The Blissville Community

This picture taken in 1940 show's little Joey Lapinski on Greenpoint Avenue in Blissville . The camera is facing Sunnyside, the white building was the Bradley Inn, now the Cork Lounge, right above that was PS #80 which is now our Chamber Member "Best Western City View Motor Inn". If you look close in the upper right hand corner you will see St. Raphael's Church.

Blissville, The northwestern Queens neighborhood that lies within Long Island City, north of Newtown Creek between Dutch Kills Creek and Greenpoint Avenue, is named after Neziah Bliss. In 1837, Bliss and Eliphalet Nott purchased what was then the Hunter farm, which included Hunter’s Point. After Calvalry Cemetery was established at Blissville’s eastern edge in 1848, factories, hotels, and saloons sprang up. Monument works were built first, followed by distilleries and oil refineries. Today, the Long Island Expressway runs through this primarily industrial neighborhood