![]() Apr 23 4:00PM --to-- 5:00PM Financial Literacy Series for Teens: Credit Cards & ScoresLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required This workshop with Cents Ability will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of using credit and will teach teens how to use and apply for credit cards. Service Credit will be given to all students who participate. | ||||||||||||||||||
![]() Apr 27 3:30PM --to-- 4:30PM Kid/Teen Board GamingLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Make friends and play board games! Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Apr 30 4:00PM --to-- 5:00PM I Can Make That: Savings BankLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Saving up for college? A new computer? Just keep losing fivers in the wash? Make and decorate a bank to stash your cash. Grades 7-12. |
![]() May 1 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM Teen Virtual Reality LabLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Come check out our new Oculus Rift! Try a virtual reality headset and sling webs, cast spells, explore outer space, and more! ***Ages 13 and up only. A personal release waiver must be signed by your parent/guardian in order to use the equipment.*** Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Jun 5 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM Teen Virtual Reality LabLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Come check out our new Oculus Rift! Try a virtual reality headset and sling webs, cast spells, explore outer space, and more! ***Ages 13 and up only. A personal release waiver must be signed by your parent/guardian in order to use the equipment.*** Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Jun 8 4:00PM --to-- 5:30PM Tabletop Games & ChessLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Learn to play weird new board and card games with Ms. Reed, play an old favorite, or challenge your friends to an epic chess battle. Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Jun 25 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM Anime ClubLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Watch the hottest anime with your friends on our Crunchyroll Premium account. Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Jul 17 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM Learn Coding With Scratch (Session 1)Location: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Registration required by phone or in person. Due to popular demand, we are offering a choice of sessions. Both sessions are the same; please only register for one. In this Music & Sound Coding club, students use the computer to play musical notes, create a music video, and build an interactive music display while learning how programming is used to create music. Bring your own laptop or use one of the library's. It is strongly recommended that you attend all four dates in a session. Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Jul 31 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM I Can Make ThatLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Why buy it when you can make it? Teen crafts for any skill level, plus materials to just mess around with. Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Aug 7 3:30PM --to-- 5:30PM Learn Coding With Scratch (Session 2)Location: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required Registration required by phone or in person. Due to popular demand, we are offering a choice of sessions. Both sessions are the same; please only register for one. Additional Program Dates/Locations This is a recurring program. If registration is required, you must register individually.Additional Dates
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![]() Aug 23 4:00PM --to-- 5:00PM Teen Any Book ClubLocation: Fresh Meadows Registration: Not required What did you read this summer? Meet up with other teens to share your thoughts on what you’ve read and hear from others. Please come prepared to talk about a book or graphic novel you’ve read recently (even if you didn’t like it!). |
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International Language Collections at the Fresh Meadows Community Library include:
Special Interest/Noteworthy Collections at the Fresh Meadows Community Library include:
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Child Care / Preschools | ||
Home Sweet Home Children School Incorporated 196-17 53rd Avenue Flushing NY , 11365 phone: (718) 357-9738 | Jack & Jill Nursery School II 68-05 Fresh Meadow Lane Flushing NY , 11365 phone: (718) 939-8687 |
Community Board | ||
Community Board #8 197-15 Hillside Avenue Hollis NY , 11423 phone: (718) 264-7895 fax: 718) 264-7910 |
Community Organizations & Services | ||
Association for Children for Enforcement of Support (ACES) Regularly scheduled meetings are held at Fresh Meadows Branch P.O. Box 650677 Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (877) 598-4837 | Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association 6116 182nd Street Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 | |
Jamaica Estates Association P.O. Box 660086 Flushing NY , 11366 phone: (718) 657-2224 | West Cunningham Park Civic Association 73-59 192nd Street Fresh Meadows NY , 11366 phone: (718) 468-4298 |
Fire Department | ||
Engine 299 Ladder 152 61-20 Utopia Pkway Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 |
Local Hospitals | ||
Local Newspapers | ||
Parks and Playgrounds | ||
Police Department | ||
Post Office | ||
Fresh Meadows Post Office 193-04 Horace Harding Expressway Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (800) 275-8777 fax: (718) 454-1100 |
Private / Parochial Schools | ||
Herbert G. Birch School for Exceptional Children (Special Education) 71-64 168th Street Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 591-8100 | Highland Elementary School (K-8) 193-10 Peck Avenue Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 357-4747 | |
Saint Francis Preparatory School (9-12) 6100 Francis Lewis Blvd. Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 423-8810 |
Public Elementary Schools | ||
P.S. 4 @ P.S. 179 (Special Education) 196-25 Peck Avenue Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 264-0916 | P.S. 14 Annex @ P.S. 179 196-25 Peck Avenue Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 | |
P.S. 162 John Golden School (K-5) 201-02 53rd Avenue Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 423-8621 fax: (718) 423-8647 | P.S. 177 @ William Prince (Special Education) 56-37 188th Street Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 357-4650 | P.S. 224 @ P.S. 26 195-02 69th Avenue Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 464-4396 |
P.S. 811 CMHC @ Francis Lewis H.S. 58-20 Utopia Pkwy. Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 357-0535 |
Public High Schools | ||
Francis Lewis High School (9-12) 58-20 Utopia Parkway Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 281-8200 fax: |
Public Intermediate / Junior High Schools | ||
J.H.S. 216 George J. Ryan Middle School (5-8) 64-20 175th Street Fresh Meadows NY , 11365 phone: (718) 358-2005 |
Senior Centers | ||
BFFY – Alzheimer’s Day Care 157-16 65th Avenue Flushing NY , 11365 phone: (718) 358-3541 fax: (718) 691-712 |
Elected Officials | |
NYC Council Hon. Barry Grodenchik M23@council.nyc.gov | |
District Office Address 73-03 Bell Boulevard Oakland Gardens NY , 11364 phone: (718) 468-0137 fax: (718) 468-0178 | Manhattan Office 250 Broadway, Suite 1744 New York NY , 10007 phone: (212) 788-7075 fax: (212) 608-6382 |
NYS Assembly Hon. Nily D. Rozic RozicN@nyassembly.gov | |
District Office 159-16 Union Turnpike, Suite 210 Flushing NY , 11366 phone: (718) 820-0241 fax: (718) 820-0414 | Albany Office LOB, Room 547 Albany NY , 12248 phone: (518) 455-5172 fax: (518) 455-5479 |
NYS Senate Hon. Toby Ann Stavisky Stavisky@nysenate.gov | |
District Office 142-29 37th Avenue, Suite 1 Flushing NY, 11354 phone: (718) 445-0004 fax: (718) 445-8398 | Albany Office Room 706, Legislative Office Building Albany NY, 12247 phone: (518) 455-3461 fax: (518) 426-6857 |
US Congress Hon. Grace Meng | |
District Office Address 40-13 159th Street, Suite A Flushing NY, 11358 phone: (718) 445-7860 fax: (718) 445-7868 | Legislative Office 1317 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC, 20515 phone: (202) 225-2601 fax: (202) 225-1589 |
Boro President Hon. Melinda Katz Info@queensbp.org | |
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Mayor Hon. Bill de Blasio | |
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For over 200 years, from the 1700s through the 1900s, the Fresh Meadows area was known as “Black Stump”, allegedly because its various large farms were separated for identification purposes by rows of black stumps. In Colonial times only two roads crossed the area: Black Stump Road which is now 73rd Avenue, and Fresh Meadows Lane which was named for the fresh water meadows through which it ran. At the juncture of the two roads was the heart of “Black Stump”. The British Army of occupation as well as Benedict Arnold walked these roads and were housed on the farms during the American Revolution. Colonial references to the area are few; however it is known that there was a tavern named Ryerson’s Inn, located roughly on the south-west corner of 74th Avenue and Utopia Parkway. In November of 1933, the colonial building that had been Ryerson’s Inn was demolished by its current owners: the Klein Family.
Dating back to the 1800s, the Black Stump School, old District #4 of Flushing Town, was located in the area which is now a small park at Utopia Parkway and 73rd Avenue. The Black Stump School was a one-room wood frame country schoolhouse, but it educated many children in the area. During the winter only 10-15 attended, but summer enrollment reached as many as 50 children. After the school was abandoned it became the headquarters of Black Stump Hook, Ladder and Bucket Co. #1 which fought farm fires in the area until 1913.
Throughout the 19th century, 75th Avenue was the only east-west road running between Utopia Parkway and Parsons Blvd. It was known by two names: “Quarrelsome Lane” and “Hellfire Lane”. Unfortunately the origins of these names have since been forgotten.
About 1923, a Brooklyn sportsman, Benjamin C. Ribman, opened the Fresh Meadows Country Club. The 141-acre country club hosted US Golf Opens and operated until 1946 when it was sold to The New York Life Insurance Company. The company created the Fresh Meadows Housing Development, a post World War II project and model community to for returning WWII soldiers and their families. The development consisted of row houses and high-rise buildings, a shopping center, a theater, a public library and schools. Opened in 1949, the Fresh Meadows Housing Development was at the time hailed by community planner Lewis Mumford as “perhaps the most positive and exhilarating example of large-scale community planning in the country”.
The Fresh Meadows Housing Development still stands and most of the area has been designated a Special Planned Community Preservation District by New York City. This designation protects the unique character of well-planned communities. These communities characteristically have large landscaped open spaces and a superior relationship of buildings, open spaces, commercial uses, and pedestrian and vehicular circulation.
In November, 2003, Fresh Meadows lost its final link to its early farmland history. The Klein Farm, dating back to 1895 and the last of the working farms in the Fresh Meadows area, was sold to real estate developers. It had been one of the remaining four farms left in New York City, three of which are still located in Queens.
References:
Fanelli, James, “Residents, Pols Oppose Klein Farm Sale,” Queens Courier, 18 March 2004.
Jackson, Kenneth T. ed., The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University, 1995, 441.
Robinson, Eric P. Fresh Meadows. Online. Internet. Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens. August 23, 2005. http://www.queenschamber.org/QueensInfo/NeighborhoodPages/freshmeadows.html
On November 1st 1949 the first Fresh Meadows Library opened to the public. Its storefront quarters were provided by The New York Life Insurance Company within the Fresh Meadows Housing Development.
On September 23rd, 1958 the first Queens Borough Library built by the Fresh Meadows Housing Development was opened for service.
In August of 1997, the library was relocated to a temporary store front area while the library underwent a 600 sq. ft expansion as well as interior renovations.
In May of 1998 the temporary library space was closed and the materials were relocated to the new Fresh Meadows library.
On May 3rd 2000, the formal reopening ceremony was held at the newly renovated and expanded building. Among the scheduled speakers were Borough President Claire Schulman, City Councilman Sheldon S. Leffler, Library Director Gary E. Strong, and Queens Library Board of Trustees President Patricia Flynn.
Seyfried, Vincent. “Notes on Local Historical Sites”. Origin Unknown