Forgotten NY: Spotlight on Ravenswood

The last of Ravenswood’s farmhouses was torn down last year to make way for a development, but Forgotten NY’s latest expose shows there’s plenty of other historical goodies to merit a look around the Queens neighborhood. (We’re primarily familiar with the area because it’s the site of the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Garden.) In what is now parkland, original mid-1800’s waterfront mansions were gradually replaced by manufacturing facilities over the course of the last century. Kevin ventures a guess that the brick house on 12th Street(pictured) hasn’t been touched since the 1940s. He also points out that the old Sohmer Piano factory at Jamaica Avenue is currently the subject of a struggle between the preservationists and the current owners. We’re hungry for some more pictures…Have any of the photobloggers covered this area?
Ravenswood [Forgotten NY]