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  2. Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    History. Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow was founded in 1983 by Sister Mary Franciscus, RSM, to provide job training to the at-risk youth of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. OBT began in a rundown storefront with the support of a small government contract. By 1992, additional public and private support allowed the organization to move into a larger ...

  3. Queens Community House - Wikipedia

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    Queens Community House ( QCH) is a non-profit human services agency in Queens, New York that operates programs for children, young adults, families, and older adults. [1] [3] [5] Like other settlement houses ,QCH combines many community services under one roof. It is one of the largest human services organizations based in Queens, serving ...

  4. Jamaica, Queens - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Avenue was an ancient trail for tribes from as far away as the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, coming to trade skins and furs for wampum. [15] It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "Beaver Pond" (now filled in; what is now Tuckerton Street north of Liberty Avenue ...

  5. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning - Wikipedia

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    Designated NYCL. November 12, 1974. The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in Jamaica, Queens, New York is a performing and visual arts center that was founded in 1972 in an effort to revitalize the surrounding business district. As of 2012, it serves more than 28,000 people annually via a 1,650 square foot gallery, a 99-seat proscenium theater ...

  6. New York City ethnic enclaves - Wikipedia

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    Brooklyn's Jewish community is the largest in the United States, with approximately 561,000 individuals. [1]Since its founding in 1625 by Dutch traders as New Amsterdam, New York City has been a major destination for immigrants of many nationalities who have formed ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods dominated by one ethnicity.

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  8. Jamaican Americans - Wikipedia

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    An estimated 554,897 Jamaican-born people lived in the U.S. in 2000. [6] This represents 61% of the approximate 911,000 Americans of Jamaican ancestry. Many Jamaicans are second, third and descend from even older generations, as there have been Jamaicans in the U.S. as early as the early twentieth Century.

  9. Queens Public Library - Wikipedia

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    The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year ...