bull; The King of Comedy; the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ; and most recently, Gangs of New York.

A true New Yorker, many of Mr. Scorsese's films have captured images of a New York long gone.

Those conditions had led to an outbreak of amoebic dysentery, which had killed nine patients. In late February, one patient had beaten another patient to death.

At the same time, Queens District Attorney Charles F. Sullivan brought these matters before a grand jury. It would be the third time in 8 years that a grand jury had looked into the affairs of Creedmoor.

A 1935 investigation revealed that there were 15 violent deaths in 12 months. A 1939 report stated that patients were brutally beaten. Initial findings of the probe disclosed that attendants at Creedmoor were making only $54 a month and that, out of the normal attendant staff of 500, there were 157 vacancies.

After signing for an unheard of $400,000 as rookie with AFL's NY Jets in 1965, his best season came in 1967, when he completed 258 passes for 4,007 yards and 26 touchdowns at Shea Stadium, the then home of the Jets.

“Broadway Joe” was inducted into the Pro-Football Hall of Fame in 1985.

All the dramatics that mark the funerals of big time gangsters are absent. There are no coaches of flowers, $5,000 gold coffin, or long list of underworld mourners.

LaGuardia also announced that the city had already made plans for a temporary administration building to be followed by a permanent administration building with ticket offices and passenger accommodations. The airport opened to commercial traffic in 1948.

Idelwild would be renamed as Kennedy Airport in 1963.

Pat, an actor”s agent, married the heiress, whose fortune was estimated at $ 4.5 million, on December 28, 1941.

DiCicco, the “Astoria Broccoli King’s” son, is planning to become a motion picture producer.

Mrs. DiCicco assumes her maiden name, Gloria Vanderbilt.

The “G” zone restriction still awaited approval by the Board of Estimate, but it would restrict construction in the area to one-family dwellings except in a small section set aside for retail stores need to serve the community. Signers of the petition said they anticipated an increase in the construction of multiple dwellings and apartment houses after the war, and asked for the restrictions to preserve the small-homes character of the neighborhood.

A survey conducted by Con Edison indicated that Queens really was “the borough of home owners.” The survey showed that Queens had a total of 132,889 homes, or 41.1 percent of the city’s aggregate owner-occupied dwellings. Furthermore, Queens had the smallest percentage of renters, 63.3 percent, of the five boroughs. In Manhattan for example, 98.8 percent of families paid rent.

The survey also showed that the population of Queens had grown to 1,329,900 in 1943, from 152,999 in 1900, and that 21.3 percent of county residents were foreign born.

The city was Eisenhower’s for the asking, the third person ever to receive its keys. The others being Admiral Dewey, upon his return from Manila Bay and General John J. Pershing, the victorious commander of World War I.

There was a brisk 15-minute pageant of greeting at the airport, then the official party left on a 28-mile parade that wound up at City Hall, with ticker tape canyon on the last lap. Thousands upon thousands lined the route.

After the City Hall ceremony, with 550 wounded soldiers, sitting in a special box, among the spectators, the General went to Gracie Mansion for lunch with the Mayor. The Mayor described the lunch as “potluck,” since it was meatless Tuesday.

Next on the program was a ball game, the Giants against the Braves, and then dinner at the Waldorf at $18 a plate for some 1,500 guests.

Alger, who was trained as a minister, left a comfortable life of teaching and moved to New York in 1866. There he encountered the ‘street urchin’, a familiar figure of the time. They were an army of 60,000 neglected and abandoned kids that were the byproduct of families torn apart by immigration and the Civil War. He decided his life’s work was to ease their plight though publicizing their lives.

In 1877 Alger befriended Downie, then an orphaned newsboy living in the streets, and wrote about the youngster’s adventures in a series of books. Although famous in his time, Downie never got rich on the wildly popular series about his life as he averaged only $100 month in royalties. The young lad grew up, married, fathered children, and was a 30-year veteran of the New York Police Department. He retired and spent his last years at 23-12 121 Street, College Point. Downie died in Flushing, aged 78, in December 1945.

Although almost all of Alger’s books are out of print, and his ‘strive and succeed’ philosophy is considered antique by today’s standards, a ‘Horatio Alger’ has passed into our language as synonymous of someone, usually a young boy, who succeeds in life despite adversity.

Critics regard Alger’s sketches of Downie as ‘Ragged Dick’ as a phenomenally successful experiment in social reform which encouraged generations of poor kids to take advantage of America’s social mobility. Late in life Alger also later inspired the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries.

Son of major Queens real estate developer Fred Trump, Donald made a name of himself with a billion-dollar empire which included more than 24,000 rental and co-op apartments, a football team, an airline, and casinos in Atlantic City.

The jet-setter once quipped, “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”

Fiorello, who earned a law degree from NYU, served in WWI. He lost a campaign for a House seat in 1914 but won in 1917. He was elected again in 1922 for five consecutive terms.

LaGuardia lost in his bid for the mayor of New York City in 1929, yet was elected the city's 99th mayor from 1934 to 1945, becoming the city's first three-term mayor since the consolidation of the five boroughs into greater New York in 1898.

He and Robert Moses were instrumental in opening the Interboro Parkway, the Triborough Bridge, the Belt Parkway, and the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.

LaGuardia Community College in LIC and LaGuardia Airport are named after him.

Bernadette's mother was the one who started her on the road to show business, securing a place for Bernadette on the show “Juvenile Jury” when she was just three and a half years old.

Her mother suggested she changed her professional name from Lazzara to Peters at age nine to broaden her appeal. The name 'Peters' came from her father’s first name.

Acknowledged as one of the Great White Way's natural wonders, Bernadette Peters is a performer of unparalleled versatility on stage, film and television.

A quote: “You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?”

Next of kin were notified in advance of the arrival of the vessel. They had the choice of having the remains returned to the United States for burial in a private or national cemetery or having interment in a permanent American military cemetery overseas.

The train, officially known as The Spirit of ’76, was gleaming white with red and blue stripes. It had traveled 35,779 miles, the longest train tour in history.

Since its first stop in Philadelphia on Constitution Day, 1947, it had been in every state in the union. Queens was the 318th stop on its journey.

About 22,955 school children and adults visited the train during its stay in Flushing. In its entire journey, over 3,255,000 Americans had visited the train.

The Star-Journal reported that Protestants and Jews joined Catholics from all the 88 parishes in Queens in a display of borough-wide unity.

Placards read “We Protest Kangaroo Trials”, “Communists Veto God”, and “It CAN happen here.”