General Slocum Disaster Memorial
General Slocum Disaster Memorial is a monument in Queens, New York. General Slocum Disaster Memorial is situated nearby to United States Post Office Middle Village Station, as well as near the park Glendale Playground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monument
- Description: Memorial and mass grave in Queens, New York City
- Inscription: “Burning of the Steamship Gen Slocum on the East River June 15 1904 in which 1020 lives were lost.”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station and Joseph F Mafera Park.
Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station
Metro station
Photo: Aio Eo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station is a terminal station of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the intersection of Metropolitan Avenue and Rentar Plaza in the neighborhood of Middle Village, Queens. Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue station is situated 2,500 feet west of General Slocum Disaster Memorial.
Joseph F Mafera Park
Park
Mafera Park is a park in Queens, New York City, United States. It is approximately 5.4 acres in size, located adjacent to the New York City Subway's Fresh Pond Yard and close to the Fresh Pond Junction between the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge and Lower Montauk branches.
Christ the King Regional High School
School
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Christ the King Regional High School is a co-educational, college preparatory, Catholic high school for grades 9–12 located in Middle Village, Queens, New York, United States and established in 1962. Christ the King Regional High School is situated 2,100 feet west of General Slocum Disaster Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glendale and Middle Village.
Glendale
Neighborhood
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Glendale is a neighborhood in the west-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Forest Hills to the east, Ridgewood to the west, Woodhaven to the south, and Middle Village to the north.
Middle Village
Neighborhood
Photo: Vernon Pearson, Public domain.
Middle Village is a neighborhood in the central section of the borough of Queens, New York City, bounded to the north by the Long Island Expressway, to the east by Woodhaven Boulevard, to the south by Cooper Avenue and the former LIRR Montauk Branch railroad tracks, and to the west by Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Fresh Pond Junction
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Fresh Pond Junction is a freight yard in the Ridgewood and Glendale neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. It is operated by the New York & Atlantic Railway, which serves Long Island using tracks owned by the Long Island Rail Road.
General Slocum Disaster Memorial
- Categories: memorial and historic site
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.70924° or 40° 42′ 33″ northLongitude
-73.8812° or 73° 52′ 52″ westOpen location code
87G8P459+MGOpenStreetMap ID
node 12839367768OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q120643294
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Highlights include United States Post Office Middle Village Station and Glendale Playground.
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