Flushing: Amity Street Armory


Street Address:170 Amity (Amityville?) Street
City:Flushing
County:Queens
Year Constructed:ca. 1884
Architect:Unknown
Size:
Square footage:Unknown
Acreage:Unknown
Status:Closed in 1905

Flushing Guards:    1839 - 1876
17th Separate Company:    1876 - 1897
Nucleus Co. F, 203rd New York Volunteers:    Spanish American War
17th Separate Company:    1899 - 1904
Co. I, 10th Infantry Regiment:    1905 - 1905

History

17th Separate Company housed temporarily in Peck and Fayerweather Store near Lawrence Street and Northern Boulevard before Amity Street armory built.

In 1905, the unit moved to the new Northern Boulevard Armory.