One Room Schoolhouse Park
By 1910, the expanding needs of immigrant populations and the reform movement that created the public education system had rendered one-room schoolhouses obsolete. The schoolhouse closed in 1925, but a temporary school building was still in use at the site when Parks acquired the .14-acre property from the Board of Education in 1934. Increased population in the neighborhood necessitated the construction of a new playground that opened to the public in December 1935. Subsequent decades saw the playground transformed into a sitting area. In 2015, the City Council allocated funding for the restoration of this park. The redesign of the park will commence following informational sessions to incorporate public input on the park’s features. Work on the renovation started in 2019.
References
- ^ "Queens Historical Society Newsletter". Fall 1996.
- ^ "City's Smallest Schoolhouse Doomed". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 28, 1910.
- ^ Erickson, Charles (November 30, 2004). "Rekindling Memories". Newsday.
- ^ Honan, Katie (July 17, 2015). "Park at Site of Last 1-Room Schoolhouse in Queens Gets $400K Boost". DNAinfo. Archived from the original on 2015-07-22.
- ^ O'Brien, Shane (September 25, 2019). "Revamp of One Room Schoolhouse Park Begins, Work to be Done by Winter". Jackson Heights Post. Retrieved 2020-06-08.