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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]
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK - Police are searching for four suspects after they opened fire into a crowd of 15 people standing outside an event space in Jamaica, Queens. Ten teenagers were hurt in the shooting ...
The borough of Queens consists of what formerly was only the western part of a then-larger Queens County. In 1899, the three eastern towns of Queens County that had not joined the city the year before—the towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay—formally seceded from Queens County to form the new Nassau County. [9]
Queens Village is located in Queens Community District 13 and its ZIP Codes are 11427, 11428, and 11429. [1] It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 105th Precinct. [5] Politically, Queens Village is represented by the New York City Council's 23rd District. [6]
1657 – Flushing Remonstrance 1683 – Queens County created. [1]1790 – Population: 16,014. [2]1821 - Horse racing track opens. [3]1858 - First all-star baseball game and first games in which admission is charged takes place in Corona at the old Fashion Race Course.
The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map; Queens is located to the center and right portion of the map. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.