Stride StoriesRunning tour · queens
Marathon Course: Queens and First Avenue
5.7 mi run
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The stories on this route
MoMA PS1
Look at the red-brick school on Jackson Avenue: arched windows, old school lettering. It dates from 1892, and it was Long Island City's first school until 1963. Then the school closed for low attendance, and the building became a warehouse.
Queensboro Bridge, Queens approach
Look up at the steel rising overhead. The long spans reach out toward Roosevelt Island, which gives the piers their footing.
Bridgemarket and the Guastavino vaults under the Queensboro Bridge
Look at the big arched openings at the base of the bridge. Behind them is a hall under the Manhattan approach, roughly 120 by 270 feet. The ceiling reaches 60 feet at its highest point.
City and Suburban Homes' First Avenue Estate
Look at the long blocks of brick and limestone with the tall windows of the light courts. This is the City and Suburban Homes First Avenue Estate, built between 1898 and 1915.
Thomas Jefferson Park and its 1936 WPA pool
Look at the long, low brick bath house with its bands of windows. The park opened in 1905 to give organized play to the children of the crowded tenement district then known as Little Italy. In 1911, it opened a children's farm garden with 1,008 plots for growing flowers and vegetables.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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