Dear Editor:

I wish to commend you on your excellent 47th Anniversary Edition: “Roar into the ’20s.”

The article “Queens’ first garden cities,” including the Towers complex, was especially of interest to me since I have friends living there now.

I am a Jackson Heights product. My family moved there in 1939, when I was 10 years old. We lived on 81st Street and 35th Avenue, adjacent to the Queensboro Greystone Apartments. My father had a fur store, Haber’s Fur Shop, at 37th Avenue and 81st Street, from 1939 to 1957. I remember the adjacent stores: Roxy Beauty Parlor, Kurman’s Book Store, Field’s Department Store, Edison’s Coffee Shop, Richie’s Pharmacy, where I worked as a delivery boy, Jahn’s Ice Cream Parlor and many others.

Before World War II, Jackson Heights had vacant lots where we

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