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Long Island City's turn-of-the-century district of residential towers, called Queens West, is located along the East River, just north of the LIRR's Long Island City Station. Redevelopment in Queens West reflects the intent to have the area as a major residential area in New York City, with its high-rise residences very close to public ...
John J. Shuford and Avery M. Powell built Long Island Mill [2] in the early 1850s. Brothers Columbus and Wilfred Turner bought the mill in 1881. It was located "on a mile-long stretch of island in one of the river's wider spots". [5] Columbus Turner built a house nearby which he called Mont Beaux, which the mill workers pronounced Monbo.
Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn [5] and by Nassau County to its east, and shares maritime borders with the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, as well as with New Jersey. [6]
Queens Boulevard starts off as a small 2-lane street at Jamaica Avenue, but becomes a 6 lane median-divided street at Hillside Avenue one block north.. Queens Boulevard runs northwest to southeast across a little short of half the length of the borough, starting at Queens Plaza at the Queensboro Bridge entrance in Long Island City and running through the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Woodside ...
Douglaston–Little Neck is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Queens.The community is located on the North Shore of Long Island, bordered to the east by the region of Great Neck in Nassau County, to the south by Glen Oaks and the North Shore Towers, and to the west by Bayside.
By the early 2000s, Long Island City was going through gentrification, and new buildings were being put up, especially around Queens Plaza. In 2001, the area was rezoned, and 2,500 of about 5,000 apartments were built or planned within two blocks of the plaza. City officials decided to clean up the plaza, since the area was being gentrified. [12]
When the western part of Queens County was consolidated with New York City in 1898, that area became the Borough of Queens. In 1899, the remaining eastern section of Queens County was split off to form Nassau County on Long Island, thereafter making the borough and county of Queens coextensive with each other.
Oakland Gardens is a middle class neighborhood in the southern part of Bayside, bounded to the north by the Long Island Expressway, to the east by Alley Pond Park, to the south by Union Turnpike, and to the west by Cunningham Park. [26] Bayside proper is to the north, and Queens Village and Bellerose are to the south and southeast, respectively ...