This is a fascinating story which is best told as I walk a group from Flushing to Queens Village along the former right-of-way of the Central and Northside RR which connected Flushing to Garden City for a few years in the 1870′s. Garden City was founded by department store magnate Alexander Stewart who financed the railroad along with Conrad Poppenhusen of College Point.

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