Plaque Will Be Installed Where Addabbo-Social Security Federal Building Is Located Today
(Queens, NY) On Tuesday, December 10, Senator Joe Addabbo (D-Howard Beach), joined event hosts–Aquinas Honor Society members, their teacher, Carl Ballenas, and school administrators–at a ceremony held at Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica Estates to unveil a bronze plaque that will soon be installed by federal officials on the Joseph P. Addabbo-Social Security federal building in Jamaica. [The building is named for the late Congressman and father of the senator whose district included part of Jamaica].
The plaque marks the location of a famed colonial era inn at Parsons Blvd. and Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica, mentioned in the diary of President George Washington when he stayed overnight in 1790 while on a post-Revolutionary War tour of Long Island to thank his spies.
The students were thrilled to welcome so many distinguished guests attend the ceremony marking the site’s colonial history, the end result of months of research uncovered while gathering material to include in their previously published Arcadia book on Jamaica’s history.
Along with Senator Addabbo were Councilman-elect Rory Lancman; Wilhelmina Kelly of the DAR’s Increase Carpenter Jamaica Chapter; representatives of the federal agencies, General Services Administration and Social Security Administration; Jason Hilliard, Executive Director for Congressman Meeks; Don Capaldi, representing Congresswoman Meng; the Deputy Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Brooklyn; Chair Andrew Koslosky of The Josephine Foundation; Helen Day, the Richmond Hill Historical Society.
