IT’S no-frills dining at its finest in this restaurant on Laurel Hill Boulevard in 1938. Straight-backed wood seats, tables and checkered tablecloths in what was likely an Italian eatery. Within a few years, what was known as the Connecting Highway and is now part of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway would obliterate nearly everything on both sides of Laurel Hill Boulevard, which was once a bustling commercial strip but has now mostly been reduced to a BQE service road.
Laurel Hill Boulevard has its moments though, as is explained on this FNY page.
Photo by Somach Photo Co.
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1/28/23
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The tables are missing the empty Chianti bottles with the candles stuck in the neck
that was where everyone went right after paying respects to dead realtives in the cemetary
Reminiscent of a few in Astoria—-Half Moon and Pine Inn both along Ditmars Blvd.