Luke J. Lang Square

Fresh Pond Rd., 59 Rd. and 61 St.

Queens, 11378

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

This triangle honors Luke J. Lang (c.1894-1917), a soldier who gave his life in World War I (1914-1918). Born in 1894, Lang lived on Bleecker Street in the nearby neighborhood of Ridgewood, and he worked as a printer at J.E. Hetsch on Duane Street in Manhattan. Lang enlisted to fight in World War I in June 1917. The details of his death are unknown.