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Trow Business Directory of the Borough of Queens, City of New York – Classified Under Business Headings and Fully Indexed. Also Red Residential Directory of Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City and Richmond Hill, 1909–1910 (Vol. 9)
Elmhurst was founded in Queens, New York, in 1925. Current owner Henry Schwartz’s father and uncle started the company, which became Elmhurst Dairy, in their father’s milk house in the Elmhurst neighborhood. The Schwartz brothers moved to the Jamaica neighborhood in the 1930s.
A pay grade is a unit in systems of monetary compensation for employment. It is commonly used in public service, both civil and military , but also for companies of the private sector. Pay grades facilitate the employment process by providing a fixed framework of salary ranges, as opposed to a free negotiation.
The Queens Community Board 12 is a local government in the New York City borough of Queens, encompassing the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Baisley Park, Rochdale Village, South Jamaica. [3] Queens Community Board 12 is the second largest Community Board in Queens, covering the largest area of the borough.
A number offering a directory inquiries service allowing people to request to be put through to a mobile phone number was established in June 2009. [14] 118 800 proved to be controversial, however, when it was revealed that it was making available 15 million mobile numbers that it had bought from market researchers. [15]
Jamaica Hills is a small middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.The neighborhood is surrounded by Hillcrest (at the Grand Central Parkway to the north), Jamaica Estates (at Homelawn Street, a continuation of Utopia Parkway, to the east), Jamaica (at Hillside Avenue to the south), and Briarwood (at Parsons Boulevard to the west).
The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 71% of the country's GDP. [16] Jamaica has natural resources and a climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar , and bananas .
Jamaica Estates was created in 1907 by the Jamaica Estates Corporation, which developed the hilly terminal moraine's 503 acres (2.04 km 2), while preserving many of the trees that had occupied the site. [5] The company was founded by Ernestus Gulick and Felix Isman, both of Philadelphia. [6]