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So, was it a level tract of land? As opposed to, say, Read's Hill or (heh) Read's Bottom?
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Thanks TEd, even though I'm not sure that you're on the level. Because the TEd I know is someone who is, and was, on the level, and who, sometimes, would put his definition in the form of a pun. But, thanks anyway, TEd, you have answered my question: But my feelings are hurt. I will now go out and find someone else who will make me a pun.  Milo
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formerly known as etaoin...
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Hi Ed welcome to the board. I don't know about the south but here names chosen for real estate have little to do with reality. "Oak Hills" was a trailer park with a few scrubby pines in the bottom of the valley near where I grew up. (The second time it flooded someone added an "S" to the front of the sign.  )
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Ha! i live in rego park (spider man (peter parker!)) lived here too, with his grandparents)
Rego park was develped in the 1930's (after the subway was built) by the REal GOod developement Corp. REal GOod. REGO.
(before this, the area was mostly truck farms growing chinese vegetables for markets in china town.)
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the area was mostly truck farms growing chinese vegetables But...wouldn't they have been New York vegetables, then?
Oh, sorry--thought I was still in W & F!
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think "bok choi" with a Jersy accent!!
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No jackie, Queens(county) vegetables for New York (county/aka the island of manhattan) tables!
Queens county still has one working farm, and a farm museum, complete with sheep and an apple orchard.
the farm is very small (a large vegetable garden) owned an operated for the novelty of being the last farm in queens (the owner also own a real farm out east, (suffolk county))
i remember farms in queens from my childhood, (they kept disappearing and turning into apartment building complexes), like the one i live in now (built post war, on one of the remaining farms)
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