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Astoria is located in Queens Community District 1 [1] and its ZIP Codes are 11101, 11102, 11103, 11105, and 11106. [4] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 114th Precinct. [5] Fire protection is provided by Battalions 45 and 49 of FDNY. Politically, Astoria is represented by the New York City Council's 22nd and 26th ...
From the time of the inception of the ZIP Code system until 1998, the postal zones of Queens and western Nassau County—whose secession from Queens County in 1899 did not affect postal routes—were organized based on which main post office routed the neighborhood's postal mail. The name of the main post office was the default name of the ...
Area codes. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Long Island City (LIC) is a neighborhood on the western tip of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south. Incorporated as a city in 1870, Long ...
ZIP Code. 11369, 11370, 11371. Area codes. 718, 347, 929, and 917. East Elmhurst is a residential neighborhood in the northwest section of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded to the south by Jackson Heights and Corona, to the north and east by Bowery Bay, and to the west by Woodside and Ditmars Steinway.
Queens is the fourth-most densely populated borough in New York City and the fourth-most densely populated U.S. county. It is highly diverse as about 47% of its residents are foreign-born. [10] Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of the Province of New York.
New York's 14th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City, represented by Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The district includes the eastern part of The Bronx and part of north-central Queens. The Queens portion includes the neighborhoods of Astoria, College ...
The Steinway Mansion is a large Italianate Villa-style dwelling. The architect is unknown. It is constructed of granite and bluestone with cast iron ornamentation and has a two-story, T-shaped central section gable roof. It has a one-story library, that is now an office, with a wing with large bay windows.
The demographics of Queens, the second-most populous borough in New York City, are highly diverse.No racial or ethnic group holds a majority in the borough. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (behind Brooklyn), with approximately 2.3 million residents in 2013, approximately 48% of them foreign-born; [1] Queens County is also the ...