October 17th, 2007:
Ebony Oil Corp. – Merrick Blvd. – Jamaica, Queens
© Frank H. Jump
As I continue posting images from my Rediscovering Jamaica, Jamaica Queens series- which was prompted by the urging my friend Thurman Mathis from my Queens College days in an effort to document the area before urban redevelopment erases all traces of Jamaica’s past- I found this article in the October 21, 1991 edition of the New York Times by Alan S. Oser entitled Perspectives: The Planner in Jamaica; Carrying the Torch for Downtown Growth , which foreshadows today’s continuing urban development. Notice the references to the Ebony Oil Corp.
