1898. Queens County made coterminous with the Borough. Eastern portion of Old Queens County became Nassau County.

1898. The Borough of Queens is created out of the towns of Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, and the Rockaway peninsula as one of the five governmental subdivisions of Greater New York City. All Village Governments ceased.

1898. City government gradually absorbed volunteer fire companies: those of Long Island City in 1898, Flushing in 1908, Newtown in 1913, Jamaica in 1914, and most Eastern Queens communities in 1920s. Broad Channel, Hamilton Beach (in Howard Beach), Breezy Point, Rockaway Point and Roxbury still volunteer.

1898. St. Albans railroad station opened July 1:
In April, 1892, a N.Y. syndicate had laid out the Francis Farm and named it St. Albans.

1898. Bellerose (mostly in Nassau): Begun by Helen H. Marsh in 1897; railroad station opened in 1898.

1899. Flushing and Jamaica linked by trolley line.
Bathing Near Scenic Railway. Rockaway Beach, N.Y.
Bathing Near Scenic Railway. Rockaway Beach, N.Y. postcard, undated.
Chronology reprinted, with some modifications, from A Research Guide to the History of the Borough of Queens, New York City, by Jon A. Peterson, Editor, and Vincent F. Seyfried, Consultant, 1987. Photographs courtesy of the Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library. For more information about their collections, visit the Long Island Division’s web site.
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