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Place Name
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Ozone Park
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Place Status (Type)
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borough
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Location
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New York, United States, North America
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Latitude
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40°41'N
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Longitude
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73°51'W
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Ozone Park
, S central section of borough of Queens, N.Y. city,
SE N.Y., S of Atlantic Ave., NW of JFK Internatl. Airport, S of
Woodhaven, a community from which it is virtually inseparable, both
historically and culturally; 40°41'N 73°51'W. Both Ozone Park and
Woodhaven began in June 1882 as the brainchild of Benjamin Hitchcock
and Charles Denton, 2 real-estate developers. The idea, popular during
the 1880s and 1890s, was to build 9 “parks” that could be pastoral
residential areas for people who wanted to escape the older, crowded
dists. of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Ozone Park and Woodhaven
flourished during the 1920s; though residential, they also attracted
some light mfg. (pipes, hosiery, hats, corsets, and ice cream). Today
the 2 communities are quiet, residential neighborhoods of unvarying
frame and brick houses. The city's only racetrack, Aqueduct (“The
Big A”), is here.
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