For profiles of the towns and villages of Long Island, including Brooklyn and Queens, have a look at the Long Island Newsday website history section - link at my page http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/links.html David Minor >The Encyclopedia of New York City indicates Astoria was incorporated in >1839 (p. 968) and Long Island City incorporated in 1870 (p. 691). I >don't think the other neighborhoods in Queens became villages; the towns >of Flushing, Jamaica, and Maspeth/Newtown, of course, date back to the >1640s and 1650s. >Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Pittsford, New York 716 264-0423 [log in to unmask] To be put on the mailing list for the weekly TimeMaster radio scripts, as well as news of updates to my homepage, e-mail me at the address above. http://home.eznet.net/~dminor includes NYNY, a series of timelines covering New York City and State, from approximately 1,100,000,000 BC to 1990 AD. "I would undertake to supply your demands if your generosity is equal to them." -John Bartram, U. S. naturalist