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Neighborhood Highlights

Site of St. Anastasia Parish's First Mass

The First Mass offered in Saint Anastasia Parish was in this house on Pine Street (240-16 43rd Avenue). The house was designed by Walter J. Halliday, Jamaica Queens, ca 1909 for the original owner, Adolph Helmus, a paper box manufacturer and member of Douglaston Hose Co. No. 1.