Built in 1911 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Congregation Tifereth Israel is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Corona section of Queens, in New York City, New York, in the United States. It was founded by Ashkenazi Jews who had moved to Queens from Manhattan's Lower East Side.”
Wikipedia article Congregation Tifereth Israel (Queens), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 2002 · category: Building · built in 1911, Gothic Revival.
National Register reference number.02001357- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1889 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
105 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891994
Fires near this property
2,320 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,320 fires within 5 miles of Congregation Tifereth Israel
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. 139 started naturally. 101 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1647
Smoking
154
Natural
139
Arson/incendiarism
101
Misuse of fire by a minor
84
Equipment and vehicle use
77
Debris and open burning
61
Recreation and ceremony
43
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Corona, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 12 flash flood, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
An unidentified victim was found on the Grand Central Parkway near LaGuardia Airport inside a burned out car that had been rear ended. The fatality is believed to be flood related.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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