A few years ago, The New Yorker published a story about the last family farm in New York City. It was in Queens, if I remember correctly.
Was it the Harbes Family Farm? If so, it looks like they have moved from Long Island City in Queens to Mattituck, further east on Long Island.
Any chance it was Schmitt family farm?
How long ago would you guess the article appeared in The New Yorker?
Nice find, astro.
If I’m reading things right, that NPR story was done in 2002?
In a Dec. 2001 story in the NY Times about the Klein farm , they said
I can’t offer more than that right now.
Thanks, astro. That’s the one.
Interesting article about NYC farms from the Dept. of Parks and Recreation. The Klein Farm was almost 200 acres at its largest in the 1930s. And in the 1890s there were two thousand farms in the five boroughs of New York City.
When’s the last time you thought of New York City life as bucolic? 
Well, when you consider that that at the time of consolidation in 1998, two of the five boroughs (Queens and SI) were still essentially rural, and the eastern Bronx was only starting to develop, it’s not so surprising!
Do you mean 1897?
This site, Forgotten New York, has some great info on pockets of rurality in NYC.
There’s a link to a page about the last farm (Queens Farm Museum, or somesuch) almost at the bottom of the linked page, which also includes a mention that The Kleins have sold up.
1898? Seriously – I don’t know one way or the other.
I realize this is a somewhat nice distinction, but although the law went into effect in May, 1897, the other municipalities weren’t extinguished until Januar y 1, 1898, which is why the 100th anniversary was celebrated (in a rather low-key way) on January 1, 1998.