Pizza Hut opened inside the trolley barn in the 1990s.Ī spokesperson for Pizza Hut said the fast food giant would not comment on the closure, and the Ciampa Group did not immediately respond to e-mails and calls for comment on the future of the site. Local residents joined arms to stop a bulldozer that appeared at the location in April 1987, calling on local lawmakers and the city to help stop the demolition of the former trolley barn.įlushing-based developer, Ciampa Organization, agreed to save the structure and designed the “Tower Square Shopping Center” with the restored trolley barn at its main entrance. the barns were destroyed to build a shopping center. Preservationists’ halted plans by developers who sought to demolish the trolley barn and two depot towers in 1987. TOWER SQUARE duane reade Michae S Pizza Hut SQUARE CENTER Shown here in 1934 are the Woodside. The restaurant opened its doors in the late 1980s in a circa-1890 trolley barn that once operated as a terminal for the New York and Queens County Railway. Windows and doors at the Pizza Hut restaurant have been boarded-up and signs have been posted at the site directing customers to restaurants in Maspeth and Rego Park. The restaurant was targeted at least two times since December 2017 by gun-toting thieves who made off with a total of $450 in the daylight holdups. A Pizza Hut restaurant located in the Tower Square Shopping Center at 51-40 Northern Boulevard in Woodside closed its doors last month after almost three decades at the location.
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