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10 hours ago · 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. The eastern 280 square miles (730 km 2) of Queens that became Nassau County was partitioned on January 1, 1899. Queens Borough was established on January 1, 1898.
- Jamaica
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of...
- List of Queens Neighborhoods
For example, whereas the town, state construction for all...
- Astoria
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New...
- Flushing
Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of...
- Borough
Terminology. The term borough was adopted in 1898 to...
- Forest Hills Gardens
Forest Hills is a mostly residential neighborhood in the...
- Donovan Richards
Donovan Richards Jr. (born April 9, 1983) is an American...
- Sports
Boxing was again being banned in America in the early 1900s,...
- Queensboro Bridge
The Queensboro Bridge, officially named the Ed Koch...
- Jamaica
10 hours ago · The borough is separated from the adjacent state of New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With a population of 495,747 in the 2020 Census , [6] Staten Island is the least populated New York City borough but the third largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi (152 km 2 ); it is also the least ...
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- New York
- Richmond (coterminous)
10 hours ago · The Bronx is the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island. The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km 2) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. [1] If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the ninth-most-populous in the U.S.
- Bronx (coterminous)
- Jonas Bronck
10 hours ago · Binghamton ( / ˈbɪŋəmtən / BING-əm-tən) is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. [4] Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. [5]
10 hours ago · The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. It has since become a mixture of lower ...
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- Corruption of original Lenape language name
10 hours ago · Connecticut ( / kəˈnɛtɪkət / ⓘ kə-NET-ik-ət) [10] is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to its east, Massachusetts to its north, New York to its west, and Long Island Sound to its south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport.
10 hours ago · The Garden State Parkway ( GSP) is a controlled-access toll road that stretches the north–south length of eastern New Jersey from the state's southernmost tip near Cape May north to the New York state line at Montvale. Its name refers to New Jersey's nickname, the "Garden State". The parkway has an unsigned reference number of Route 444 by ...
