Queens Borough Hall
The Queens Borough Hall is a public building in Queens , New York and the seat of the Borough President of the district. There are also other city administration offices in the building. Borough Hall is located in Kew Gardens between Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike.
Designed during the Great Depression and completed in 1940, the building also contained a post office and a traffic court in the first few years after it opened, as the architects wanted to make it the center of civil life in Queens. After elevators were removed from the construction plans, construction cost a total of around $ 1,648,000 and was completed in nine months from March to November 1940. In the same year, the building received a design award from the Queens Chamber of Commerce .
The 176-meter-long, four-story Borough Hall was built in a classic brick style and designed by William Gehron and Andrew J. Thomas. It was opened on December 4, 1940 by then New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia . The statue “Civic Virtue” by Frederick William MacMonnies has been in front of the building since 1941 , and in 2001 a discarded New York City subway car of the type “R33” was placed in front of the building.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 49 ″ N , 73 ° 49 ′ 41 ″ W.