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Queens Village, Queens

January 01, 1970

Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bound by Hollis to the west, Cambria Heights to the south, Bellerose, Queens and Elmont, Nassau County to the east, and Oakland Gardens to the north.

Queens Village
Neighborhood of Queens
St. Joseph's Episcopal Church
Location within New York City
Coordinates: 40°42′54″N 73°44′24″W / 40.715°N 73.74°W / 40.715; -73.74
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
County/BoroughQueens
Community DistrictQueens 13[1]
Population
 (2010)[2]
 • Total52,504
Ethnicity
[3]
 • Black50.2%
 • Hispanic18.4%
 • Asian16.0%
 • White6.3%
 • Other/Multiracial9.1%
Economics
 • Median income$74,376[4]
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
11427, 11428, 11429
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

Shopping in the community is located along Braddock Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Hempstead Avenue, Jamaica Avenue (NY 25), Francis Lewis Boulevard, and Springfield Boulevard. Located just east of Queens Village, in Elmont, Nassau County, is the Belmont Park race track.

Close to the neighborhood are Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park, as well as the historic Long Island Motor Parkway (LIMP), home of the turn of the century racing competition, the Vanderbilt Cup. The LIMP was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt, a descendant of the family that presided over the New York Central Railroad and Western Union; it is now part of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway.

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]

History edit

Queens Village was founded as Little Plains in the 1640s. Homage to this part of Queens Village history is found on the sign above the Long Island Railroad Station there. In 1824, Thomas Brush established a blacksmith shop in the area. He prospered and built several other shops and a factory, and the area soon became known as Brushville. On March 1, 1837, the railroad arrived. The first station in the area was called Flushing Avenue in 1837, Delancy Avenue by June 20, 1837, and Brushville by November 27, 1837,[7] likely about a mile west of the present station. In 1856, residents voted to change the name from Brushville to Queens.[8] The name "Inglewood" also was used for both the village and the train station in the 1860s and 1870s.[9][10] The name Brushville was still used in an 1860 New York Times article,[11] but both "Queens" and "Brushville" are used in an 1870 article.[12] Maps from 1873 show portions of Queens Village (then called Inglewood and Queens) in the town of Hempstead,[10] but 1891 maps show it entirely in the town of Jamaica.[13]

After the Borough of Queens became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York in 1898, and the new county of Nassau was created in 1899, the border between the city and Nassau County was set directly east of Queens Village. A 1901 article in the Brooklyn Eagle already uses the full name Queens Village,[14] a name that had been used as late as the 1880s for Lloyd's Neck in present-day Suffolk County.[15] In 1923, the Long Island Railroad added "Village" to its station's name to avoid confusion with the county of the same name, and thus the neighborhood became known as Queens Village.[8]

Queens Village was part of an overall housing boom that was spreading east through Queens from New York as people from the city sought the bucolic life afforded by the less-crowded atmosphere of the area. Today, many of those charming and well-maintained Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes built in Queens Village during the 1920s and 1930s continue to attract a diverse population.[16]

Other Queens Village on Long Island edit

Lloyd Harbor, New York, which was formerly in Queens County but now in Suffolk County, was known as Queens Village from 1685 until as late as 1883.[15][17][18] In 1885, known then as Lloyd Neck, it seceded from Queens County and became part of the town of Huntington in Suffolk County.[17]

Subsections edit

 
A welcome sign for Hollis Hills on Union Turnpike

Bellaire edit

Bellaire is in western Queens Village next to Hollis and covers the area surrounding Jamaica Avenue and 211th Street.[19] Bellaire is the largest section of Queens Village. The area considered Bellaire usually falls under the general title of Queens Village. There was once a Long Island Rail Road station named Bellaire.[20] 211th Street, formerly known as Belleaire Boulevard has traffic medians on it indicating its history as the main route through this section of Queens Village.

Hollis Hills edit

Hollis Hills is an affluent subsection, generally bounded by Springfield Boulevard to the east, Grand Central Parkway the south, Hollis Hills Terrace to the west, and Kingsbury Avenue and Richland Avenue the north.[21][22] It is slightly above sea level due to a retreating glacier from the last Ice Age. A small pond called Potamogeton Pond exists at Bell Boulevard on the north side of Grand Central Parkway.[23]

Most homes in Hollis Hills are of the Colonial, Tudor, and Ranch styles. Houses here attract predominantly the upper-middle class as some houses in the area can fetch prices of $1,500,000 or higher. This neighborhood, similar to Douglaston, is a quasi-suburb, with detached homes sitting on large tree-lined lots. Surrey Estates, a section of Hollis Hills, is a smaller triangle of architecturally notable homes surrounded by old, large trees and is bound by Union Turnpike, Springfield Boulevard, and Hartland Avenue within Hollis Hills.

Notable institutions in Hollis Hills are The Chapel of the Redeemer Lutheran, Hollis Hills Jewish Center (founded in 1948), American Martyrs Catholic Church, the Windsor Park Branch of the Queens Public Library, the John Hamburg Community Center, Kingsbury Elementary School (P.S. 188),[24] Hollis Hills Civic Association, and Surrey Estates Homeowners Association.

Demographics edit

Queens Village, like many parts of Queens, is diverse. The neighborhood is mainly Caribbean American, Guyanese, Hispanic, Indian, Filipino, and Jamaican people also have significant populations among the 48,670 people living within the area. Formerly, a very large Jewish community existed. However, many Jewish families have left for other parts of Queens and parts of Long Island. Still, there is a small Jewish presence in Queens Village that has recently been augmented by an increase of Middle Eastern Jews. There has also been an increase in the number of Asian American residents.

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Queens Village was 52,504, a decrease of 5,200 (9.0%) from the 57,704 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 1,611.17 acres (652.02 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 32.6 inhabitants per acre (20,900/sq mi; 8,100/km2).[2]

The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 50.2% (26,376) African American, 16.0% (8,424) Asian, 6.3% (3,304) White, 0.5% (279) Native American, 0.1% (64) Pacific Islander, 3.9% (2,066) from other races and 4.4% (2,320) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18.4% (9,671) of the population.[3]

The entirety of Community Board 13, which mainly comprises Queens Village but also includes other areas, had 193,787 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.9 years.[25]: 2, 20  This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[26]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [27] Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 20% are between the ages of between 0–17, 26% between 25–44, and 29% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 16% respectively.[25]: 2 

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Board 13 was $85,857.[28] In 2018, an estimated 13% of Queens Village residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 50% in Queens Village, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, Queens Village are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.[25]: 7 

Police and crime edit

Queens Village is patrolled by the 105th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 92–08 222nd Street.[5] The 105th Precinct ranked 17th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[29] As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 29 per 100,000 people, Queens Village's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 378 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[25]: 8 

The 105th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79.4% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 9 murders, 24 rapes, 197 robberies, 405 felony assaults, 266 burglaries, 589 grand larcenies, and 164 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[30]

Fire safety edit

Queens Village contains a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, Engine Co. 304/Ladder Co. 162, at 218–44 97th Avenue.[31][32]

Health edit

As of 2018, preterm births are more common in Queens Village than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Queens Village, there were 111 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 8.8 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[25]: 11  Queens Village has an about-average population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, about the same as the citywide rate of 12%.[25]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Queens Village is 0.0065 milligrams per cubic metre (6.5×10−9 oz/cu ft), less than the city average.[25]: 9  Twelve percent of Queens Village residents are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[25]: 13  In Queens Village, 27% of residents are obese, 14% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.[25]: 16  In addition, 20% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[25]: 12 

Eighty-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is slightly less than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 74% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", lower than the city's average of 78%.[25]: 13  For every supermarket in Queens Village, there are 14 bodegas.[25]: 10 

The nearest major hospitals are Jamaica Hospital and Queens Hospital Center, both located in Jamaica.[33]

Post offices and ZIP Codes edit

Queens Village is covered by 3 ZIP Codes. From north to south they are 11427 north of 90th Avenue, 11428 between 90th and 99th Avenues, and 11429 between 99th and 114th Avenues.[34] The United States Post Office operates one post office nearby: the Queens Village Station at 209–20 Jamaica Avenue.[35]

Education edit

Queens Village generally has a similar rate of college-educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018. While 38% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 13% have less than a high school education and 49% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[25]: 6  The percentage of Queens Village students excelling in math rose from 42% in 2000 to 59% in 2011, and reading achievement decreased slightly from 52% to 50% during the same time period.[36]

Queens Village's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Queens Village, 15% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%.[26]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [25]: 6  Additionally, 83% of high school students in Queens Village graduate on time, higher than the citywide average of 75%.[25]: 6 

Schools edit

Public schools in Queens Village are operated by the New York City Department of Education and include the following:

  • P.S. 018 The Winchester School
  • P.S./I.S. 295
  • P.S. 33 Edward M Funk School
  • P.S. 95 Eastwood School
  • I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School
  • M.S 172 Irwin Altman
  • Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School
  • P.S. 034 John Harvard School
  • P.S. 135 The Bellaire School
  • P.S.188
  • Martin Van Buren High School

Private schools include:

  • Saints Joachim and Anne School
  • Grace Lutheran Day School
  • St. Joseph's Episcopal Day School
  • Incarnation R.C. School

Library edit

The Queens Public Library operates the Queens Village branch at 94–11 217th Street.[37]

Transportation edit

 
Queens Village Veterans Plaza near the Queens Village LIRR station

Queens Village station, located at Amboy Lane (on the corner of Springfield Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue), offers service on the Long Island Rail Road's Hempstead Branch.[38]

Though no New York City Subway stations serve Queens Village, there are several bus routes that connect to the subway, including MTA Regional Bus Operations' Q1, Q2, Q27, Q36, Q43, Q77, Q83, Q88, Q110, and Nassau Inter-County Express' n1, n6, n6X, n22, n22X, n24 and n26 routes. In addition, the MTA's X68 express bus runs directly to Manhattan.[39]

Queens Village is served by intercity buses operated by Greyhound. Short Line, and Adirondack Trailways also offered service.[40][41][42] The buses stop near the intersection of Hillside Avenue and Springfield Boulevard.

Notable residents edit

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Further reading edit

  • – proposed new LIRR station at Brushville—between Hollis and Queens (Village)
  • If You're Thinking of Living in: Queens Village – Strong Community Ties, Moderate Prices

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Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens It is bound by Hollis to the west Cambria Heights to the south Bellerose Queens and Elmont Nassau County to the east and Oakland Gardens to the north Queens VillageNeighborhood of QueensSt Joseph s Episcopal ChurchLocation within New York CityCoordinates 40 42 54 N 73 44 24 W 40 715 N 73 74 W 40 715 73 74Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityCounty BoroughQueensCommunity DistrictQueens 13 1 Population 2010 2 Total52 504Ethnicity 3 Black50 2 Hispanic18 4 Asian16 0 White6 3 Other Multiracial9 1 Economics Median income 74 376 4 Time zoneUTC 5 EST Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Codes11427 11428 11429Area codes718 347 929 and 917 Shopping in the community is located along Braddock Avenue Hillside Avenue Hempstead Avenue Jamaica Avenue NY 25 Francis Lewis Boulevard and Springfield Boulevard Located just east of Queens Village in Elmont Nassau County is the Belmont Park race track Close to the neighborhood are Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park as well as the historic Long Island Motor Parkway LIMP home of the turn of the century racing competition the Vanderbilt Cup The LIMP was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt a descendant of the family that presided over the New York Central Railroad and Western Union it is now part of the Brooklyn Queens Greenway 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Other Queens Village on Long Island 2 Subsections 2 1 Bellaire 2 2 Hollis Hills 3 Demographics 4 Police and crime 5 Fire safety 6 Health 7 Post offices and ZIP Codes 8 Education 8 1 Schools 8 2 Library 9 Transportation 10 Notable residents 11 References 12 Further readingHistory editQueens Village was founded as Little Plains in the 1640s Homage to this part of Queens Village history is found on the sign above the Long Island Railroad Station there In 1824 Thomas Brush established a blacksmith shop in the area He prospered and built several other shops and a factory and the area soon became known as Brushville On March 1 1837 the railroad arrived The first station in the area was called Flushing Avenue in 1837 Delancy Avenue by June 20 1837 and Brushville by November 27 1837 7 likely about a mile west of the present station In 1856 residents voted to change the name from Brushville to Queens 8 The name Inglewood also was used for both the village and the train station in the 1860s and 1870s 9 10 The name Brushville was still used in an 1860 New York Times article 11 but both Queens and Brushville are used in an 1870 article 12 Maps from 1873 show portions of Queens Village then called Inglewood and Queens in the town of Hempstead 10 but 1891 maps show it entirely in the town of Jamaica 13 After the Borough of Queens became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York in 1898 and the new county of Nassau was created in 1899 the border between the city and Nassau County was set directly east of Queens Village A 1901 article in the Brooklyn Eagle already uses the full name Queens Village 14 a name that had been used as late as the 1880s for Lloyd s Neck in present day Suffolk County 15 In 1923 the Long Island Railroad added Village to its station s name to avoid confusion with the county of the same name and thus the neighborhood became known as Queens Village 8 Queens Village was part of an overall housing boom that was spreading east through Queens from New York as people from the city sought the bucolic life afforded by the less crowded atmosphere of the area Today many of those charming and well maintained Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes built in Queens Village during the 1920s and 1930s continue to attract a diverse population 16 Other Queens Village on Long Island edit Lloyd Harbor New York which was formerly in Queens County but now in Suffolk County was known as Queens Village from 1685 until as late as 1883 15 17 18 In 1885 known then as Lloyd Neck it seceded from Queens County and became part of the town of Huntington in Suffolk County 17 Subsections edit nbsp A welcome sign for Hollis Hills on Union Turnpike Bellaire edit Bellaire is in western Queens Village next to Hollis and covers the area surrounding Jamaica Avenue and 211th Street 19 Bellaire is the largest section of Queens Village The area considered Bellaire usually falls under the general title of Queens Village There was once a Long Island Rail Road station named Bellaire 20 211th Street formerly known as Belleaire Boulevard has traffic medians on it indicating its history as the main route through this section of Queens Village Hollis Hills edit Hollis Hills is an affluent subsection generally bounded by Springfield Boulevard to the east Grand Central Parkway the south Hollis Hills Terrace to the west and Kingsbury Avenue and Richland Avenue the north 21 22 It is slightly above sea level due to a retreating glacier from the last Ice Age A small pond called Potamogeton Pond exists at Bell Boulevard on the north side of Grand Central Parkway 23 Most homes in Hollis Hills are of the Colonial Tudor and Ranch styles Houses here attract predominantly the upper middle class as some houses in the area can fetch prices of 1 500 000 or higher This neighborhood similar to Douglaston is a quasi suburb with detached homes sitting on large tree lined lots Surrey Estates a section of Hollis Hills is a smaller triangle of architecturally notable homes surrounded by old large trees and is bound by Union Turnpike Springfield Boulevard and Hartland Avenue within Hollis Hills Notable institutions in Hollis Hills are The Chapel of the Redeemer Lutheran Hollis Hills Jewish Center founded in 1948 American Martyrs Catholic Church the Windsor Park Branch of the Queens Public Library the John Hamburg Community Center Kingsbury Elementary School P S 188 24 Hollis Hills Civic Association and Surrey Estates Homeowners Association Demographics editQueens Village like many parts of Queens is diverse The neighborhood is mainly Caribbean American Guyanese Hispanic Indian Filipino and Jamaican people also have significant populations among the 48 670 people living within the area Formerly a very large Jewish community existed However many Jewish families have left for other parts of Queens and parts of Long Island Still there is a small Jewish presence in Queens Village that has recently been augmented by an increase of Middle Eastern Jews There has also been an increase in the number of Asian American residents Based on data from the 2010 United States Census the population of Queens Village was 52 504 a decrease of 5 200 9 0 from the 57 704 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 1 611 17 acres 652 02 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 32 6 inhabitants per acre 20 900 sq mi 8 100 km2 2 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 50 2 26 376 African American 16 0 8 424 Asian 6 3 3 304 White 0 5 279 Native American 0 1 64 Pacific Islander 3 9 2 066 from other races and 4 4 2 320 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18 4 9 671 of the population 3 The entirety of Community Board 13 which mainly comprises Queens Village but also includes other areas had 193 787 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 82 9 years 25 2 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 26 53 PDF p 84 27 Most inhabitants are youth and middle aged adults 20 are between the ages of between 0 17 26 between 25 44 and 29 between 45 64 The ratio of college aged and elderly residents was lower at 9 and 16 respectively 25 2 As of 2017 the median household income in Community Board 13 was 85 857 28 In 2018 an estimated 13 of Queens Village residents lived in poverty compared to 19 in all of Queens and 20 in all of New York City One in twelve residents 8 were unemployed compared to 8 in Queens and 9 in New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 50 in Queens Village lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update Queens Village are considered to be high income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying 25 7 Police and crime editQueens Village is patrolled by the 105th Precinct of the NYPD located at 92 08 222nd Street 5 The 105th Precinct ranked 17th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 29 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 29 per 100 000 people Queens Village s rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 378 per 100 000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole 25 8 The 105th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79 4 between 1990 and 2018 The precinct reported 9 murders 24 rapes 197 robberies 405 felony assaults 266 burglaries 589 grand larcenies and 164 grand larcenies auto in 2018 30 Fire safety editQueens Village contains a New York City Fire Department FDNY fire station Engine Co 304 Ladder Co 162 at 218 44 97th Avenue 31 32 Health editAs of 2018 update preterm births are more common in Queens Village than in other places citywide though births to teenage mothers are less common In Queens Village there were 111 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 8 8 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 25 11 Queens Village has an about average population of residents who are uninsured In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11 about the same as the citywide rate of 12 25 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in Queens Village is 0 0065 milligrams per cubic metre 6 5 10 9 oz cu ft less than the city average 25 9 Twelve percent of Queens Village residents are smokers which is lower than the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 25 13 In Queens Village 27 of residents are obese 14 are diabetic and 37 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 22 8 and 23 respectively 25 16 In addition 20 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 25 12 Eighty six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is slightly less than the city s average of 87 In 2018 74 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent lower than the city s average of 78 25 13 For every supermarket in Queens Village there are 14 bodegas 25 10 The nearest major hospitals are Jamaica Hospital and Queens Hospital Center both located in Jamaica 33 Post offices and ZIP Codes editQueens Village is covered by 3 ZIP Codes From north to south they are 11427 north of 90th Avenue 11428 between 90th and 99th Avenues and 11429 between 99th and 114th Avenues 34 The United States Post Office operates one post office nearby the Queens Village Station at 209 20 Jamaica Avenue 35 Education editQueens Village generally has a similar rate of college educated residents to the rest of the city as of 2018 update While 38 of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher 13 have less than a high school education and 49 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 39 of Queens residents and 43 of city residents have a college education or higher 25 6 The percentage of Queens Village students excelling in math rose from 42 in 2000 to 59 in 2011 and reading achievement decreased slightly from 52 to 50 during the same time period 36 Queens Village s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City In Queens Village 15 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year lower than the citywide average of 20 26 24 PDF p 55 25 6 Additionally 83 of high school students in Queens Village graduate on time higher than the citywide average of 75 25 6 Schools edit Public schools in Queens Village are operated by the New York City Department of Education and include the following P S 018 The Winchester School P S I S 295 P S 33 Edward M Funk School P S 95 Eastwood School I S 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School M S 172 Irwin Altman Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School P S 034 John Harvard School P S 135 The Bellaire School P S 188 Martin Van Buren High School Private schools include Saints Joachim and Anne School Grace Lutheran Day School St Joseph s Episcopal Day School Incarnation R C School Library edit The Queens Public Library operates the Queens Village branch at 94 11 217th Street 37 Transportation edit nbsp Queens Village Veterans Plaza near the Queens Village LIRR station Queens Village station located at Amboy Lane on the corner of Springfield Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue offers service on the Long Island Rail Road s Hempstead Branch 38 Though no New York City Subway stations serve Queens Village there are several bus routes that connect to the subway including MTA Regional Bus Operations Q1 Q2 Q27 Q36 Q43 Q77 Q83 Q88 Q110 and Nassau Inter County Express n1 n6 n6X n22 n22X n24 and n26 routes In addition the MTA s X68 express bus runs directly to Manhattan 39 Queens Village is served by intercity buses operated by Greyhound Short Line and Adirondack Trailways also offered service 40 41 42 The buses stop near the intersection of Hillside Avenue and Springfield Boulevard Notable residents editChy Davidson born 1959 former NFL wide receiver who played two seasons with the New York Jets 43 George Gately 1928 2001 creator of the Heathcliff comic strip 44 Karine Jean Pierre born 1974 political advisor who has served as the White House Press Secretary since 2022 45 Nancy Malone 1935 2014 actor director producer television executive 46 Charles Henry Miller 1842 1922 landscape painter 47 Paul Newman 1925 2008 actor from 1953 to 1954 48 Tom Pecora born 1958 college basketball coach who is currently the head coach for the Quinnipiac Bobcats men s basketball team 49 Fred W Preller 1902 1974 politician who served as a New York State Assemblyman from 1944 until 1965 50 The Rockin Chairs a doo wop group in the 1950s 51 52 Christopher Romulo former professional Muay Thai fighter 53 Julius Schwartz 1915 2004 comic book editor and a science fiction agent 54 Matthew Troy 1929 2004 lawyer and politician who was a member of the New York City Council 55 Tevi Troy Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services 56 George Vande Woude 1935 2021 cancer researcher 57 Christian Vital born 1997 basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Melvyn Weiss 1935 2018 attorney who co founded the plaintiff class action law firm Milberg Weiss 58 Roy Wilkins 1901 1981 activist in the civil rights movement 59 References edit a b NYC Planning Community Profiles communityprofiles planning nyc gov New York City Department of City Planning Retrieved April 7 2018 a b Table PL P5 NTA Total Population and Persons Per Acre New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning February 2012 Accessed June 16 2016 a b Table PL P3A NTA Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning March 29 2011 Accessed June 14 2016 11427 Zip Code New York New York Profile homes apartments schools population income averages housing demographics location statistics sex offenders residents and real estate info a b NYPD 105th Precinct www nyc gov New York City Police Department Retrieved October 3 2016 Current City Council Districts for Queens County New York City Accessed May 5 2017 ARRT S ARRCHIVES a b Vincent F Seyfried amp William Asadorian January 1991 Old Queens N Y in early photographs Courier Corporation p 63 ISBN 9780486263588 Retrieved 2009 12 16 Votes on names are often about the name of the post office which may serve several smaller surrounding communities as well Shaman Diana February 2 2003 2003 NY Times article The New York Times Retrieved May 22 2010 RDNY article a b 1873 map showing name Inglewood Or Queens in the Town of Hempstead REPUBLICAN BARBECUE Ox Roast and Clam Bake at Brushville Long Island Addresses by Gov Chase Hon John Covode and Others NY Times 1860 10 25 Retrieved 2009 12 06 THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE Grand Demonstration in Queens L I The New York Times 1870 09 14 Retrieved 2009 12 06 1891 map of Queens 1901 Brooklyn Eagle article using full name Queens Village 1901 07 19 a b 1883 Brooklyn Eagle article referring to Lloyd s Neck as Queens Village 1883 10 31 Community Information Community and Library History Archived May 2 2008 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 27 2008 a b LLOYD HARBOR A BRIEF HISTORY Incorporated Village of Lloyd Harbor Suffolk County NY Archived from the original on April 27 2009 Retrieved 2011 11 26 Beers Atlas of Long Island 1873 Archived from the original on 2011 11 20 Retrieved 2011 11 26 Jackson Kenneth T ed 1995 The Encyclopedia of New York City New Haven Yale University Press ISBN 0300055366 p 98 1910 maps of area showing among other things a LIRR station between Hollis and Queens called Bellaire Archived from the original on 2011 08 12 Retrieved 2009 12 18 Shaman Diana 2002 09 29 If You re Thinking of Living In Hollis Hills A Suburban Feel and a School That Excels The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2020 03 16 Rather John In a Queens Enclave Civic Involvement The community places high value on quiet civility and order The New York Times September 24 1995 p R5 Walsh Kevin Potamogeton Pond Forgotten New York March 21 2011 Find a School New York City Department of Education a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Queens Village Including Bellerose Cambria Heights Glen Oaks Laurelton Queens Village Rosedale and Springfield Gardens PDF nyc gov NYC Health 2018 Retrieved March 2 2019 a b 2016 2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan Take Care New York 2020 PDF nyc gov New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 2016 Retrieved September 8 2017 New Yorkers are living longer happier and healthier lives New York Post June 4 2017 Retrieved March 1 2019 NYC Queens Community District 13 Queens Village Cambria Heights amp Rosedale PUMA NY Census Reporter Retrieved July 17 2018 Queens Village DNAinfo com Crime and Safety Report www dnainfo com Archived from the original on April 15 2017 Retrieved October 6 2016 105th Precinct CompStat Report PDF www nyc gov New York City Police Department Retrieved July 22 2018 Engine Company 304 Ladder Company 162 FDNYtrucks com Retrieved March 7 2019 FDNY Firehouse Listing Location of Firehouses and companies NYC Open Data Socrata New York City Fire Department September 10 2018 Retrieved March 14 2019 Finkel Beth February 27 2014 Guide To Queens Hospitals Queens Tribune Archived from the original on February 4 2017 Retrieved March 7 2019 Queens Village New York City Queens New York Zip Code Boundary Map NY United States Zip Code Boundary Map USA Retrieved March 13 2019 Location Details Queens Village USPS com Retrieved March 7 2019 Queens Village QN 13 PDF Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy 2011 Retrieved October 5 2016 Branch Detailed Info Queens Village Queens Public Library Retrieved March 7 2019 Queens Village Metropolitan Transportation Authority Accessed March 31 2017 Queens Bus Map PDF Metropolitan Transportation Authority August 2022 Retrieved September 29 2022 Greyhound Long Island to New York Coach USA Short Line Route 495 Trailways Queens Village CHY DAVIDSON profootballarchives com Archived from the original on July 23 2015 Retrieved July 23 2015 Hernandez Cava George Gately Creador del gato Heathcliff El Mundo Spain October 6 2001 Accessed November 20 2007 George Gately Gallagher nacio en Queens Village Nueva York en 1928 meses antes de que estallase la Gran Depresion Pero a todos los efectos hay que considerarle un habitante de New Jersey en cuya localidad de Bergenfield es donde transcurrieron su infancia y su adolescencia Rose Naeisha From Queens Village to the White House Queens Chronicle May 12 2022 Accessed December 24 2023 The daughter of Haitian American immigrants Jean Pierre was born in Martinique and raised in Queens Village Paley Center for Media Charles Henry Miller Accessed September 30 2010 Paul Newman A Biography Marian Borden Greenwood Publishing 2011 Tom Pecora Quinnipiac Bobcats men s basketball Accessed December 24 2023 A native of Queens Village New York Pecora attended Martin Van Buren High School before moving on to Adelphi University where he graduated in 1983 with a bachelor s degree in physical education and health Fred W Preller Assemblyman The New York Times August 31 1974 Accessed December 24 2023 Fred W Preller an Assemblyman from 1944 to 1965 and chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee from 1961 to 1964 died Thursday at his home 218 05 100th Avenue Queens Village Queens Rosalsky Mitch 2002 Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues and Doo Wop Vocal Groups Lanham Maryland Scarecrow Press pp 485 486 ISBN 978081083663 1 Gribin Anthony 2000 The Complete Book of Doo Wop Krause Publications p 441 ISBN 978 0873418294 Rockaway Beach fighter uses the might of the pen to help motivate others NY1 August 11 2017 Accessed December 24 2023 Christopher Romulo just published his memoir Champions Uprising Fall 7 Times Get Up 8 In the book the Queens Village native talks about how studying Muay Thai changed him from a street fighter to a professional one Nash Eric Julius Schwartz 88 Editor Who Revived Superhero Genre in Comic Books The New York Times February 12 2004 Accessed December 24 2023 Julius Schwartz a comic book editor who rescued the superhero genre from near extinction in the mid 1950 s and helped shape popular characters including Batman the Flash and Green Lantern died on Sunday in Mineola N Y He was 88 and lived in Queens Village McFadden Robert D Matthew J Troy Jr 75 Dies Ruled Queens Then Fell The New York Times December 5 2004 Accessed December 24 2023 Matthew J Troy Jr a flamboyant former city councilman and Queens Democratic leader whose rising political star collapsed in the 1970 s after he was convicted of tax evasion and stealing money from law clients died on Friday at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens He was 75 and lived in Queens Village Weddings Kami Pliskow And Tevi Troy The New York Times August 15 1999 Accessed December 24 2023 VandeWoude Suw and Vousden Karen H A celebration of the life of George Vande Woude Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America November 29 2021 Accessed December 24 2023 George was born on Christmas Day in 1935 in Brooklyn New York the son of Alice Leudesdorff Vande Woude and George F Vande Woude Sr He spent his childhood in Queens Village New York just a few blocks from Dorothy Dot Stapel who became his wife in 1959 Roberts Sam Melvyn Weiss Lawyer Who Fought Corporate Fraud Dies at 82 The New York Times February 5 2018 Accessed February 5 2018 He was raised in the Hollis Hills section of Queens and graduated from Jamaica High School He helped his father keep the books for small businesses while earning a bachelor s degree from City College of New York in 1956 He graduated from New York University Law School in 1959 and served in the Army Krebs Albin Roy Wilkins 50 Year Veteran Of Civil Rights Fight Is Dead The New York Times September 9 1981 Accessed December 24 2023 Mr Wilkins lived in Queens Village with his wife the former Aminda Badeau a social worker he met in St Louis and married in 1929 Further reading edit1852 Brooklyn Eagle article Take the LIRR to Picnic to Brushville 1871 Brooklyn Eagle article Opening of new station at Inglewood and Land sale by Colonel Wood 1900 Brooklyn Eagle article proposed new LIRR station at Brushville between Hollis and Queens Village If You re Thinking of Living in Queens Village Strong Community Ties Moderate Prices Portal nbsp New York City Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Queens Village Queens amp oldid 1219241890 Bellaire, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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