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"[A] section of Whitepot [Forest Hills], with Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard as a center, was for a number of years called Hopedale. In fact, it is only within the last year that a Hopedale Railway Station, located on the boulevard near the turnpike, was torn down."
The Forest Hills Bulletin, p. 1 (Dec. 13, 1924).
The Maple Grove Station
In May of 1879, the Maple Grove Long Island Railroad Station opened. It was named after the area and the local Cemetery it was intended to serve. Using today's landmarks (which did not exist then), the Station was located in back of the Mowbray and Kew Gardens Plaza Apartments. Less than 30 years after it opened, both the Maple Grove Station and the tracks became obsolete as the Railroad prepared to build a new electrically powered main line.