Four roads converge at Astoria Square on the eastern edge of old Astoria Village, first established by fur merchant Stephen Ailing Halsey in 1839, who laid out streets and built the first structures in the area surrounding Hallett’s Cove in northwest Queens. Astoria was named for a man who apparently never set foot in it. […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2017/02/l-gally-furniture-astoria/
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