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St. Michael's Playground

30 Ave. To 31 Ave. and Boody St., BQE

Queens

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?
This property was part of Newtown, one of the earliest European settlements (established in 1651) in what is now Queens, and it remained rural for the next couple of centuries. Established in 1852, the nearby St. Michael’s Cemetery is one of more than twenty cemeteries in Queens that came about after the State Rural Cemeteries Act (1847), which encouraged cemetery placement in the city’s suburbs.  

During the mid-nineteenth century, this plot of land was part of Catherine Wyckoff’s estate. While adjacent neighborhoods continued to expand streets and erect residential and small commercial buildings, this site remained largely undeveloped.    

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