Queens Memory Project

[1] Materials in the archive are made accessible to the public through a website which contains oral history interviews and photographs documenting the lives of Queens residents.

The stories and images are presented alongside digitized historical photographs, maps, news clippings and other archival records.

The goal of the project is to allow visitors to the site to view otherwise scattered archival materials and personal stories in a searchable database of collective memory representing the borough of Queens.

The website for the Queens Memory Project was later developed by software firm Whirl-i-Gig and officially launched to the public on October 27, 2011.

[7] The Queens Memory team offers weekly trainings for new volunteers and those interested in conducting oral history interviews.

Black and white postcard of the Good Citizenship Building in Flushing in 1907
Flushing Chinatown , looking westward from Main Street at the south side of 41st Avenue in Flushing in September 2011