Woodside Heights: The countdown.

Two more days until closing...............Many people, the owners and the Realtor, of the house in Woodside have told us that it used to be an old firehouse. I went to the NYPL and did a little digging around. I dug up old Bromley maps on microfiche from the 1800's and early 1900's before and after the house was built. Looking at the maps, there is no sign that our soon to be abode was ever a firehouse. Maybe a carriage house, or an auto body shop, but it doesn't make sense that in 1930, a building as small as 1000 sqft would be a firehouse. The current owners also told us that it was built for a horse drawn vehicle, which also doesn't compute. I now have my old neighbor Konstantine, a current NYFD firefighter, on the case, picking the brain of the resident firehouse historian to see what he can find.

However, I did discover, that Woodside used to be called Woodside Heights according to the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, (1914-May 1951) , a name we will definitely coin as our own. In Volume 9 of the 24 volume map series, Woodside Heights is listed along with Elmhurst Heights, Woodside, Lawrenceville, Winfield, Nassau Heights, Maspeth, and Winfield Heights. Jackson Heights is included in volume 10 with North Woodside, Corona, and East Elmhurst.

I found one other evidence of this previous name in old publications:

1898 July. Daily Star: Queens area news-

{Joseph COTTRELL of Woodside Heights had the third finger of his right
hand smashed on Saturday.  He is an engineer in the power house of the
Metropolitan Traction Company in New York.  He slipped on the oily floor
and caught his right hand in the belting.  Besides the injury to the third
finger his hand was injured, but not seriously.  He was taken to Bellevue
Hospital and after the injuries had been dressed he was able to come to his
home on Woodside Heights.}

Yesterday while reading the Metro section of the Times, I saw a community bulletin for interesting things to do in the five boroughs, and Woodside was the first one listed.
Does anyone know if there is a large Hawaiian contingent in Woodside, or anywhere in Queens?