Mona Coal & Ice Company

The Mona Coal and Ice Company operated at this location during the early twentieth century as a vital link in the heating and food preservation network of a rapidly industrializing Long Island City. The business functioned by processing bulk shipments of anthracite coal for domestic stoves and harvested river or manufactured ice for the wooden iceboxes that kept local households fed before the widespread adoption of electricity. This facility represents the essential infrastructure that sustained the neighborhood during the transition from coal-fired kitchens to modern utility reliance.