Glen Oaks Oval

74 Ave., 260 St.

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?
Like much of eastern Queens, this area remained rural farmland through the 19th century. The area was once part of Flushing and home to famous industrialist and railroad developer William K. Vanderbilt’s estate, which was bought in 1923 by the Glen Oaks golf club. In 1944, Gross-Morton Company, purchased 175 acres of land nearby along Union Turnpike, and decided to build a colonial-style apartment complex with the help of a $24 million loan from the Federal Housing Authority.

The two-story buildings that surround Glen Oaks Oval on all sides comprise the Glen Oaks Village cooperative residential community, which took its name from the surrounding neighborhood. Of the 2,864 units, many were rented by veterans of World War II.

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