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Jackson Heights in the Times Last Sunday’s New York Times, besides plugging Jackson Heights’ typical attractions, notes that the Jackson Heights Garden City Society plans to market the Heights, East Elmhurst, and Corona as the “Tri-Communities” and roll out trolley-buses to help interested parties navigate local points of interest:

“Jackson Heights has something that the vaunted Manhattan does not,” said Mr. [Jeffrey] Saunders, president of the Jackson Heights Garden City Society. “It is the first garden city built in America, and only the second built in the world.” The garden cities movement, he will quickly remind you, was started by Sir Ebenezer Howard in England in the late 19th century to create communities that merged the best of city and country life.

The Jackson Heights Historic District teems with neo-Tudor, neo-Georgian and neo-Romanesque buildings with lovely gardens and architectural details that visitors may never notice. “When you walk around Manhattan,” he said, “you see tall skyscrapers, you assume: ‘This must matter. I must be someplace.’ When you walk around a garden city, it’s much more subtle.”