Fire rips through row of homes in Queens, injuring 14 including 11 firefighters

Did you know a huge part of Astoria began as a purpose-built neighborhood for workers? Back in the 1870s, William Steinway of Steinway & Sons piano fame moved his piano factory from Manhattan to what was then farmland in Queens and created something truly special: Steinway Village. Steinway didn’t just build a factory he built a community. He put up homes for workers, laid out streets, brought in transportation lines, and added schools, a library, churches, a post office, parks, and more. It was