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Queens Borough Hall

Queens Borough Hall, built in 1940, is located on the north side of Queens Boulevard and is bounded by Union Turnpike, 126th Street and 82nd Avenue. It houses the Queens Borough President and a number of other City services as well as court space.

Queens Borough Hall

Previously, Queens' municipal offices were scattered throughout the borough before being brought together under one roof. Queens Borough Hall was originally built to house the Queens Borough office, a post office and a traffic court - demonstrating as early as 1940 that the Borough Hall was the home to all types of civic activity, including judicial.

Planned during the Depression, expense was spared and the low cost - a little over $1.6 million - was the major design issue. The architects, William Gehron and Andrew J. Thomas, eliminated elevators to swiftly build the structure in just nine months.

This long, low, three-and-a-half-story brick building has a central entrance marked by angular columns. The building is in a very austere classical style, referring to the modern style popular at the time.

Gehron was responsible, with Alfred Easton Poor, for building the Criminal Courthouse nearby. Earlier, as part of the firm of Gehron and Ross, he designed the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan and in 1958 his firm Gehron & Seltzer designed Thayer Hall at West Point. Thomas, on the other hand, was best known for his sought-after residential work, designing a number of the original apartment buildings in Jackson Heights, as well as the model Dunbar Apartments in Harlem. The architects struck even more notoriety when, in 1940, the Queens Borough Hall won a design award from the Queens Chamber of Commerce.

This was the county's first dedicated Borough Hall and it symbolizes the growth of Queens from a collection of rural villages to a bustling urban center. The horizontal, clean-lined Borough Hall, along with the modern Criminal Courthouse, define the Civic Center.

City Clerk's Office
(718) 286-2829
(718) 286-2846
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Ground Level

Department of Buildings
(718) 286-0790
Room 110

Department of City Planning
(718) 286-3170
Room 201

Department of Environmental Protection
(718) 595-4631
(718) 595-7000
Room 1-280

Department of Housing
Anti-Abandonment Office
(718) 286-2758
G-100

Department of Housing
Preservation and Development/Code Enforcement
(718) 286-0800
(718) 286-0808
(718) 286-0809
Room 1-330

New York City Department of Transportation
(718) 286-2700 room 280
(718) 286-2739 (permits) room I-280

District Attorney's Office/Intake Bureau
(718) 286-6850
(718) 286-6852
Room 3

Police Department/Auxiliary Police Section
(718) 520-9243
2nd Floor, Right Side

Rifle/Shotgun Section
(718) 520-9300
Room B-11

Queens Borough President's Office
(718) 286-3000
2nd Floor, Left side

Queens Community Board 9
(718) 286-2686
Room 310-A