Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

1940s Tax Department photographs

Collection REC-0040
Abstract: This collection contains photographs of real estate parcels in the five boroughs of New York City, dated between 1939-1951, with the bulk of the images dating from 1939-1941. These photographs were part of a new property card system for assessing real property tax in the city, carried out by the Works Project Administration (WPA) and the New York City Tax Department. Although photographs were taken of most extant properties at the time, some tax-exempt buildings, parcels with vacant lots or...
Dates: 1939-1951; bulk 1939-1941

Alice Crimmins closed case files

Collection REC-0065
Abstract: On July 14, 1965, Eddie Jr. and Alice Marie Crimmins disappeared from their home, later to be found murdered. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, became the number one suspect in their death. This collection contains the Queens County District Attorney’s investigative files into the crime, which were used to indict, and eventually convict, Alice Crimmins for the crime.
Dates: 1964-1971

New York City historical vital records

Collection REC-0051
Abstract: This collection consists of historical vital records created and/or maintained by the City of New York, and historical vital records created and/or maintained by municipalities that were once located within the boundaries of the present-day City of New York that were dissolved or annexed prior to January 1, 1898. These former towns were located in Kings, Queens, Richmond, and Westchester counties. Types of records in this collection are primarily birth, marriage, and death registers,...
Dates: 1760-1949; bulk 1847-1949

Old Town Records

Collection MSS-0004
Abstract: Before the creation of Greater New York on January 1, 1898, the counties bordering New York County (which is coterminous with New York City)—Kings, Queens, Richmond, and Westchester Counties—were comprised of municipalities (villages, towns, cities), some of which date back to the early days of Dutch and English colonization of Lenapehoking (Lënapehòkink in Unami), the ancestral homeland of the Lenape. This collection includes records created and/or maintained by these municipalities before...
Dates: circa 1630-1943; bulk 1656-1898