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Laurelton is a largely middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens and part of the former town of Jamaica. Merrick Boulevard , which bisects the community in a generally east–west direction, forms its commercial spine.
Laurelton is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch, located at the intersection of 225th Street and 141st Road in the Laurelton neighborhood of Queens, New York City. It is 14.9 miles (24.0 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan .
The district includes the entire Rockaway Peninsula as well as the Queens neighborhoods of Broad Channel, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Howard Beach, Jamaica, Kew Gardens, Laurelton, Queens Village, Richmond Hill, Rosedale, South Jamaica, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
Queens: 1836 ‡ 3 Kew Gardens City Terminal Zone Queens: 1910 1 Kew (1910–1912) Kings Park Port Jefferson Branch: Suffolk: 1872 10 St. Johnsland (1872–1891) Lakeview West Hempstead Branch: Nassau: 1924 4 Laurelton Far Rockaway Branch (Atlantic Branch) Queens: 1907 3 Lawrence Far Rockaway Branch: Nassau: 1869 4
From 2003–2013, the district included most of Southeastern Queens including the neighborhoods of Cambria Heights, Edgemere, Far Rockaway, Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park, as well as John F. Kennedy International Airport.