Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1889.
From the record
“Sunnyside Gardens is a planned residential community and historic district in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City. Built between 1924 and 1928 by the City Housing Corporation, a limited-dividend company led by developer Alexander Bing, the 77-acre development was the first attempt to create a garden city in the United States, applying the planning principles of the English garden city movement of Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin.”
Wikipedia article Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 108 National Register listings published here for Queens County · listed in 1984 · category: District.
National Register reference number.84002919- 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 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
106 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18891995
Fires near this property
2,298 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 2,298 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside Gardens Historic District
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 624 acres in total. 147 started naturally. 135 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
1557
Smoking
156
Natural
147
Arson/incendiarism
135
Equipment and vehicle use
94
Misuse of fire by a minor
91
Debris and open burning
67
Recreation and ceremony
29
Power generation/transmission/distribution
8
Fireworks
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Other causes
1
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 federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside Gardens Historic District: 8 occurrences, 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Garnet, Gemstone, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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