Flushing
Among the 10 works by New York architectural firms cited in January as winners of the American Institute of Architects’ National Honor Awards for 2001, are the four-story Queens Borough Public Library building in Flushing and the New York Times 457,000 square-foot printing plant in College Point—both by the architectural firm, Polshek Partnership. Also cited is the Rifkind residence designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien, which stands at the edge of a pond on three wooded acres in Wainscott at the East End of Long Island. The institute, which will pre sent the awards at its annual convention in Denver in May, honored 30 projects around the nation. The awards fall into three categories: new buildings, interior design, and regional or urban design.

Woodhaven
St. Matthews Episcopal Church at 85-45 96thStreet and the historic Wycoff- Snediker burying ground, which is adjacent to and also owned by the church, were recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church was built in 1927 in the late Gothic Revival Style with Robert F. Schirmer as architect. The burying ground contains the gravestones of old Dutch families dating from 1793 to 1892. The earliest stones are of rough fieldstone with only initials carved in the stone. This is one of the few private family burying grounds left in Queens County. St. Matthews Church carefully maintains it.