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Queens, in Jeffery Kroessler's telling, is a borough of urban utopias, as he shows in this definitive, well-written history of Sunnyside Gardens, tracing its history from when it was a gleam in the eyes of its visionary planners, through its heyday, to its complicated post-utopian history. There are many treasures to be found in this book, including a fascinating account of For those interested in the history of intentional communities, in the conflicting visions of those two squabbling giants of twentieth-century urbanism, Lewis Mumford (a one-time Sunnyside Gardens resident) and Jane Jacobs, and for the sorely neglected history of the borough of Queens, Sunnyside Gardens is a must-read.--Peter Eisenstadt, author of Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

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Jeffrey Kroessler (1952-2023) was a Professor at the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and author of The Greater New York Sports Chronology; New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis; Historic Preservation in Queens; and other works.

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