Broad Channel, Queens The Broad Channel improve is depicted in yellow on the biggest island positioned inside the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge section.
The Broad Channel improve is depicted in yellow on the biggest island positioned inside the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge section.
Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.
It is situated in the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), which is the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay, with three thousand inhabitants.
5.3 Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department 6.1 Broad Channel Park Broad Channel, Queens in 1915 Broad Channel remained a parcel inside the town of Jamaica until the consolidation of New York City in 1898.
In 1915, the town/city leased the island to the Broad Channel Corporation, which in turn leased properties to private individuals for the evolution of summer bungalows and homes.
After the assembly of the Cross Bay Boulevard in 1923, Broad Channel underwent a surge in popularity.
In 1982, New York City granted Broad Channel inhabitants the right to purchase their property.
In October 2012, Broad Channel faced another mandatory evacuation; it sustained heavy damage from Hurricane Sandy, with widespread flooding affecting most homes in the area. In subsequent days, widespread prolonged power cuts and shortages of food and water were reported. Press reports pointed out that at least parts of the neighborhood were flooded from time to time by high tides.
The IND Rockaway Line has a subway station in Broad Channel, serving the A train and Rockaway Park Shuttle.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, some mapmakers have shown the streets of Broad Channel numbered along the same continuum found in the rest of Queens besides the Rockaways, with the numbers of "Streets" increasing from west to east, the numbers of "Avenues" increasing from north to south, etc. However, Broad Channel streets have always had their own numbering format, including "East" and "West" (in relation to Cross Bay Boulevard) prefixed "Roads" numbered north to south, autonomous of those used elsewhere in the borough.
Broad Channel has four bridges: the tolled, vehicular Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge to the south; the free, vehicular Joseph P.
Cross Bay Boulevard, the island's only through road, traverses the two vehicular bridges, both of which also carry bicycle and pedestrian traffic. Lying between Howard Beach and the Rockaway Peninsula, it is connected to those communities by these bridges, at either end of the island.
Following the assembly of the Cross Bay Parkway bridge in 1939, a drawbridge connecting Broad Channel with the Rockaway Peninsula, the island became easily accessible by car.
Addabbo Memorial Bridge joins Broad Channel to Howard Beach and the mainland.
Like all areas of New York City, Broad Channel is served by the New York City Department of Education.
Their mission is to document and preserve the history of Broad Channel, often referred to as the "Venice" of New York.
This event brings out the townspeople and folks from the encircling area to appreciate the collection, usually homed in the Broad Channel Public Library. Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department In 1907, this brigade was formally organized into the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Association under its first Chief, Edward H.
The association received their fire charter from the state of New York in 1917 and were known from then on as the Broad Channel Volunteers.
Added volunteer ambulance services to furnish first aid and ambulatory care to the inhabitants of Broad Channel.
341, to the Broad Channel Volunteers' quarters to assist in answering alarms on the island.
Over the years, the Broad Channel Volunteers have been in service, they have created a close working relationship with the small-town FDNY companies as well as the volunteer companies from Nassau & Suffolk Counties.
The Broad Channel Volunteers are also dues paying members of many organizations such as the Southern New York Volunteer Firemans Association, the Firemans Association of the State of New York, and along with the 9 other volunteer fire departments in the 5 boroughs of New York City, they are members of Volunteer Firemans Association of the City of New York.
In the late 1970s, The Broad Channel Junior Fire Department was organized to help train young teens in the aspects of the fire and EMS service as well as dispatching and clerical duties while still cleaning the firehouse and its apparatus.
Therefore, a replacement fire truck from Chanhassen, Minnesota, was loaned to the Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department. In addition, neighboring Minnesota suburbs sent resources, including extra boots and helmets from Victoria and Carver; four air monitors, one Jaws of Life apparatus, and two power generators from Chaska; and a truck with resources worth about $20,000 from the Sioux improve there. The Broad Channel Volunteers, Inc., is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that relies solely on door to door fundraising, grants from politicians and from the state, and since 1905 has been directed by 100% volunteers.
Broad Channel Park opened in May 1995, positioned at the southernmost end of Broad Channel, sits along Jamaica Bay.
This playground is titled in honor of Broad Channel improve activist Eugene Gray (1927 1973).
Gray later moved to Broad Channel and became involved in various neighborhood youth programs, including the Broad Channel Athletic Club, an organization for which he served as president.
A improve football coach for more than twenty years, Grey also helped to shape and maintain the Broad Channel football league and assisted in the creation of the small-town Teen Club, which provided safe recreational activities for the area's youth.
Before his death on September 14, 1973, Eugene Gray also supported the assembly of this site, the first adventure playground to be assembled in Broad Channel.
In recognition of his dedication to the playground's assembly and lifetime of work for the neighborhood's youth, the Broad Channel Civic Association and Queens Community Board 14 motioned to have the playground titled in Gray's honor.
In honor of Broad Channel's seafaring past, award-winning architect Richard Dattner incorporated a nautical fortress infamous into the park's wooden play equipment.
Heavy flooding wrecks Broad Channel island - Times Ledger, November 2, 2012 Broad Channel also abused by Hurricane Sandy - NYC, Queens in Context, November 3, 2012 Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012.
Table PL-P3 - A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011.
Broad Channel Historical Society a b "Fire Engine Gets a New Life in NYC; A Fire Engine from Minnesota Is on the Scene in New York's Queens Borough, Where Hurricane Sandy Demolished a Volunteer Fire Department's Trucks and Gear".
"Broad Channel Park".
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