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Reader Stories: Local History in Queens, New York

Are you passionate about history? Then you know that the Revolutionary War was fought in Queens, New York, and that a marker for this Battle of Long Island is in a yard of a house in the neighborhood of Briarwood. What do you know about local history in Queens? Please share. From the small to the big, there is history in every neighborhood. Upload a photo if you can!

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