Queens Borough Hall

The Queens Borough Hall is a public building in Queens, New York and the seat of the Borough Presidents of the district, Helen Marshall. In addition, the building houses several other municipal offices. The Borough Hall is located in the Kew Gardens between Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike.

The entworfenene during the Great Depression and completed in 1940, the building also contained in the first years after the opening of a post office and a traffic court, as it was the architects important to make it the center of civic life in Queens. Following the deletion of elevators in the building plans of the building cost a total of about 1.648 million U.S. dollars and was completed from March to November 1940 within nine months. That same year, the building received a design award of the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

The 176 meter long, four-story Borough Hall was built in the classic brick style and designed by William Gehron and Andrew J. Thomas. On December 4, 1940, was opened by the then Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia New York. Since 1941, the statue " Civic Virtue " by Frederick William MacMonnies in front of the building, in 2001 also became a decommissioned New York City subway cars of the type " R33 " placed in front of the building.