Astoria

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Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of Queens in New York City bound by the East River, the Con Ed plant in Ravenswood and the Queens Plaza. Astoria, and Queens, is home to the most diverse demographics in America. Originally named Hallet’s Cove, its name was changed to Astoria after John Jacob Astor.

The Dutch and Germans settled Astoria in the 17th century, the Irish followed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Next the Italians moved in, and the number of Italian restaurants, delis and bakeries peppered in Astoria is proof of that. In the 1960s Greeks from Greece and Cyprus moved into the neighborhood, today Astoria has the largest Greek population next to Greece. The mid-1970s brought in people from Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen and Morocco. In the 1990s, South American and Albanians, Bulgarians and Bosnians moved into Astoria.

Steinway Street, named after the founder of piano company Steinway & Sons, is the main thoroughfare filled with numerous restaurants and shops. Astoria is also an place for early film, which is all archived in the Museum of the Moving Image. Other notable attractions include the Kaufman Astoria Studios, Isamu Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park.

Astoria has been the sight of film shoots for decades including filming for Seinfeld, Cosby, Goodfellas and A LI Tale. The Kaufman Astoria Studios makes television shows like Spin City, The Cosby Show, Law & Order and Sesame Street. Motion pictures filmed here include The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, Hair, The Wiz and the mini series Angels in America.

The Museum of the Moving Image is the country’s only museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of the moving image in all its forms. The multimedia exhibitions gives an experience of the history of film you’ll be hard pressed to find anywhere else. The Television Center Foundation, who is fueling the Museum, took control of the former Kaufman Studios in order to preserve the building. Soon after its opening in 1988, London opened a museum similar to its Queen’s counterpart.

Native Astorians include Chamique Holdsclaw, Whitney Ford, Christopher Walken, Tony Bennett, Maria Callas, Ethel Merman and David Schwimmer.

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CITY-GATES was chosen by a world wide leader in the construction management industry to provide overhead coiling doors to well known retail store chain in the South East. The slide show you are looking at is one of fifteen trailers that were needed to deliver 225 doors to various sites throughout the South Eastern United States. The customer placed an order for our Model CG300 rolling steel doors. All of the doors were constructed from 20 gage galvanized steel slats, angle iron bottom bars, angle iron guides, counter balanced torsion springs, chain hoist operated and motorized. The size of the doors ranged from 6 feet wide to 35 feet wide. Please contact our special contracts department if you have a similar requirement.