We've looked at some very old photos of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, and now it's time to revisit a Queens you most likely never knew. From the War Gardens in 1918 to a newspaper in 1903 declaring Jamaica Bay our own Venice to the Planters Peanut Warehouse (which fine, maybe you've saw in your lifetime).
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