Jacob Riis Park

Jacob Riis Park

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Jacob Riis Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, and managed by the...

Malcolm Smith

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Malcolm Smith is an African-American member of the New York State Senate representing the 14th Senate district in Southeast Queens. The district...

Richard Cornell

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Richard Cornell was an English Quaker ironmaster and resident of Long Island who is generally considered the first European settler on the Rockaway...

Alfred H. Bellot

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Alfred H. Bellot was a historian whose "History of the Rockaways from the Year 1685 to 1917", published in 1918, was probably the definitive...
Frederick J. Lancaster

Frederick J. Lancaster

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Frederick J. Lancaster was a land developer who in 1892, with a group of investors, founded the community of Edgemere, on the Rockaway Peninsula in...

Tackapousha

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Tackapousha was a Native American chief who was the first person to sell land in the Rockaway Peninsula to a person of European background when he...

Louis A. Heinsheimer

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Louis A. Heinsheimer (b. ? - 1910), was a partner in the investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from 1894 to 1909. Heinsheimer was the nephew...