1932. Great Depression ended the boom in Queens.

1932. Serviceable airfields in Queens include: Grand Central Air Terminal, Glenn-Curtis Airport, Jamaica Sea Airport and Flushing Airport.

1933. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated. The New Deal Era begins.

1933. Grand Central Parkway opened from Kew Gardens to Nassau County line, connecting with Northern State Parkway in Nassau.

1935. Interboro Parkway opened, connecting Pennsylvania Avenue in Brooklyn to Kew Gardens.

1936. Triborough Bridge opened. First planned in 1916. Construction began in 1929 and resumed in 1932 after a two-year lapse. Completed as a Robert Moses, Public Works Administration project.

1936. Grand Central Parkway extension opened from Kew Gardens to Triborough bridge, the last link in a city to Long Island parkway system.

1937. Queens College opened for registration as a four-year college with 400 students, a staff of 56, and Paul Klapper as first president. Utilized site and buildings of a reform school for truant boys operated since 1909 by the N.Y.C. Board of Education.

1939. Bronx-Whitestone Bridge opened.

1939. LaGuardia Airport officially opened. Built on extensive landfill at North Beach between Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay.

1939-40. New York World’s Fair opened for two years at the Flushing Meadows-Corona. To create the site, an immense tidal marsh, one and one half times as large as Central Park, was filled, beginning in 1936 with dirt from subway excavations and garbage and ash from Brooklyn, much of it already dumped there since 1914 by the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company. This dump, made famous by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby as the “valley of ashes,” included one heap ninety feet high, known as Mount Corona.