University+Place+-+Woodhaven+In+The+Future



Hotels and restaurants were very common along University Place, now 95th Avenue. Well over a hundred years ago, an artist used Park Place and University Place (now 88th Street and 95th Avenue) as the spot to depict what Woodhaven of the future would look like. The buildings in the picture are still standing and very recognizable, though they are now private houses instead of hotels and restaurants (witness all of the awnings visible in the distance).

The building on the south side of 95th Avenue was The Eagle Hotel, and directly across the street was a bakery. The artist didn't get a lot right about the future, but what he could never have imagined was all of these hotels and businesses dying and becoming regular housing.

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