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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<ref name="queensoverviewnys">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Areas touching Monmouth County, MapIt. Accessed September 6, 2023.</ref> Queens is one of the most linguistically and ethnically diverse places in the world.<ref name=QueensMostEthnicallyAndLinguisticallyDiverseWorld>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Narula 2014 apr 29" /><ref name="Axios 2019 Jul 4" />

With a population of 2,405,464 as of the 2020 census,<ref name="2020-Census-Map" /> Queens is the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn), and is therefore also the second-most populous of the five New York City boroughs. If Queens were its own city, it would be the fourth most-populous in the U.S. after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated borough in New York City and the fourth-most densely populated U.S. county. Queens is highly diverse with approximately 47% of its residents being foreign-born.<ref name="USCensus-Queens foreign-born 2020" />

Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of the Province of New York. The settlement was named after the English Queen and Portuguese royal princess Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705).<ref name="NY.com 1999 May 8" /> From 1683 to 1899, the County of Queens included what is now Nassau County. Queens became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898, combining the towns of Long Island City, Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, and western Hempstead.<ref name="Greater-NY-Charter Weed-Parsons 1897" /> All except Hempstead are today considered neighborhoods of Queens.

Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs of New York City.<ref name="state1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is home to both of New York City's airports: John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia. Among its landmarks are Flushing Meadows–Corona Park; Citi Field, home to the New York Mets baseball team; the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, site of the U.S. Open tennis tournament; Kaufman Astoria Studios; Silvercup Studios; and the Aqueduct Racetrack. Flushing is undergoing rapid gentrification with investment by Chinese transnational entities,<ref name="Guardian-US-Ngu 2020 Aug 13" /> while Long Island City is undergoing gentrification secondary to its proximity across the East River from Manhattan.

History

Colonial and post-colonial history

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Catherine of Braganza, Queen of England

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Queens Boulevard, looking east from Van Dam Street, in 1920. The newly built IRT Flushing Line is in the boulevard's median.

The first European settlement in the region was the Dutch, who established the colony of New Netherland. The first settlements were established in 1635 followed by further settlement at Maspeth in 1642 (ultimately unsuccessful),<ref name="Shorto-Funk 2004" /> and Vlissingen (now Flushing) in 1645.<ref name="ellis-p54">Template:Cite book</ref> Other early settlements included Newtown (now Elmhurst) in 1652 and Jamaica in 1655. However, these towns were mostly inhabited by English settlers from New England via eastern Long Island (Suffolk County) who were subject to Dutch law.<ref name="Scheltema-Westerhuijs 2011" /> After the capture of the colony by the English and its subsequent renaming as New York in 1664, the area (and all of Long Island) became known as Yorkshire.<ref name="Colonial-Laws 1894–96" />Template:Rp

The Flushing Remonstrance signed by colonists in 1657 is considered a precursor to the United States Constitution's provision on freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights. The signers protested the Dutch colonial authorities' persecution of Quakers in what is today the borough of Queens. Template:Long Island Originally, Queens County included the adjacent area now comprising Nassau County. It was an original county of New York State, one of twelve created on November 1, 1683.<ref name="Colonial-Laws 1894–96" />Template:Rp The county is presumed to have been named after Catherine of Braganza, since she was queen of England at the time (she was Portugal's royal princess Catarina, daughter of King John IV of Portugal).<ref name="NY.com 1999 May 8" /> The county was founded alongside Kings County (Brooklyn, which was named after her husband, King Charles II), and Richmond County (Staten Island, named after his illegitimate son, the 1st Duke of Richmond).<ref name="Room 1997–2006" /><ref name="Antos 2009" /><ref name="Mushabac-Wigan 1997" /> However, the namesake is disputed. While Catherine's title seems the most likely namesake, no historical evidence of official declaration has been found.<ref name="NYTs 2002 Jan 27" /> On October 7, 1691, all counties in the Colony of New York were redefined. Queens gained North and South Brother Islands as well as Huletts Island (today known as Rikers Island).<ref name="Colonial-Laws 1894–96" />Template:Rp On December 3, 1768, Queens gained other islands in Long Island Sound that were not already assigned to a county but that did not abut on Westchester County (today's Bronx County).<ref name="Colonial-Laws 1894–96" />Template:Rp

Queens played a minor role in the American Revolution, as compared to Brooklyn, where the Battle of Long Island was largely fought. Queens, like the rest of what became New York City and Long Island, remained under British occupation after the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and was occupied throughout most of the rest of the Revolutionary War. Under the Quartering Act, British soldiers used, as barracks, the public inns and uninhabited buildings belonging to Queens residents. Even though many residents opposed unannounced quartering, they supported the British crown. The quartering of soldiers in private homes, except in times of war, was banned by the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution. Nathan Hale was captured by the British on the shore of Flushing Bay and hanged in Manhattan.

From 1683 until 1784, Queens County consisted of five towns: Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica, Newtown, and Oyster Bay. On April 6, 1784, a sixth town, the Town of North Hempstead, was formed through secession by the northern portions of the Town of Hempstead.<ref name="Greenspan" /><ref name="French 1860" /> The seat of the county government was located first in Jamaica,<ref name="5-boro-history" /> but the courthouse was torn down by the British during the American Revolution to use the materials to build barracks.<ref name="McCurdy 2019" /> After the war, various buildings in Jamaica temporarily served as courthouse and jail until a new building was erected about 1787 (and later completed) in an area near Mineola (now in Nassau County) known then as Clowesville.<ref name="Seyfried-Peterson" /><ref name="Peterson-Seyfried 1983–1987" /><ref name="NY-Local-Government-Handbook" />

The 1850 United States census was the first in which the population of the three western towns exceeded that of the three eastern towns that are now part of Nassau County. Concerns were raised about the condition and distance of the old courthouse, and several sites were in contention for the construction of a new one.<ref name="NYTs 1872 Feb 25" />

In 1870, Long Island City split from the Town of Newtown, incorporating itself as a city, consisting of what had been the village of Astoria and some unincorporated areas within the town of Newtown. Around 1874, the seat of county government was moved to Long Island City from Mineola.<ref name="Newsday 1998 Feb 22" /><ref name="Queens-Tribune 2004" /><ref name="Newsday 2007 Mar 29" /><ref name="NYTs 1874 Feb 9" />

On March 1, 1860, the eastern border between Queens County (later Nassau County) and Suffolk County was redefined with no discernible change.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1860" /> On June 8, 1881, North Brother Island was transferred to New York County.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1881" /> On May 8, 1884, Rikers Island was transferred to New York County.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1884" />

In 1886, Lloyd's Neck, which was then part of the town of Oyster Bay and had earlier been known as Queens Village, was set off and separated from Queens County and annexed to the town of Huntington in Suffolk County.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1886" /><ref name="Beers-maps 1873" /><ref name="Lloyd-Harbor-Brief-History" /> On April 16, 1964, South Brother Island was transferred to Bronx County.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1964 Vol 2" />

Incorporation as borough

Template:See also The New York City borough of Queens was authorized on May 4, 1897, by a vote of the New York State Legislature after an 1894 referendum on consolidation.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1897" /> The eastern Template:Convert of Queens that became Nassau County was partitioned on January 1, 1899.<ref name="Laws-of-NY 1898 Vol 2" /> Queens Borough was established on January 1, 1898.<ref name="Inventing-Gotham 2007" /><ref name="NYTs 1894 Dec 15" /><ref name="Sullivan 1927 p342"/>

"The city of Long Island City, the towns of Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica, and that part of the town of Hempstead, in the county of Queens, which is westerly of a straight line drawn through the middle of the channel between Rockaway Beach and Shelter Island, in the county of Queens, to the Atlantic Ocean" was annexed to New York City,<ref name="Greater-NY-Charter Weed-Parsons 1897" /> dissolving all former municipal governments (Long Island City, the county government, all towns, and all villages) within the new borough.<ref name="NYG&B-Newsletter 1998 Winter" /> The areas of Queens County that were not part of the consolidation plan,<ref name="Newsday 2007 Mar 29" /><ref name="NYTs 1894 Sep 13" /><ref name="NYTs 1894 Oct 16" /><ref name="NYTs 1894 Nov 4" /><ref name="NYTs 1894 Nov 8" /><ref name="NYTs 1896 Feb 22" /><ref name="NYTs 1899 Feb 12" /> consisting of the towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, and the major remaining portion of the Town of Hempstead, remained part of Queens County until they seceded to form the new Nassau County on January 1, 1899. At this point, the boundaries of Queens County and the Borough of Queens became coterminous. With consolidation, Jamaica once again became the county seat, though county offices now extend to nearby Kew Gardens also.<ref name="NYTs 1896 Jun 7" />

In 1899, New York City conducted a land survey to determine the exact border of Queens between the Rockaways and Lawrence. This proved difficult because the border was defined as "middle of the channel between Rockaway Beach and Shelter Island" (now called Long Beach Island), and that particular channel had closed up by 1899. The surveyors had to determine where the channel had been when the consolidation law was written in 1894. The surveyors did so in part by speaking with local fishermen and oystermen who knew the area well.<ref name="NYTs 1899 Feb 12" />

From 1905 to 1908, the Long Island Rail Road in Queens became electrified. Transportation to and from Manhattan, previously by ferry or via bridges in Brooklyn, opened up with the Queensboro Bridge finished in 1909, and with railway tunnels under the East River in 1910. From 1915 onward, much of Queens was connected to the New York City Subway system.<ref name="Seyfried-Peterson" /><ref name="Seyfried 2004" /> With the 1915 construction of the Steinway Tunnel carrying the IRT Flushing Line between Queens and Manhattan, and the robust expansion of the use of the automobile, the population of Queens more than doubled in the 1920s, from 469,042 in 1920 to 1,079,129 in 1930.<ref name="Gibson 1998 Jun" />

In later years, Queens was the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1964 New York World's Fair.<ref>Flushing Meadows Corona Park World's Fair Legacy; Celebrating the Enduring Legacy of the 1939 and 1964 Fairs, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Accessed January 17, 2024. "In 1939, and again in 1964, Flushing Meadows Corona Park hosted two of the largest international exhibitions ever held in the United States."</ref> LaGuardia Airport, established on a site in northern Queens that had been a seaplane base, opened in 1939, named for mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who pushed for the development of a modern airport in New York City.<ref>Cross, Lee. "12/02/1939: New York's LaGuardia Airport Begins Operations", Airways Magazine, December 2, 2023. "In 1939, New York City's LaGuardia Airport (LGA) opened for business in East Elmhurst, Queens. The aviation history of the site in Queens can be traced back to June 1929, when New York Air Terminal Inc. established a seaplane base. The facility underwent several developments and name changes, including being renamed Glenn H. Curtiss Airport in September 1930 and later North Beach Airport in 1935. However, it was Fiorello LaGuardia, the newly elected mayor, who played a significant role in transforming the airport."</ref> Idlewild Airport, in southern Queens, opened in 1948 on the site of a former golf course and was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1963.<ref>Idlewild Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed January 17, 2024. "Construction on Idlewild Airport began in 1942 on the former site of Idlewild Golf Course in Queens.... After six years of construction, the airport opened on July 1, 1948 and was dedicated by President Truman on July 31, 1948.... Although it continued to be known popularly as "Idlewild," New York International Airport was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963, following resolutions by Mayor Robert F. Wagner, the City Council, and the Commissioners of the Port Authority."</ref> In one of several notable incidents, TWA Flight 800 took off from the airport on July 17, 1996, and exploded in midair off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 on board the Boeing 747.<ref>Trans World Airways Flight 800, N93119, Federal Aviation Administration. Accessed January 17, 1996. Accessed January 17, 2024. "On July 17, 1996, at 2031 EDT, a Boeing 747-131, N93119, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean about eight miles south of East Moriches, New York after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The airplane was being operated on a regularly scheduled flight to Charles De Gaulle International Airport (CDG), Paris, France, as Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800.... On board the airplane were 212 passengers and 18 crewmembers. The airplane was destroyed by explosion, fire, and impact forces with the ocean. All 230 people aboard were killed."</ref> American Airlines Flight 587 took off from the latter airport on November 12, 2001, but ended up crashing in Belle Harbor, killing all 260 on board and five people on the ground.<ref>Disasters New York City (NYC) American Airlines Flight 587 Crash - 2001, Baruch College. Accessed January 17, 2024. " Two months following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a plane crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens and reignited the fear and broken hearts of Americans. On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 (Airbus A300) made its ascent into a clear blue sky and was bound for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with 260 people on board. At approximately 9:17 a.m., the plane spiraled out of control and crashed in Belle Harbor, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground."</ref> In late October 2012, much of Breezy Point was damaged by a massive six-alarm fire caused by Hurricane Sandy, the largest fire of residential homes in FDNY history, destroying 126 homes in an area where every building was damaged by either water, wind or the resulting fires.<ref>"Conflagration in Breezy Point Queens; Superstorm Sandy illustrates the full spectrum of Fire Department of New York (FDNY) preparedness and response capabilities along with its commitment to community recovery.", Fire Engineering, May 1, 2013. Accessed July 17, 2024. "Hurricane Sandy's high winds coupled with the storm surge that created an electrical short in one home. The short then triggered the conflagration in Breezy Point, which destroyed 126 homes and damaged 22 others, making it the largest private-residential fire in the department's history. The fires combined with the storm surge accounted for the complete destruction of more than 10 percent of the 2,837 homes in Breezy Point. Overall, every structure in this small beach community received significant damage from fire, water, or wind."</ref> Template:Wide image

Geography

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Location of Queens (red) within New York City

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Aerial view of Queens looking north from John F. Kennedy International Airport

Queens is located on the far western portion of geographic Long Island and includes a few smaller islands, most of which are in Jamaica Bay, forming part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, which in turn is one of the National Parks of New York Harbor.<ref name="National-Park-Service Jamaica-Bay-Unit-info" /> According to the United States Census Bureau, Queens County has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert (39%) is water.<ref name="USGazetteer 2012 Aug 22" />

Brooklyn, the only other New York City borough on Long Island, lies just south and west of Queens. Newtown Creek, an estuary that flows into the East River, forms part of the border. To the west and north is the East River, across which is Manhattan to the west and The Bronx to the north. Nassau County is east of Queens on Long Island. Staten Island is southwest of Brooklyn, and shares only a three-mile-long water border (in the Outer Bay) with Queens. North of Queens are Flushing Bay and the Flushing River, connecting to the East River. The East River opens into Long Island Sound. The midsection of Queens is crossed by the Long Island straddling terminal moraine created by the Wisconsin Glacier. The Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost part of all of Queens, sits between Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, featuring Template:Convert of beaches.<ref name="QueensMamas 2011 May 28" /><ref name="Newsday 1994 Feb 22" />

Climate

Under the Köppen climate classification, Queens has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) transitoring the humid continental (Köppen climate classification Dfa) ; with partial shielding from the Appalachian Mountains and moderating influences from the Atlantic Ocean. Queens receives precipitation throughout the year, with an average of Template:Convert per year. In an average year, there will be 44 days with either moderate or heavy rain.<ref name= climatedata-lga/>

An average winter will have 22 days with some snowfall, of which nine days have at least Template:Convert of snowfall.<ref name= climatedata-lga/> Summer is typically hot, humid, and wet. An average year will have 17 days with a high temperature of Template:Convert or warmer.<ref name= climatedata-lga>"Climatological Report (Annual): LaGuardia NY". National Weather Service. Retrieved August 4, 2018.</ref> In an average year, there are 14 days on which the temperature does not go above Template:Convert all day.<ref name= climatedata-lga/> Spring and autumn can vary from chilly to very warm.

The highest temperature ever recorded at LaGuardia Airport was Template:Convert on July 3, 1966.<ref name="NYTs 1966 Jul 4" /><ref name= climatedata-lga/> The highest temperature ever recorded at John F. Kennedy International Airport was Template:Convert, also on July 3, 1966.<ref name="NYTs 1966 Jul 4" /><ref name= climatedata-jfk>"Climatological Report (Annual): LaGuardia NY". National Weather Service. Retrieved August 4, 2018.</ref> LaGuardia Airport's record-low temperature was Template:Convert on February 15, 1943, the effect of which was exacerbated by a shortage of heating oil and coal.<ref name= climatedata-lga/><ref name="NYTs 1943 Feb 16" /> John F. Kennedy International Airport's record-low temperature was Template:Convert, on February 8, 1963, and January 21, 1985.<ref name= climatedata-jfk/><ref name="NYTs 1963 Feb 9" /><ref name="NYTs 1985 Jan 21" /> On January 24, 2016, Template:Convert of snow fell, which is the record in Queens.<ref name="WaPo 2016 Jan 25" />

Tornadoes are generally rare; the most recent tornado, an EF0, touched down in College Point on August 3, 2018, causing minor damage.<ref name="AM-New-York 2018 Aug 3" /> Before that, there was a tornado in Breezy Point on September 8, 2012, which damaged the roofs of some homes,<ref name="NYDaily 2012 Sep 9" /> and an EF1 tornado in Flushing on September 26, 2010.<ref name="NYDaily 2010 Sep 26" /> Template:Queens airports weatherbox

Neighborhoods

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A residential street in Jackson Heights

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Long Island City, a neighborhood in western Queens

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Forest Hills Gardens

Four United States Postal Service postal zones serve Queens, based roughly on those serving the towns in existence at the consolidation of the five boroughs into New York City: Long Island City (ZIP codes starting with 111), Jamaica (114), Flushing (113), and Far Rockaway (116). Also, the Floral Park post office (110), based in Nassau County, serves a small part of northeastern Queens. Each of these main post offices has neighborhood stations with individual ZIP codes, and unlike the other boroughs, these station names are often used in addressing letters. These ZIP codes do not always reflect traditional neighborhood names and boundaries; "East Elmhurst", for example, was largely coined by the USPS and is not an official community.Template:Citation needed Most neighborhoods have no solid boundaries. The Forest Hills and Rego Park neighborhoods, for instance, overlap.

Residents of Queens often closely identify with their neighborhood rather than with the borough or city. The borough is a patchwork of dozens of unique neighborhoods, each with its own distinct identity: Template:Div col

1. Flushing, one of the largest neighborhoods in Queens, has a large and growing Asian community. The community consists of Chinese, Koreans, and South Asians. Asians have now expanded eastward along the Northern Boulevard axis through Murray Hill, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston–Little Neck, and eventually into adjacent Nassau County.<ref name="Forbes 2014 Apr 10"/><ref name="Bloomberg-News 2014 Oct 27" /> These neighborhoods historically contained Italian Americans and Greeks, as well as Latino Americans. The busy intersection of Main Street, Kissena Boulevard, and 41st Avenue defines the center of Downtown Flushing and the Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), known as the "Chinese Times Square" or the "Chinese Manhattan".<ref name="NYTs 2014 Oct 1" /><ref name="NYTs 2018 Aug 25" /> The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, punctuated by the Long Island Rail Road trestle overpass, represents the cultural heart of the Flushing Chinatown. Housing over 25,000 individuals born in China alone, Flushing has become home to one of the largest Chinatowns, representing the largest Chinese population of any U.S. municipality other than New York City in total.<ref name="Business-Insider 2015 May 27" />
2. Howard Beach, Whitestone, and Middle Village are home to large Italian American populations.
3. Ozone Park and South Ozone Park have large Italian, Hispanic, and Guyanese populations.
4. Rockaway Beach has a large Irish American population.
5. Astoria, in the northwest, is traditionally home to one of the largest Greek populations outside Greece. It also has large Spanish American and Italian American communities, and is home to a growing population of immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia, the Balkans as well as young professionals from Manhattan. Nearby Long Island City is a major commercial center and the home to Queensbridge, the largest housing project in North America.
6. Maspeth and Ridgewood are home to many Eastern European immigrants such as Romanian, Polish, Serbian, Albanian, and other Slavic populations. Ridgewood also has a large Hispanic population.
7. Jackson Heights and Elmhurst make up a conglomeration of Hispanic, Asian, Tibetan, and South Asian communities. Jackson Heights is also known as "Little Colombia" thanks to the gastronomical and demographic impact of Colombian people.<ref name="NY1 2019 Oct 7" />
8. Woodside is home to a large Filipino American community and has a "Little Manila" as well a large Irish American population. Many Filipino Americans live in Hollis and Queens Village.
9. Richmond Hill, in the south, is often thought of as "Little Guyana" for its large Guyanese community,<ref name="NYTs 2002 Jan 13" /> as well as Punjab Avenue (ਪੰਜਾਬ ਐਵੇਨਿਊ), or Little Punjab, for its high concentration of Punjabi people.
10. Rego Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, and Kew Gardens Hills have traditionally large Jewish populations (historically from Germany and Eastern Europe; though more recent immigrants are from Israel, Iran, and the former Soviet Union). These neighborhoods are also known for large and growing Asian communities, mainly immigrants from China.
11. Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Hillcrest, Fresh Meadows, and Hollis Hills are also populated with many people of Jewish background. Many Asian families reside in parts of Fresh Meadows as well.
12. Jamaica is home to large African American, Caribbean, and Central American populations. There are also middle-class African American and Caribbean neighborhoods such as Saint Albans, Queens Village, Cambria Heights, Springfield Gardens, Rosedale, Laurelton, and Briarwood along east and southeast Queens.
13. Bellerose and Floral Park, originally home to many Irish Americans, is home to a growing South Asian population, predominantly Indian Americans.
14. Corona and Corona Heights, once considered the "Little Italy" of Queens, was a predominantly Italian community with a strong African American community in the northern portion of Corona and adjacent East Elmhurst. From the 1920s through the 1960s, Corona remained a close-knit neighborhood. Corona today has the highest concentration of Latinos of any Queens neighborhood, with an increasing Chinese American population, located between Elmhurst and Flushing.<ref name="McGlinn 2002" />

Demographics

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White	25.8%	39.7%	57.9%	85.3%	96.5%
—Non-Hispanic	22.8%	27.6%	48.0%	n/a	n/a
Black or African American	16.8%	19.1%	21.7%	13.0%	3.3%
Hispanic or Latino (of any race)	27.8%	27.5%	19.5%	7.7%<ref>From 15% sample</ref>	n/a
Asian	27.5%	22.9%	12.2%	1.1%	0.1%

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The Elmhurst Chinatown (艾姆赫斯特 唐人街) at the corner of Broadway and Dongan Avenue

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Astoria, a largely Greek-American neighborhood

At the 2020 census, 2,405,464 people lived in Queens. In 2018's American Community Survey, the population of Queens was estimated by the United States Census Bureau to have increased to 2,278,906, a rise of 2.2%. Queens' estimated population represented 27.1% of New York City's population of 8,398,748; 29.6% of Long Island's population of 7,701,172; and 11.7% of New York State's population of 19,542,209. The 2019 estimates reported a decline to 2,253,858.<ref name="USCensus-Queens Demographic-Housing 2020" /> In 2018, there were 865,878 housing units, and 777,904 households, 2.97 persons per household, and a median value of $481,300. There was an owner-occupancy rate of 44.5.<ref name="USCensus-Queens Demographic-Housing 2020" /> In the 2010 United States census, Queens recorded a population of 2,230,722. There were 780,117 households enumerated, with an average of 2.82 persons per household. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 835,127 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert.

The racial makeup of the county in 2010 was 39.7% White, 19.1% Black or African American, 0.7% Native American, 22.9% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 12.9% from other races, and 4.5% from two or more races. A total of 27.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latin American of any race. The non-Hispanic white population was 27.6%.<ref name="factfinder.census.gov" /> In 2019, non-Hispanic whites made up an estimated 24.4% of the population, and Blacks or African Americans were 17.3%.<ref name="USCensus-Queens Demographic-Housing 2020" /> The largest minority groups for the borough were Hispanic and Latin Americans (28.2%), and Asians (26.0%).

In Queens, residents consisted of 6.2% under 5, 13.9% 6–18, 64.2% 19–64, and 15.7% over 65. Females made up 51.5% of the population. An estimated 47.5% of residents are foreign-born in 2018. The per capita income was $28,814, and the median household income was $62,008. In 2018, 12.2% of residents lived below the poverty line.

The New York City Department of City Planning was alarmed by the negligible reported increase in population between 2000 and 2010. Areas with high proportions of immigrants and undocumented aliens are traditionally undercounted for a variety of reasons, often based on a mistrust of government officials or an unwillingness to be identified. In many cases, counts of vacant apartment units did not match data from local surveys and reports from property owners.<ref name="NYTs 2011 May 24" />

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Ethnic origins in Queens

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Ethnic groups

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Little India in Jackson Heights

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Ridgewood is home to a large Puerto Rican community

According to a 2001 Claritas study, Queens was the most diverse county in the United States among counties of 100,000+ population.<ref name="Business-Wire 2001 Jul 23" /> A 2014 analysis by The Atlantic found Queens County to be the third most racially diverse county-equivalent in the United States—behind Aleutians West Census Area and Aleutians East Borough in Alaska—as well as the most diverse county in New York.<ref name="Narula 2014 apr 29" /> Meanwhile, a 2017 study by Axios found that, although numerous smaller counties in the United States had higher rates of diversity, Queens was the United States' most diverse populous county.<ref name="Axios 2019 Jul 4" />

In Queens, approximately 48.5% of the population was foreign born as of 2010. Within the foreign born population, 49.5% were born in Latin America, 33.5% in Asia, 14.8% in Europe, 1.8% in Africa, and 0.4% in North America. Roughly 2.1% of the population was born in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, or abroad to American parents. In addition, 51.2% of the population was born in the United States. Approximately 44.2% of the population over 5 years of age speak English at home; 23.8% speak Spanish at home. Also, 16.8% of the populace speak other Indo-European languages at home. Another 13.5% speak a non-Indo-European Asian language or language of the Pacific Islands at home.<ref name="USCensus-Queens languages 2020" />

Among the Asian population in 2010, people of Chinese ethnicity made up the largest ethnic group at 10.2% of Queens' population, with about 237,484 people; the other East and Southeast Asian groups are: Koreans (2.9%), Filipinos (1.7%), Japanese (0.3%), Thais (0.2%), Vietnamese (0.2%), and Indonesians and Burmese both make up 0.1% of the population.<ref name="USCensus-Queens 2010" /> People of South Asian descent made up 7.8% of Queens' population: Indians (5.3%), Bangladeshi (1.5%), Pakistanis (0.7%), and Nepali (0.2%).<ref name="USCensus-Queens 2010" /> In 2019, Chinese Americans remained the largest Asian ethnicity (10.9%) followed by Asian Indians (5.7%).<ref name="USCensus-Queens Demographic-Housing 2020" /> Asian Indians had estimated population of 144,896 in 2014 (6.24% of the 2014 borough population),<ref name="USCensus-Queens-Asian-Indian-Alone 2014" /> as well as Pakistani Americans, who numbered at 15,604.<ref name="AAFNY 2019" /> Queens has the second largest Sikh population in the nation after California.<ref name="WSJ 2010 Aug 20" />

Among the Hispanic or Latin American population, Puerto Ricans made up the largest ethnic group at 4.6%, next to Mexicans, who made up 4.2% of the population, and Dominicans at 3.9%. Central Americans made up 2.4% and are mostly Salvadorans. South Americans constitute 9.6% of Queens's population, mainly of Ecuadorian (4.4%) and Colombian descent (4.2%).<ref name="USCensus-Queens 2010" /> The 2019 American Community Survey estimated Mexicans and Puerto Ricans were equally the largest groups (4.5% each) in Queens, and Cuban Americans were the third largest single group. Other Hispanic and Latinos collectively made up 18.9% of the population.<ref name="USCensus-Queens Demographic-Housing 2020" /> The Hispanic or Latino population increased by 61% to 597,773 between 1990 and 2006 and now accounts for over 26.5% of the borough's population.

Queens has the largest Colombian population in the city, accounting for over 35.6% of the city's total Colombian population, for a total of 145,956 in 2019;<ref name="NY1 2019 Oct 7" /> it also has the largest Ecuadorian population in the city, accounting for 62.2% of the city's total Ecuadorian population, for a total of 101,339. Queens has the largest Peruvian population in the city, accounting for 69.9% of the city's total Peruvian population, for a total of 30,825. Queens has the largest Salvadoran population in the city, accounting for 50.7% of the city for a total population of 25,235. The Mexican population in Queens has increased 45.7% since 2011 to 71,283, the second-highest in the city, after Brooklyn.<ref name="Chan 2005" />

Queens is also home to 49.6% of the city's Asian population. Among the five boroughs, Queens has the largest population of Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Bangladeshi and Pakistani Americans. Queens has the largest Asian American population by county outside the Western United States; according to the 2006 American Community Survey, Queens ranks fifth among US counties with 477,772 (21.18%) Asian Americans, behind Los Angeles County, California, Honolulu County, Hawaii, Santa Clara County, California, and Orange County, California.

Some main European ancestries in Queens as of 2000 include: Italian (8.4%), Irish (5.5%), German (3.5%), Polish (2.7%), Russian (2.3%), and Greek (2.0%). Of the European American population, Queens has the third largest Bosnian population in the United States behind only St. Louis and Chicago, numbering more than 15,000.<ref name="Quinnipiac-Chronicle 2012 Feb 22" /> Queens is home to some 50,000 Armenian Americans.<ref name="NY AGBU">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Jewish Community Study of New York 2011, sponsored by the UJA-Federation of New York, found that about 9% of Queens residents were Jews.<ref name="Cohen 2012 Jun" /> In 2011, there were about 198,000 Jews in Queens, making it home to about 13% of all people in Jewish households in the eight-county area consisting of the Five Boroughs and Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.<ref name="Cohen 2012 Jun" /> Russian-speaking Jews make up 28% of the Jewish population in Queens, the largest in any of the eight counties.<ref name="Cohen 2012 Jun p-227" />

In Queens, the Black and African American population earns more than non-Hispanic whites on average.<ref name="NYTs 2006 Oct 1" /> Many of these Blacks and African Americans live in quiet, middle-class suburban neighborhoods near the Nassau County border, such as Laurelton and Cambria Heights, which have large Black populations whose family income is higher than average. The migration of European Americans from parts of Queens has been long ongoing with departures from Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Bellerose, Floral Park, and Flushing (most of the outgoing population has been replaced with Asian Americans). Neighborhoods such as Whitestone, College Point, North Flushing, Auburndale, Bayside, Middle Village, and Douglaston–Little Neck have not had a substantial exodus of white residents, but have seen an increase of Asian population, mostly Chinese and Korean. Queens has experienced a real estate boom making most of its neighborhoods desirable for people who want to reside near Manhattan but in a less urban setting.

Languages

According to the office of the New York State Comptroller in 2000, 138 languages are spoken in the borough.<ref name="Queens-Economic-Review 2000" /> The 2021 American Community Survey by the United States Census Bureau, found that – of those over the age of five residing in Queens – 54.53% spoke a language other than English in the home. The following tables shows the 15 most common non-English languages in Queens, with the most prominent being Spanish, Chinese, and Bengali.

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Religion

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Rocket Thrower (1963) at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

In 2010 statistics, the largest religious group in Queens was the Diocese of Brooklyn, with 677,520 Roman Catholics worshiping at 100 parishes, followed by an estimated 81,456 Muslims with 57 congregations, 80,000 Orthodox Jews with 110 congregations, 33,325 non-denominational Christian adherents with 129 congregations, 28,085 AME Methodists with 14 congregations, 24,250 Greek Orthodox with 6 congregations, 16,775 Hindus with 18 congregations, 13,989 AoG Pentecostals with 64 congregations, 13,507 Seventh-day Adventists with 45 congregations, and 12,957 Mahayana Buddhists with 26 congregations. Altogether, 49.4% of the population was claimed as members by religious congregations, although members of historically African American denominations were underrepresented due to incomplete information.<ref name="Religion-stats 2010" /> In 2014, Queens had 738 religious organizations, the thirteenth most out of all U.S. counties.<ref name="Penn-State 2014" />

Culture

Queens has been the center of the punk rock movement, particularly in New York; Ramones originated out of Forest Hills,<ref name="Queens-Museum 2016 Jul 23" /> it has also been the home of such notable artists as Tony Bennett, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Simon, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Queens Poet Laureates (generally, 3-year appointments):

• 1997–2001: Stephen Stepanchev (inaugural Poet Laureate)
• 2001–2004: Hal Sirowitz (born 1949)
• 2004–2007: Ishle Yi Park
• 2007–2010: Julio Marzan
• 2010–2014: Paolo Javier
• 2015–2019: Maria Lisella<ref name="Past-Poet-Laureates 2019" />

Queens has notably fostered African American culture, with establishments such as The Afrikan Poetry Theatre and the Black Spectrum Theater Company catering specifically to African Americans in Queens.<ref name="Afrikan-Poetry-Theatre-info" /><ref name="Black-Spectrum-Theater-info" /> In the 1940s, Queens was an important center of jazz; such jazz luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Ella Fitzgerald took up residence in Queens, seeking refuge from the segregation they found elsewhere in New York.<ref name="Dominion 2011 Sep 6" /> Additionally, many notable hip-hop acts hail from Queens, including Nas, Run-D.M.C., Kool G Rap, A Tribe Called Quest, LL Cool J, MC Shan, Mobb Deep, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Tony Yayo, Tragedy Khadafi, N.O.R.E., Lloyd Banks, Capone, Ja Rule, Heems of Das Racist and Action Bronson.

Queens hosts various museums and cultural institutions that serve its diverse communities. They range from the historical (such as the John Bowne House) to the scientific (such as the New York Hall of Science), from conventional art galleries (such as the Noguchi Museum) to unique graffiti exhibits (such as 5 Pointz). Queens's cultural institutions include, but are not limited to: Template:Columns-list

The travel magazine Lonely Planet also named Queens the top destination in the country for 2015 for its cultural and culinary diversity.<ref name="NYDaily 2014 Dec 11" /> Stating that Queens is "quickly becoming its hippest" but that "most travelers haven't clued in... yet,"<ref name="Lonely-Planet 2014 Dec 10" /> the Lonely Planet stated that "nowhere is the image of New York as the global melting pot truer than Queens."<ref name="NYC-Lens 2015 Apr 24" />

Food

The cuisine available in Queens reflects its vast cultural diversity. The cuisine of a particular neighborhood often represents its demographics; for example, Astoria hosts many Greek restaurants, in keeping with its traditionally Greek population.<ref name="Nycgo-Must-See-Astoria" /> Jackson Heights is known for its prominent Indian cuisine and also many Latin American eateries.<ref name="Spiller-Queens-Menus-Project 2019" />

The Queens Night Market in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, operating since 2015 on Saturdays from April to October (with a break from late August to mid-September), offers samples of food capped at $6 from dozens of countries with attendance of up to 20,000 a night.<ref name="TimeOut 2018 Mar 11" /><ref>Meditz, Stephanie G. "Queens Night Market is cultural, affordable", Queens Chronicle, November 16, 2023. Accessed January 17, 2024. "Queens Night Market founder John Wang said he implemented a $5 price cap on food when the market launched in 2015, followed by a $6 exception in 2017 that still exists thanks to Citizens, this year's primary sponsor that subsidized entry fees for vendors. He believes that, though attendees overwhelmingly said they attend for the cultural experience, Queens Night Market's affordability attracts nearly 20,000 people per night."</ref><ref>Lin, Sidney. "The Worlds Within a Market: Stories of the Queens Night Market", The Science Survey, July 21, 2023. Accessed January 17, 2024. "After its beginning in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in April 2015, the Queens Night Market has run every year since (with the exception of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The market takes place on Saturday evenings from late April to late August, and then again from mid-September through late October."</ref>

Economy

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JetBlue's corporate headquarters in Queens

Queens has the second-largest economy of New York City's five boroughs, following Manhattan. In 2004, Queens had 15.2% (440,310) of all private-sector jobs in New York City and 8.8% of private-sector wages. In 2012, private-sector employment increased to 486,160.<ref name="DiNapoli 2013 Dec" /> Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs, with occupations spread relatively evenly across the health care, retail trade, manufacturing, construction, transportation, and film and television production sectors, such that no single sector is overwhelmingly dominant.<ref name="state1" />

The diversification in Queens' economy is reflected in a large amount of employment in the export-oriented portions of its economy—such as transportation, manufacturing, and business services—that serve customers outside the region. This accounts for more than 27% of all Queens jobs and offers an average salary of $43,727, 14% greater than that of jobs in the locally oriented sector.

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The borough's largest employment sector—trade, transportation, and utilities—accounted for nearly 30% of all jobs in 2004; in 2012, its largest employment sector became health care and social services.<ref name="DiNapoli 2013 Dec" /> Queens is home to two of the three major New York City area airports, JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. These airports are among the busiest in the world, leading the airspace above Queens to be the most congested in the country. This airline industry is particularly important to the economy of Queens, providing almost one-quarter of the sector's employment and more than 30% of the sector's wages.

Education and health services were the next largest sector in Queens and comprised almost 24% of the borough's jobs in 2004; in 2012, transportation and warehousing, and retail were the second largest at 12% each.<ref name="DiNapoli 2013 Dec" /> The manufacturing and construction industries in Queens are among the largest of the city and accounted for nearly 17% of the borough's private sector jobs in 2004. Comprising almost 17% of the jobs in Queens is the information, financial activities, and business and professional services sectors in 2004.

Template:As of, Queens had almost 40,000 business establishments. Small businesses act as an important part of the borough's economic vitality with two-thirds of all businesses employing between one and four people.

Several large companies have their headquarters in Queens, including watchmaker Bulova, based in East Elmhurst; internationally renowned piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons in Astoria; Glacéau, the makers of Vitamin Water, headquartered in Whitestone; and JetBlue Airways, an airline based in Long Island City.

Long Island City is a major manufacturing and back-office center. Flushing is a major commercial hub for Chinese American and Korean American businesses, while Jamaica is the major civic and transportation hub for the borough.

Sports

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Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets

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Arthur Ashe Stadium during the 2014 US Open

Queens is home of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Founded in 1962 as an expansion team, the Mets have won 2 World Series championships and 5 National League pennants. Citi Field is a 41,922-seat stadium opened in April 2009 in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park that is the home ballpark of the Mets.<ref name="Citi-Field" /> Shea Stadium, the former home of the Mets and the New York Jets of the National Football League, as well as the temporary home of the New York Yankees and the New York Giants Football Team stood where Citi Field's parking lot is now located, operating from 1964 to 2008.<ref name="NYTs 2009 Apr 4" /> Queens is the future home of the Etihad Park for New York City FC of Major League Soccer, which is expected to be completed in 2027.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The U.S. Open tennis tournament has been played since 1978 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, located just south of Citi Field.<ref name="Rennert 2009" /> With a capacity of 23,771, Arthur Ashe Stadium is the biggest tennis stadium in the world.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jun 10" /> The U.S. Open was formerly played at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills.<ref name="6sqft 2015 Sep 1" /> South Ozone Park is the home of Aqueduct Racetrack, which is operated by the New York Racing Association, and offers Thoroughbred horse racing from late October/early November through April.<ref name="Aqueduck-Racetrack-info" /> (The Belmont Park racetrack and the adjacent UBS Arena (home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League) sit entirely in Nassau County, just over the City line; however, small sections of the properties of both venues are in Queens, as is the Belmont Park station of the Long Island Rail Road.)

Government

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Party	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002	2001	2000	1999	1998	1997	1996
Democratic	62.97%	62.94	62.52	62.85	62.79	62.99	62.52	62.30	62.27	62.28	62.33
Republican	14.47%	14.60	14.66	14.97	15.04	15.28	15.69	16.47	16.74	16.93	17.20
Other	3.86%	3.88	3.93	3.94	3.86	3.37	3.30	3.10	3.20	3.02	2.78
No affiliation	18.70%	18.58	18.89	18.24	18.31	18.36	18.49	18.13	17.79	17.77	17.69

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Queens County Courthouse was built in 1938 and houses the borough's Supreme Court, Surrogate Court, and County Clerk.<ref name="Queens-Supreme-Courthouse-info" />

Since New York City's consolidation in 1898, Queens has been governed by the New York City Charter that provides for a strong mayor–council system. The centralized New York City government is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, water supply, and welfare services in Queens. The Queens Library is governed by a 19-member Board of Trustees, appointed by the Mayor of New York City and the Borough President of Queens.

Since 1990 the Borough President has acted as an advocate for the borough at the mayoral agencies, the City Council, the New York state government, and corporations. Queens' Borough President is Donovan Richards, elected in November 2020 as a Democrat. Queens Borough Hall is the seat of government and is located in Kew Gardens.

The Democratic Party holds most public offices. Sixty-three percent of registered Queens voters are Democrats. Local party platforms center on affordable housing, education, and economic development. Controversial political issues in Queens include development, noise, and the cost of housing.

Each of the city's five counties has its criminal court system and District Attorney, the chief public prosecutor who is directly elected by popular vote. Richard A. Brown, who ran on both the Republican and Democratic Party tickets, was the District Attorney of Queens County from 1991 to 2018. The new DA as of January 2020 is Melinda Katz.<ref name="Queens-DA-info 2020 Jan 6" /> Queens has 12 seats on the New York City Council, the second-largest number among the five boroughs. It is divided into 14 community districts, each served by a local Community Board. Community Boards are representative bodies that field complaints and serve as advocates for residents.

Although Queens is heavily Democratic, it is considered a swing county in New York politics. Republican political candidates who do well in Queens usually win citywide or statewide elections. Republicans such as former Mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg won majorities in Queens. Republican State Senator Serphin Maltese represented a district in central and southern Queens for twenty years until his defeat in 2008 by Democratic City Councilman Joseph Addabbo Jr. In 2002, Queens voted against incumbent Republican Governor of New York George Pataki in favor of his Democratic opponent, Carl McCall by a slim margin.<ref name="Election-Gov-Lt-Gov 2002" />

On the national level, Queens has not voted for a Republican candidate in a presidential election since 1972, when Queens voters chose Richard Nixon over George McGovern. From 1996 until 2024, Democratic presidential candidates have received over 70% of the popular vote in Queens, with Kamala Harris being the first Democrat to receive less than 70% of the borough's votes since Bill Clinton in 1992.<ref name="NYTBOE-POTUS 2004–2020" /> Since the first election of Donald Trump in 2016, Queens has become known in the United States for its surge in progressive politics and grassroots campaigning.<ref name="WNYC-Venugopal 2019 Jun 28" /> Coincidentally during his third run for president in 2024, Trump cracked 37% in Queens. This was the strongest performance for a Republican since 1988 due to Trump's strong gains in NYC.

Federal representation

As of 2024, five Democrats represent Queens in the United States House of Representatives.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

• Tom Suozzi (first elected in 2016) represents New York's 3rd congressional district, which covers the northeast Queens neighborhoods of Little Neck, Whitestone, Glen Oaks, Queens Village and Floral Park. The district also covers the North Shore of Nassau County.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018"/>
• Gregory Meeks (first elected in 1998) represents New York's 5th congressional district, which covers the entire Rockaway Peninsula as well as the southeast Queens neighborhoods of Broad Channel, Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, Laurelton, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Springfield Gardens, and South Ozone Park. The district also includes John F. Kennedy International Airport.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018"/>
• Grace Meng (first elected in 2012) represents New York's 6th congressional district, which includes the central and eastern Queens neighborhoods of Auburndale, Bayside, Elmhurst, Flushing, Forest Hills, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Murray Hill, and Rego Park.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018"/>
• Nydia Velázquez (first elected in 1992) represents New York's 7th congressional district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Maspeth, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, Sunnyside and Long Island City. The district also covers central and western Brooklyn.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018"/>
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (first elected in 2018) represents New York's 14th congressional district, which includes the northwest Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, College Point, Corona, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Woodside, and Elmhurst. The district also covers the East Bronx.<ref name="govtrack.us 2018"/>

Housing

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Queensbridge Houses, a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens

The borough's diverse housing ranges from high-rise apartment buildings in some areas of western and central Queens, such as Forest Hills, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Astoria, and Long Island City; to lower-rise neighborhoods in the eastern part of the borough.<ref name="NYTs 2004 Feb 8" /><ref name="NYTs 2011 Nov 17" /> There were 911,957 housing units in 2022<ref name=QueensQuickFacts>QuickFacts Queens County, New York, United States Census Bureau. Accessed January 7, 2024.</ref> at an average density of Template:Convert. Affordable rental and co-operative housing units throughout the borough were created under the Mitchell–Lama Housing Program.<ref>Mitchell-Lama, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Accessed January 5, 2024.</ref> Public housing is administered by the New York City Housing Authority, which accounts for more than 30,000 residents in more than 15,300 units in 2023.<ref>NYCHA 2023 Fact Sheet, New York City Housing Authority, April 2023. Accessed January 5, 2024. Public Housing Borough Breakdown: Queens: 21 developments with 15,348 apartments and 30,452 residents"</ref>

Education

Elementary and secondary education

Elementary and secondary school education in Queens is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions. Non-charter public schools in the borough are managed by the New York City Department of Education,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} - Text list</ref> the largest public school system in the United States. Most private schools are affiliated with or identify themselves with the Roman Catholic or Jewish religious communities. Townsend Harris High School is a Queens public magnet high school for the humanities consistently ranked as among the top 100 high schools in the United States. One of the nine Specialized High Schools in New York City is located in Queens. Located in the York College, City University of New York Campus in Jamaica, the Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, which emphasizes both science and mathematics, ranks as one of the best high schools in both the state and the country. It is one of the smallest Specialized High Schools that requires an entrance exam, the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. The school has a student body of around 400 students.

Postsecondary institutions

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LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens

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Queens College is part of the City University of New York.

• LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), is known as "The World's Community College" for its diverse international student body representing more than 150 countries and speaking over 100 languages. The college has been named a National Institution of Excellence by the Policy Center on the First Year of College. In a 2003 benchmark survey, in the Large Community College category (8,000–14,999 students), LaGuardia was one of three community colleges ranked number one, nationally.<ref name="CCSSE 2003" /> The college hosts the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.
• Queens College is one of the elite colleges in the CUNY system. Established in 1937 to offer a strong liberal arts education to the residents of the borough, Queens College has over 16,000 students including more than 12,000 undergraduates and over 4,000 graduate students. Students from 120 countries speaking 66 different languages are enrolled at the school, which is located in Flushing. Queens College is also the host of CUNY's law school. The Queens College Campus is also the home of Townsend Harris High School and the Queens College School for Math, Science, and Technology (PS/IS 499).
• Queensborough Community College, originally part of the State University of New York, is in Bayside and is now part of CUNY. It prepares students to attend senior colleges mainly in the CUNY system.
• St. John's University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic university founded in 1870 by the Vincentian Fathers. With over 19,000 students, St. John's is known for its pharmacy, business and law programs as well as its men's basketball and soccer teams.
• Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is a private, cutting edge, degree-granting institution located across the Grand Central Parkway from LaGuardia Airport. Its presence underscores the importance of aviation to the Queens economy.
• York College is one of CUNY's leading general-purpose liberal arts colleges, granting bachelor's degrees in more than 40 fields, as well as a combined BS/MS degree in Occupational Therapy. Noted for its Health Sciences Programs York College is also home to the Northeast Regional Office of the Food and Drug Administration.

Queens Public Library

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A branch of the Queens Public Library in Flushing

The Queens Public Library is the public library system for the borough and one of three library systems serving New York City. Dating back to the foundation of the first Queens library in Flushing in 1858, the Queens Public Library is one of the largest public library systems in the United States. Separate from the New York Public Library, it is composed of 63 branches throughout the borough. In the fiscal year 2001, the Library achieved a circulation of 16.8 million. The Library has maintained the highest circulation of any city library in the country since 1985 and the highest circulation of any library in the nation since 1987. The Library maintains collections in many languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Haitian Creole, Polish, and six Indic languages, as well as smaller collections in 19 other languages.

Transportation

Template:See also According to 2011–2015 ACS microdata, 38% of Queens households did not own a car; the citywide rate is 55%.<ref name="NYers-and-Cars 2018 Apr 5" />

Vehicles for hire

As of 2019, the city had about 80,000 for-hire vehicles, of which, two-thirds were ride-hail – Uber, Lyft, Via, and Juno.<ref name="Wired 2019 Jun 15" /> Until the COVID-19 pandemic, the ride-hail car offered a ride-share option. There are about 13,500 traditional taxis (yellow cabs with medallions) in the city, 7,676 boro taxis, 38,791 black cars, 21,932 livery cars, 288 commuter vans, and 2,206 paratransit vehicles.

Roundtrip car sharing

Zipcar, and others, entered New York City market in 2002 offering roundtrip car sharing from private locations, mostly from parking garages. In 2018, the city partnered with the roundtrip car share companies, led by Zipcar, to launch the nation's largest on-street car-sharing program with the greatest take-up in The Bronx and in Queens – Jackson Heights, Jamaica, and Far Rockaway.<ref name="Martin-Stocker-Nichols-Shaheen 2021 Feb" /><ref name="DOT permanent-expansion 2021 Apr 22" /><ref name="DOT 2021 Apr 22" /><ref name="DOT 2021 Apr" /><ref name="Zipcar 2020" /> In 2020, during beginning throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, Enterprise CarShare suspended service in New York City. Among the traditional car rental locations in Queens, both international airports harbor larger fleets, conveniently close to Queens residents.

Micromobility

Citi Bike – a docked-bike and e-bike sharing company had, as of July 2019, 169,000 annual subscribers. In 2021, the Department of Transportation and Citi Bike announced that, as part of its Phase 3 expansion, it was doubling its service area to 70 square miles and tripling the number of bikes to 40,000. The expansion includes 52 new docking stations in Astoria, as well as new stations in Sunnyside and Woodside.<ref name="Astoria-Post 2021 Jan 15" />

Non-docked e-moped service was launched in the city by Revel in 2019. Companies such as Bird, Lime, and Veo introduced non-docked e-scooter-sharing in 2021.<ref name="NYSERDA 2021 Feb" />

Airports

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John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

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A multibillion-dollar reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport was announced in July 2015.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />

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	Domestic	International	Rank*	Total
Template:SpaceJFK	Template:Space28,233,791	Template:Space34,317,281	Template:Font color	Template:Space62,551,072
Template:SpaceLGA	28,875,041	2,209,853		31,084,894
Template:Hanging indent	57,108,832	36,527,134		93,635,966
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Template:SpaceJFK	Template:Space8,267,666	Template:Space8,362,976	Template:Font color	Template:Space16,630,642
Template:SpaceLGA	7,853,368	391,824		8,245,192
Template:Hanging indent	16,121,034	8,754,800		24,875,834
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Template:Refend Queens has crucial importance in international and interstate air traffic, with two of the New York metropolitan area's three major airports located there. John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, served 62.6 million passengers (enplanements + deplanements) – 34.3 million of which were international, ranking it the busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States imposed travel restrictions, first, in January 2020, on travelers from China and, in the following months, on travelers from other countries. 2020 annual passenger traffic at JFK dropped to 16.6 million (−73.4%) – 8.4 million (−73.4%) of which were international, still ranking it the busiest airport in the United States by international passenger traffic.<ref name="Port-Authority-JFK" /><ref name="US-Dept-Transportation-JFK" />

JFK is owned by the City of New York and managed, since 1947, by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The airport's runways and six terminals cover an area of Template:Convert on Jamaica Bay in southeastern Queens.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The airport's original official name was New York International Airport, although it was commonly known as Idlewild, with the name changed to Kennedy in December 1963 to honor the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963.<ref name="TheStreet.com 2013 Dec 20" />

LaGuardia Airport is located in East Elmhurst, in northern Queens, on Flushing Bay. Originally opened in 1939, the airport's two runways and four terminals cover Template:Convert, serving 28.4 million passengers in 2015.<ref name="Port-Authority-LGA 2016" /> In 2014, citing outdated conditions in the airport's terminals, Vice President Joe Biden compared LaGuardia Airport to a "third world country".<ref name="NYTs 2014 Feb 6" /> In 2015, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began a $4 billion project to renovate LaGuardia Airport's terminals and entryways. The project is expected to be complete by 2021.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />

Public transportation

Subways

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46th Street – Bliss Street subway station

Queens is served by the New York City Subway, with 81 stations located within the borough.<ref name="Subway-map" /> Two physical lines — the IRT Flushing Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line — serve as the primary east–west trunk lines in the borough, with all services on the two lines continuing across the East River into Manhattan. Two additional lines are wholly within Queens: the BMT Astoria Line, which serves the neighborhoods of Astoria and Ditmars–Steinway, and the IND Rockaway Line, which provides access to John F. Kennedy International Airport and the Rockaways. In addition, five other New York City Subway lines — the BMT Jamaica Line, BMT Myrtle Avenue Line, BMT/IND Archer Avenue Line, IND Crosstown Line, and IND Fulton Street Line — run between Brooklyn and Queens.

The A, G, J/Z, and M routes connect Queens to Brooklyn without going through Manhattan first. The F, N, and R trains connect Queens and Brooklyn via Manhattan, while the E, W, and 7/<7> trains connect Queens to Manhattan only. The L train briefly enters Queens at Halsey Street, connecting Queens to either Brooklyn or both Brooklyn and Manhattan, depending on the direction.<ref name="Subway-map" /> In addition, the Rockaway Park Shuttle operates strictly in the neighborhoods of Rockaway Park and Broad Channel.<ref name="Subway-map" />

Long Island Rail Road

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Flushing – Main Street LIRR station

The Long Island Rail Road, also part of the MTA, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays – carrying an average of 301,000 customers a day (80 million a year, adjusting downward for weekends) on about 735 scheduled trains.<ref name="MTA-LIRR-info" /> It is the busiest commuter rail hub in the United States. Most of its branches originate or terminate at Penn Station. All but one of its branches (the Port Washington Branch) pass through Jamaica. Within the City Terminal Zone, Queens has stations in Long Island City, Hunterspoint Avenue (in Long Island City), Bayside, Forest Hills, Flushing, Woodside, and Kew Gardens. There are also two stations where LIRR passengers can transfer to the subway.

Until 1998, the LIRR served 5 stations on the Lower Montauk branch between Jamaica and Hunterspoint Avenue. The LIRR used the track for non-stop service between Jamaica and Hunterspoint until 2012, when service was rerouted onto the main line and the line was leased to the New York and Atlantic Railway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Sunnyside Yard is used to store Amtrak intercity and NJ Transit commuter trains from Penn Station in Manhattan. The US$11.1 billion East Side Access project, which brought LIRR trains to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, opened in 2023; this project created a new train tunnel beneath the East River, connecting Long Island City in Queens with the East Side of Manhattan.<ref name="WNBC 2018 Apr 16" /><ref name="Newsday 2018 Apr 15" />

JFK AirTrain

The elevated AirTrain people mover system connects JFK International Airport to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road along the Van Wyck Expressway;<ref name="Port-Authority-JFK-AirTrain 2016" /> a separate AirTrain system is planned alongside the Grand Central Parkway to connect LaGuardia Airport to these transit systems.<ref name="NYDaily 2015 Jan 20" /><ref name="DNAinfo-NY 2015 Jan 20" /> Plans were announced in July 2015 to entirely rebuild LaGuardia Airport itself in a multibillion-dollar project to replace its aging facilities, and this project would accommodate the new AirTrain connection.<ref name="NYTs 2015 Jul 27" />

MTA buses

2019 bus ridership, citywide, on the MTA system, was 2.2 million per average weekday – about 678 million for the year. In Queens, the Q58 and Q44 Select Bus Service were the seventh and tenth, respectively, citywide, busiest local lines in 2019.<ref name="MTA-Bus-Facts 2020 Apr 14" /> In addition to regular bus lines serving LaGuardia Airport, the MTA offers two Select Bus Services, regular fare, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The M60 – terminals A, B, C, D – to and from Manhattan via Grand Central Parkway and the Triborough Bridge – in Harlem, along 125th Street (with a stop at the 125th Street Metro-North station), ending in Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side, a few blocks south of Columbia University. The Q70 – terminals B, C, D – through Queens, ending in Woodside at 61st Street and Roosevelt Avenue. Overall, about 100 local bus routes operate within Queens, and another 20 express routes shuttle commuters between Queens and Manhattan, under the MTA New York City Bus and MTA Bus brands.<ref name="Queens-Bus-Map" />

Proposed streetcar

A streetcar line connecting Queens with Brooklyn was proposed by the city in February 2016.<ref name="The-Independent 2016 Feb 4" /><ref name="NY-Observer 2016 Feb 4" /> The planned timeline originally called for service to begin around 2024.<ref name="NYTs 2016 Feb 3" /> In September 2020, Mayor de Blasio deferred decisions on the project to after the 2021 New York City mayoral election.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Water transit

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Newtown Creek with the Midtown Manhattan skyline in the background

New York Water Taxi operates service across the East River from Hunters Point in Long Island City to Manhattan at 34th Street and south to Pier 11 at Wall Street. In 2007, limited weekday service was begun between Breezy Point, the westernmost point in the Rockaways, to Pier 11 via the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Summertime weekend service provides service from Lower Manhattan and southwest Brooklyn to the peninsula's Gateway beaches.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012, ferry operator SeaStreak began running a city-subsidized ferry service between a makeshift ferry slip at Beach 108th Street and Beach Channel Drive in Rockaway Park and piers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.<ref name="SeaStreak-info" /> The service was extended multiple times.<ref name="DNAinfo-NY 2014 Jan 20" /> finally ending on October 31, 2014.<ref name="NY1 2014 Nov 1" />

In February 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city government would begin a citywide ferry service called NYC Ferry to extend ferry transportation to communities in the city that have been traditionally underserved by public transit.<ref name="NYTs 2016 Jun 15" /><ref name="WNBC 2016 Mar 16" /> The ferry opened in May 2017,<ref name="NYDaily 2017 May 1" /><ref name="NYTs 2017 May 1" /> with the Queens neighborhoods of Rockaway and Astoria served by their eponymous routes. A third route, the East River Ferry, serves Hunter's Point South.<ref name="NYC-Ferry 2021 Aug 23" />

Roads

Highways

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Air Train JFK path above the Van Wyck Expressway

Queens is traversed by three trunk east–west highways. The Long Island Expressway (Interstate 495) runs from the Queens Midtown Tunnel on the west through the borough to Nassau County on the east. The Grand Central Parkway, whose western terminus is the Triborough Bridge, extends east to the Queens/Nassau border, where the roadway continues as the Northern State Parkway. The Belt Parkway begins at the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn, and extends east into Queens, past Aqueduct Racetrack and JFK Airport. On its eastern end at the Queens/Nassau border, it splits into the Southern State Parkway which continues east, and the Cross Island Parkway which turns north.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

There are also several major north–south highways in Queens, including the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (Interstate 278), the Van Wyck Expressway (Interstate 678), the Clearview Expressway (Interstate 295), and the Cross Island Parkway.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

Queens has six state highways that run west–east largely on surface roads. From north to south, they are New York State Route 25A (Northern Boulevard), New York State Route 25B (Hillside Avenue), New York State Route 25 (Queens Boulevard, Hillside Avenue, and Braddock Avenue), New York State Route 24 (Hempstead Avenue), and New York State Route 27 (Conduit Avenue). The only state highway that primarily uses an expressway is New York State Route 878, which uses the Nassau Expressway in southern Queens.<ref name="Google-Maps-Queens" />

Streets

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Cross-street signs for a single-named boulevard and a co-named avenue in Queens

The streets of Queens are laid out in a semi-grid system, with a numerical system of street names (similar to Manhattan and the Bronx). Nearly all roadways oriented north–south are "Streets", while east–west roadways are "Avenues", beginning with the number 1 in the west for Streets and the north for Avenues. In some parts of the borough, several consecutive streets may share numbers (for instance, 72nd Street followed by 72nd Place and 72nd Lane, or 52nd Avenue followed by 52nd Road, 52nd Drive, and 52nd Court), often confusing non-residents.<ref name="NYTs 2000 Dec 15" /> Also, incongruous alignments of street grids, unusual street paths due to geography, or other circumstances often lead to the skipping of numbers (for instance, on Ditmars Boulevard, 70th Street is followed by Hazen Street which is followed by 49th Street). Numbered roads tend to be residential, although numbered commercial streets are not rare. A fair number of streets that were country roads in the 18th and 19th centuries (especially major thoroughfares such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, Hillside Avenue, and Jamaica Avenue) carry names rather than numbers, typically though not uniformly called "Boulevards" or "Parkways".

Queens house numbering was designed to provide convenience in locating the address itself; the first half of a number in a Queens address refers to the nearest cross street, the second half refers to the house or lot number from where the street begins from that cross street, followed by the name of the street itself. For example, to find an address in Queens, 14-01 120th Street, one could ascertain from the address structure itself that the listed address is at the intersection of 14th Avenue and 120th Street and that the address must be closest to 14th Avenue rather than 15th Avenue, as it is the first lot on the block. This pattern does not stop when a street is named, assuming that there is an existing numbered cross-street. For example, Queens College is situated at 65–30 Kissena Boulevard, and is so named because the cross-street closest to the entrance is 65th Avenue.<ref name="NYTs 2000 Dec 15" />

Many of the village street grids of Queens had only worded names, some were numbered according to local numbering schemes, and some had a mix of words and numbers. In the early 1920s, a "Philadelphia Plan" was instituted to overlay one numbered system upon the whole borough. The Topographical Bureau, Borough of Queens, worked out the details. Subway stations were only partly renamed, and some, including those along the IRT Flushing Line (Template:NYCS trains), now share dual names after the original street names.<ref name="Powell 1928 Feb" /> In 2012, some numbered streets in the Douglaston Hill Historic District were renamed to their original names, with 43rd Avenue becoming Pine Street.<ref name="NYTs 2012 Mar 26" />

The Rockaway Peninsula does not follow the same system as the rest of the borough and has its own numbering system. Streets are numbered in ascending order heading west from near the Nassau County border, and are prefixed with the word "Beach". Streets at the easternmost end, however, are nearly all named. Bayswater, which is on Jamaica Bay, has its numbered streets prefixed with the word "Bay" rather than "Beach". Another deviation from the norm is Broad Channel; it maintains the north–south numbering progression but uses only the suffix "Road", as well as the prefixes "West" and "East", depending on location relative to Cross Bay Boulevard, the neighborhood's major through street. Broad Channel's streets were a continuation of the mainland Queens grid in the 1950s; formerly the highest-numbered avenue in Queens was 208th Avenue rather than today's 165th Avenue in Howard Beach & Hamilton Beach. The other exception is the neighborhood of Ridgewood, which for the most part shares a grid and house numbering system with the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. The grid runs east–west from the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch right-of-way to Flushing Avenue; and north–south from Forest Avenue in Ridgewood to Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn before adjusting to meet up with the Bedford-Stuyvesant grid at Broadway. All streets on the grid have names.

Bridges and tunnels

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The Triborough Bridge connects Queens with Manhattan and The Bronx.

Queens is connected to the Bronx by the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge, the Triborough Bridge (also known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), and the Hell Gate Bridge. Queens is connected to Manhattan Island by the Triborough Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, and the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, as well as to Roosevelt Island by the Roosevelt Island Bridge.

While most of the Queens/Brooklyn border is on land, the Kosciuszko Bridge crosses the Newtown Creek connecting Maspeth to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The Pulaski Bridge connects McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint to 11th Street, Jackson Avenue, and Hunters Point Avenue in Long Island City. The J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge (a.k.a. Greenpoint Avenue Bridge) connects the sections of Greenpoint Avenue in Greenpoint and Long Island City. A lesser bridge connects Grand Avenue in Queens to Grand Street in Brooklyn.

The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge, built in 1939, traverses Jamaica Bay to connect the Rockaway Peninsula to Broad Channel and the rest of Queens.<ref name="MTA-Cross-Bay-Veterans-Memorial-Bridge-info" /> Constructed in 1937, the Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge links Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn's longest thoroughfare, with Jacob Riis Park and the western end of the Peninsula.<ref name="MTA-Gil-Hodges-Bridge-info" /> Both crossings were built and continue to be operated by what is now known as MTA Bridges and Tunnels. The IND Rockaway Line parallels the Cross Bay, has a mid-bay station at Broad Channel which is just a short walk from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, now part of Gateway National Recreation Area and a major stop on the Atlantic Flyway.

Notable people

Many public figures have grown up or lived in Queens.<ref name="NYTs 2001 Sep 8" /> Donald Trump, a businessman who became the 45th and later 47th and current President of the United States, was born in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and raised at 81-15 Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, later moving to Midland Parkway.<ref name="Newsday 2016 Jul 1" /><ref name="Queens-Chronicle 2016 Mar 3" /><ref name="CNN 2016 Apr 16" /> He was preceded in the White House by former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who lived in Flushing as a child.<ref name="Times-Ledger 2016 Mar 10" /> Harold R. Story, a US Army major general, commanded the 42nd Infantry Division in the 1970s.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President, lived at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay from the mid-1880s until he died;<ref name="National-Park-Service Sagamore-Hill-info" /> the area was considered part of Queens until the formation of neighboring Nassau County in 1899.

Musicians raised in the borough include

• Nas,
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• 50 Cent,
• the Ramones,
• Sylvain Sylvain, Johnny Thunders and Billy Murcia of the New York Dolls
• Nina Sky,
• A Tribe Called Quest,
• Mobb Deep,
• Onyx,
• Ja Rule,
• Lloyd Banks,
• Tony Yayo,
• Run–D.M.C.,
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• Lil Tecca,
• Rich The Kid,
• Action Bronson,
• Nadia Ali,<ref name="Nadia-Ali-bio" />
• and Tony Bennett.<ref name="Biography-Tony-Bennett 2014 Apr 2" />

Jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Norman Mapp both resided in Corona, as well as folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel<ref name="Humphries 1989" /> and guitarists Scott Ian and Johnny Ramone.<ref name="People-Silverman 2004 Sep 16" /> K-pop rapper Mark Lee from the boy group NCT grew up in Queens before moving to Canada. Madonna, from 1979 to 1980, lived in Corona as a member of the band Breakfast Club.<ref name="Ciccone-Leigh 2008" /> Actors and actresses such as Adrien Brody,<ref name="AP-Brody-Zarobinski 2003 Mar 25" /> Zoe Saldaña, Lucy Liu,<ref name="NYTs 2003 Oct 13" /> John Leguizamo, Susan Sarandon, and Idina Menzel<ref name="NYDaily 2005 Nov 15" /> were born or raised in Queens. Actress Mae West also lived in Queens.<ref name="Newsday 2005 Apr 15" /> Writers from Queens include John Guare (The House of Blue Leaves) and Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement). Mafia boss John Gotti lived in Queens for many years.<ref name="CNN 2002 Jun 11" /> Richard Feynman, a scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, was born in Queens and grew up in Far Rockaway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Lee "Q" O'Denat, founder of WorldStarHipHop was from Hollis.

Queens has also been home to athletes such as:

• Professional basketball players Rafer Alston,<ref name="NYTs 1998 Mar 25" /> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,Template:Efn<ref name="Biography-Kareem-Abdul-Jabbar 2014 Apr 2" /> Metta World Peace,Template:Efn<ref name="Indiana-Daily-Student 2005 Feb 10" /> Emily Engstler,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Olympic athletes Bob Beamon<ref name="NYTs 2000 Jan 1" /> and Dalilah Muhammad<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Tennis player John McEnroe<ref name="Biography-John-McEnroe 2014 Apr 2" /> was born in Douglaston. Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Whitey Ford grew up in Astoria.<ref name="NYTs 2000 Aug 17" />

Journalist Marie Colvin was a native of Queens.

In popular culture

Queens has also served as a setting for various fictional characters, including Peter Parker / Spider-Man from Marvel Comics. He grew up in Forest Hills with his Aunt May and Uncle Ben,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and Archie Bunker of All in the Family, who lived at the fictional 704 Hauser Street in Astoria.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The popular sitcom The King of Queens is set in the titular borough, with the main characters living in a house in Rego Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The movie Somewhere in Queens, starring Queens native Ray Romano, is also set in the title borough.

The Cemetery Belt

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Several large cemeteries in Queens – St. Michaels, Luthern, Calvary, Cypress Hill, Mt. Olivet and Mt. Zion – together with several in Brooklyn are collectively known as The Cemetery Belt. There are about five million burials in the borough and Calvary, with about 3 million burials,<ref>Williams, Keith. "Why the Brooklyn-Queens Border Is Full of Dead People", The New York Times, April 27, 2017. Accessed January 23, 2024. "There are more than a dozen cemeteries near the line separating the two boroughs, in an area sometimes called the Cemetery Belt. More than five million people are buried in Queens alone, outnumbering those living there by more than two to one.... Calvary Cemetery in Queens, where three million Catholics are buried, and Washington Cemetery, a Jewish graveyard in Brooklyn, are among sites that have been completely developed."</ref> has the largest number of interments of any cemetery in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Queens
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Queens County, New York
• Queens directories

References

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"When Queens County was created the courts were transferred from Hempstead to Jamaica Village and a County Court was erected. When the building became too small for its purposes and the stone meeting house had been erected, the courts were held for some years in that edifice. Later a new courthouse was erected and used until the seat of justice was removed to North Hempstead."

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"Moving the home of the US Open in 1978 across the borough of Queens, from the serene surroundings of Forest Hills to the 46.5 cement acres [188,000 m2; 2,030,000 sq ft; 18.8 ha] of Flushing Meadows, further expanded the US Open's ability to deliver world-class tennis and star-studded entertainment to the masses. Indeed, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (the world's largest public tennis facility when not hosting tournament tennis) and its centerpiece, Arthur Ashe Stadium (the world's largest tennis stadium), have enabled the US Open to become the world's best-attended annual sporting event, with nearly three-quarters of a million fans on-site each year."

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Template:Space"From the final withdrawal of the British in November 1783, until the 1830s, Queens continued as an essentially Long Island area of farms and villages. The location of the county government in Mineola (in present-day Nassau County) underscores the island orientation of that era. The population grew hardly at all, increasing only from 5,791 in 1800 to 7,806 in 1830, suggesting that many younger sons moved away, seeking fortunes where land was not yet so fully taken up for farming."

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"Johnny Ramone, 55, was born John Cummings and grew up in Forest Hills, N.Y., soaking up rock in the '60s but then moving to an edgier sound."

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"Previously known to outsiders as Brooklyn's more-diverse, less-hip neighbor, a vast landscape of ethnic eateries, Queens has emerged as the capitol of the nation's progressive movement."

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"Brody, who grew up in Woodhaven and Zarobinski [Thomas R. Zarobinski; born 1971], a native of Rego Park, attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts together, where Brody studied acting and Zarobinski studied drawing."

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"The three developers have stressed in public hearings that they are not outsiders to Flushing, which is 69% Asian. Template:'-They've been here, they live here, they work here, they've invested here,Template:-' said Ross Moskowitz, an attorney for the developers at a different public hearing in February Template:Nowrap Tangram Tower, a luxury mixed-use development built by F&T. Last year, prices for two-bedroom apartments started at $1.15m Template:Nowrap The influx of transnational capital and rise of luxury developments in Flushing has displaced longtime immigrant residents and small business owners, as well as disrupted its cultural and culinary landscape. These changes follow the familiar script of gentrification, but with a change of actors: it is Chinese American developers and wealthy Chinese immigrants who are gentrifying this working-class neighborhood, which is majority Chinese."

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"That was the year when the "Old Brig" courthouse was vacated after 90 years of housing lawbreakers. The county court moved from Mineola to Long Island City."

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Template:Space"The question of the Greater New-York, which is also to be submitted to the people at this coming election, involves the proposition to unite in one city the following cities, counties, and towns: New York City, Long Island City, in Queens County; the County of Kings, (Brooklyn;) the County of Richmond, (S.I.;) the towns of Flushing, Newtown, Jamaica, in Queens County; the town of Westchester, in Westchester County, and all that portion of the towns of East Chester and Pelham which lies south of a straight line drawn from a point where the northerly line of the City of New-York meets the centre line of the Bronx River, to the middle of the channel between Hunter's and Glen Islands, in Long Island Sound, and that part of the town of Hempstead, in Queens County, which is westerly of a straight line drawn from the south-easterly point of the town of Flushing in a straight line to the Atlantic Ocean."

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"Neither the outpouring of affection from an adoring public nor the love he finally found after four failed marriages could make up for the neglect and physical abuse he suffered as a child growing up in South Jamaica, Queens."

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"Many of them live in Richmond Hill. Just as Chinese-Americans energized downtown Flushing, the Guyanese have revived a once-moribund shopping strip on Liberty Avenue between the Van Wyck Expressway and Lefferts Boulevard, now known as Little Guyana."

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"Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, Ms. Liu, the daughter of working-class Chinese immigrants, recalled many an afternoon spent parked in front of a television set."

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"How, they wondered, could Queens have grown by only one-tenth of 1 percent since 2000? How, even with a surge in foreclosures, could the number of vacant apartments have soared by nearly 60 percent in Queens and by 66 percent in Brooklyn? Template:Nowrap Often, though, owners of illegally divided houses are reluctant to disclose the number of tenants, who tend to include people who are in the country illegally and are leery of providing any information to the government."

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"Mr. Biden said that if he blindfolded someone and took him to La Guardia, the person would think he was in 'some third world country.Template:'-"

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"Zausner said the stadium, the largest in tennis, will maintain its seating capacity of 23,771, though some seats in the highest rows were removed to accommodate two video boards. Seats were added in lower levels to replace those lost, he said."

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"The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport in northern Queens, estimates the overhaul will cost about $4 billion, most of which will go toward tearing down the Central Terminal Building, rebuilding it in place and augmenting it with a grand entry way."

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"1874 – Queens County Courthouse and seat of county government moved from Mineola (in present-day Nassau County) to Long Island City."

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"The Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge was opened by the Marine Parkway Authority in 1937 to provide access to the Rockaway Peninsula, which previously could be reached only by ferry or by a circuitous route around the eastern end of Jamaica Bay."

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"In 1939 the New York City Parkway Authority built the Cross Bay Bridge and Parkway, along with beach improvements in the Rockaways."

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Items extracted from newspapers and other sources, arranged chronologically, 1639–1832.

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External links

• Official History Page of the Queens Borough President's Office
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