On this week’s show we will visit Woodhaven in Queens.

My guests will be Ed Wendell of the Woodhaven Historical Society, and Mark Gallagher, owner of the famous Manor Deli, and other Queens culinary businesses.

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Show NotesSegment 1

Tonight we’re going to journey to Queens With Edwin Dell, Everything Ed has done has been local he’s lived in Woodhaven most of his life. He's President of the Woodhaven block association, and the president of Woodhaven's cultural at historical Society. When he’s not championing Woodhaven history he is a Head of an IT department Quick international courier shipping company that specializes in clinical trials and dangerous goods. Woodhaven block Association was Founded in 1970 Was a place for people to come in air their complaints and meet their local elected officials. School Sisters of Notre Dame Education for women. They offer free English as a second language education, and GED for women. Cultural and historical Society was founded in 1992 by A group of resident , who started printing the Woodhaven history book and hanging up historical markers and promoting the history of Woodhaven.

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Ed is working on a book of Woodhaven history if you’d like to get in touch with him email him at [email protected] or you can go to projectwoodhaven.com. he has weekly zoom meetings where they look at old photographs. On October 15 1821 the union course race track was the largest dirt track at the time. They would have a match races the north versus the south with hundreds of people showing up to witness it. Ed does a small walking tour where you can see pieces of the race track . Bridges together old and new Woodhaven. The union course race track during 1860s was a camp for soldiers. Then later on they ended up building houses over it. Residential development really started in 1900s when the farm started dying off and they started making room for new developments. Woodhaven gave birth to a lot of factories after the Civil War one of the biggest was the tin factory where they made kitchen utensils.

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Our second guest is the fifth generation of Woodhaven Mark Gallagher. Mark is the proud owner of Mark delicatessen he's been in business since 1905 he also started Another business called toberfest marks great great grandfather worked in one of the factories in Woodhaven that’s how he made his roots there. He started Working there when Mark was 16-year-old He was working at the deli through college and He went to baroque for business and didn’t know what he wanted to do. When he realized that once the owner was gone there would be no one to take over he decided that he wanted to fill that role.

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Mark has two restaurants called Oktoberfest Where they make beer and schnitzel it just has a really authentic German feel he opened that in 2006 and 2009 He opened up a full bar and restaurant. The thing about Woodhaven is it’s always constantly changing it went from working class to upper middle class and now it’s more of a working class but it’s ever-changing.