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Queens is the largest in area and the second most populous of the five boroughs
of New York City. The borough of Queens is coterminous with Queens County in New
York State, USA. It is home to New York City's two major airports (John F.
Kennedy and LaGuardia), the New York Mets baseball team, the USTA Billie Jean
King National Tennis Center (home of the annual U.S. Open), Silvercup Studios,
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and Queens Center (the most profitable
per-square-foot mall in America).
The borough of Queens is furthermore the second most ethnically diverse county
in the United States behind Miami-Dade County, Florida. As of the 2005 American
Community Survey, immigrants comprise 47.6% of its residents. With a population
of 2.2 million it is the second most populous borough in New York City (behind
Brooklyn) and the tenth most populous county in the United States. The 2.2
million figure is the highest historical population for the borough.
Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of New York
and was named for the then-queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles
II. The borough is often considered one of the more suburban boroughs of New
York City. Neighborhoods in central (except those situated along Queens
Boulevard), southern, and eastern Queens have a look and feel similar to the
bordering suburbs of western Nassau County (in fact many people outside of New
York tend to refer to Queens neighborhoods as part of Long Island rather than
part of the city of New York). In its northwestern section, however, Queens is
home to many urban neighborhoods and several central business districts. Long
Island City, on the Queens' waterfront across from Manhattan, is the site of the
Citicorp Building, the tallest skyscraper in New York City outside of Manhattan.
History
European colonization brought both Dutch and English settlers, as a part of the
New Netherlands colony. First settlements occurred in 1635, with colonization at
Maspeth in 1642, and Vlissingen (now Flushing) in 1643. Other early settlements
included Newtown (now Elmhurst) and Jamaica. However, these towns were mostly
inhabited by English settlers from New England via eastern Long Island (Suffolk
County) subject to Dutch law. After the capture of the colony by the English and
its renaming as New York in 1664, the area (and all of Long Island) became known
as Yorkshire.
The borough of Queens was originally named after Catherine of Braganza, the
Portuguese-born wife of King Charles II of England. Originally, Queens County
included the adjacent area now comprising Nassau County. It was an original
county of New York State, one of twelve created in 1683.
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
Long Island, fell under British occupation after the Battle of Long Island in
August 1776 and remained occupied throughout most of the rest of the war. Under
the Quartering Act, British soldiers used the private homes of Queens residents
as refuge during the war, against the will of many of the local people. The
quartering of soldiers in private homes was banned by the Third Amendment to the
United States Constitution largely because of this. Nathan Hale was captured by
the British on the shore of Flushing Bay in Queens before being executed in
Manhattan.
By 1870, Queens County consisted of six towns: Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica,
Newtown, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay. The central community in each had been
incorporated as a village of the same name, and other villages had also been
incorporated. Also in 1870, the city of Long Island City was incorporated,
consisting of what had been the Village of Astoria and some unincorporated areas
in the Town of Newtown. The seat of the county government was located first in
Jamaica, but was moved in 1788 to Mineola, then a hamlet within the Town of
Hempstead.
As a result of a referendum, Long Island City, the towns of Newtown, Flushing,
and Jamaica, and the Rockaway Peninsula of the Town of Hempstead became the
Borough of Queens in New York City on January 1, 1898. The part of Queens County
that was not consolidated into New York City, consisting of the towns of North
Hempstead, Oyster Bay, and the remaining portions of Town of Hempstead, was
constituted as the new Nassau County in 1899.
The borough experienced a great leap in growth in the 1920s, from 469,042 in
1920 to 1,079,129 in 1930 ( ), coincidental with the expansion of the use of the
automobile and the construction of the elevated IRT subway lines to Astoria and
Flushing.
See also: History of New York City
See also: List of streetcar lines in Queens
Geography
Queens County is in the western part of Long Island and includes a few smaller
islands, most of which are in Jamaica Bay and form part of Gateway National
Recreation Area. The Rockaway Peninsula sits between Jamaica Bay and the
Atlantic Ocean.
The tallest tree in the New York metropolitan area, called the Queens Giant, is
also the oldest living thing in the New York metro area. It is located in
northeastern Queens, and is 450 years old and 132 feet (40 m) tall as of 2005.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of
178.3 mi2); 109.2 mi2 of it is land and 38.73% of it is water.
Neighborhoods
A typical residential street in Jackson Heights.
Bayside
Station Square in Forest Hills
Industrial buildings in Long Island City with the Manhattan Skyline in
background.M Neighborhoods of New York City
The United States Postal Service divides the borough into five "towns" based
roughly on those in existence at the time of the consolidation of the five
boroughs into New York City: Long Island City, Jamaica, Flushing, Far Rockaway,
and Floral Park. These ZIP codes do not necessarily reflect actual neighborhood
names and boundaries; "East Elmhurst," for example, was largely coined by the
United States Postal Service and is not an official community. 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 as a whole. Postal addresses are written with the
neighborhood, state, and then zip code rather than the borough or city. The
borough is a patchwork of dozens of unique neighborhoods, each with its own
distinct identity:
Howard Beach, Middle Village, and Whitestone, are home to large Italian American
populations.
Rockaway Beach has a large Irish American population.
Astoria, in the northwest, is traditionally home to one of the largest Greek
populations outside of Greece, and is home to a growing population of young
professionals from Manhattan.
Maspeth and Ridgewood are home to many European immigrants, including a large
Polish population, as well as a large Hispanic population.
Long Island City is a major commercial center and the home of the Queensbridge
housing project.
Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona make up an enormous conglomeration of
Hispanic and Asian American communities.
Flushing is home to a large Korean and Chinese population.
Richmond Hill, in the south, has the largest population of Sikhs outside of
India, while neighborhoods such as Hollis, Jackson Heights, and Astoria have a
large Muslim community from various ethnicities outside Pakistan, Egypt, etc.
Rego Park, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens have traditionally large Jewish
populations (many of these communities are Jewish immigrants from Israel, Iran
and the former Soviet Union).
Jamaica is home to large African American and Caribbean populations. There are
also middle-class African American and Caribbean neighborhoods such as Hollis,
Saint Albans, Cambria Heights, Queens Village, Springfield Gardens, Rosedale,
and Laurelton along east and southeast Queens.
Bellerose and Floral Park are home to a large South-Asian population,
predominantly Indian-Americans from the north-Indian state of Punjab and the
south-Indian state of Kerala. There are some less diverse, but still prosperous
part of Queens, such as South Jamaica.
Together, these neighborhoods comprise the most diverse county in the United
States. Some Queens neighborhoods, such as Ozone Park, Bayside, Maspeth, Kew
Gardens, Flushing and Woodside are home to a diverse mix of many different
ethnicities.
See also: List of Queens neighborhoods
Many neighborhoods such as Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, and Jackson
Heights are home to large numbers of immigrants from all over the globe.
Top 10 Wealthy Neighborhoods in Queens (in Highest to Lowest Property Value as
of 2007):
1) Forest Hills/Kew Gardens
2) Jamaica Estates
3) Douglaston Manor
4) Neponsit
5) Murray Hill
6) Belle Harbor
7) Howard Beach
8) Woodhaven
9) [Historic] Richmond Hill
10) Jackson Heights
Source: NYC Department of City Planning
These areas have many of the most expensive houses in New York. Bayside,
Douglaston, and Little Neck are very close to Great Neck and Manhasset.
Adjacent Counties
Bronx County, New York - north
Monmouth County, New Jersey - southwest
Nassau County, New York - east
New York County, New York - west
Kings County, New York - west and south
Richmond County, New York- southwest
Government
M Government of New York City
Queens County CourthouseParty affiliation of Queens registered voters Party 2005
2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
Democratic 62.94 62.52 62.85 62.79 62.99 62.52 62.30 62.27 62.28 62.33
Republican 14.60 14.66 14.97 15.04 15.28 15.69 16.47 16.74 16.93 17.20
No affiliation 18.58 18.89 18.24 18.31 18.36 18.49 18.13 17.79 17.77 17.69
Other 3.88 3.93 3.94 3.86 3.37 3.30 3.10 3.20 3.02 2.78
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, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities,
sanitation, water supply, and welfare services in Queens.
The office of Borough President was created in the consolidation of 1898 to
balance centralization with local authority. Each borough president had a
powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City
Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's
budget and proposals for land use. In 1989 the Supreme Court of the United
States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that
Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on
the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964
"one man, one vote" decision.
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 Helen Marshall, elected as a Democrat
in 2001 and re-elected in 2005.
Presidential election results Year Republican Democratic
2004 27.4% 165,954 71.7% 433,835
2000 22.0% 122,052 75.0% 416,967
1996 21.1% 107,650 72.9% 372,925
1992 28.3% 157,561 62.9% 349,520
1988 39.7% 217,049 59.5% 325,147
1984 46.4% 285,477 53.3% 328,379
1980 44.8% 251,333 48.0% 269,147
1976 38.9% 244,396 60.5% 379,907
1972 56.3% 426,015 43.4% 328,316
1968 40.0% 306,620 53.6% 410,546
1964 33.6% 274,351 66.3% 541,418
1960 45.1% 367,688 54.7% 446,348
1956 59.9% 471,223 40.1% 315,898
The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. 63% 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. Four Democratic US
Congressmen are from Queens. Gary Ackerman represents 5th district which spans
northeast Queens and Nassau Counties Gold Coast, and includes Corona, Flushing,
Jamaica Estates, Bayside, and Douglaston, while Gregory Meeks represents several
middle class and working class black areas in the 6th including Jamaica, Hollis,
St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, Queens Village and Far Rockaway.
Joseph Crowley represents Woodside, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and College
Point in the 7th that spans the east Bronx and Northwest Queens, while in the
9th Anthony Weiner represents parts of central Queens including Forest Hills,
Rego Park, Middle Village, Fresh Meadows, Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Howard Beach
and Rockaway Beach. In addition, portions of Woodside, Maspeth, and Ridgewoood
are represented by Brooklyn's Nydia Velazquez, and Astoria and Long Island City
are in the Manhattan based 14th district of Carolyn Maloney.
Each of the city's five counties (coterminous with each borough) has its own
criminal court system and District Attorney, the chief public prosecutor who is
directly elected by popular vote. Richard A. Brown, a Democrat, has been the
District Attorney of Queens County since 1991. Queens has 12 City Council
members, the second largest number among the five boroughs. It also has 14
administrative districts, each served by a local Community Board. Community
Boards are representative bodies that field complaints and serve as advocates
for local residents. The Queens county seat is the district of Jamaica.
Although it is heavily Democratic, Queens 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 Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg won majorities in Queens.
Republican State Senator Serphin Maltese represents a district in central and
southern Queens. 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.
Queens has not voted for a Republican candidate in a presidential election since
1972, when Queens voters chose Richard Nixon over George McGovern. In the 2004
presidential election Democrat John Kerry received 71.7% of the vote in Queens
and Republican George W. Bush received 21.4%.
Economy
An aerial view of LaGuardia AirportThe economy of Queens is based on tourism,
industry, and trade. Queens has two of the busiest airports in the world, John
F. Kennedy International Airport, located in southern Queens next to the South
Ozone Park and Rosedale neighborhoods and along Jamaica Bay, and La Guardia
Airport, in Flushing. Queens is increasingly attracting film studios — a return
of an industry that had departed decades earlier — notably the Kaufman Studios
in Astoria and the Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, where a number of
notable television shows are made, including Sesame Street.
The Queens Museum of Art and the New York Hall of Science are further east, in
Flushing Meadows Park — site of both the 1939 New York World's Fair, the 1964
New York World's Fair and the annual US Open tennis tournament. Shea Stadium,
home of the New York Mets baseball team, is just north of the park. The park is
also the third largest park in New York City at 1,255 acres (5 km2), making it
412 acres (1.7 km2) larger than Central Park in Manhattan.
Several large companies have their headquarters in Queens, including Bulova,
Glacéau and JetBlue.
Long Island City is a major manufacturing and commercial center. Flushing, in
the north-central part of the borough, is a major commercial hub for Chinese
American and Korean American businesses, while Jamaica is a major business and
transportation hub for the borough.
See also: Economy of New York City
Demographics
M Demographics of Queens
Queens Compared
2000 Census Queens NY City NY State
Total population 2,229,379 8,008,278 18,976,457
Population density 20,409.0/mi2 26,403/mi2 402/mi2
Median household income (1999) $37,439 $38,293 $43,393
Per capita income $19,222 $22,402 $23,389
Bachelor's degree or higher 23% 27% 24%
Foreign born 44% 36% 20%
White 44% 45% 62%
Black 20% 27% 16%
Hispanic (any race) 25% 27% 14%
Asian 18% 10% 6%
As of the census2(gr) Geographic references. of 2000, there were 2,229,379
people, 782,664 households, and 537,690 families residing in the county. The
population density was 7,879.6/km2 (20,409.0/mi2). There were 817,250 housing
units at an average density of 2,888.5/km2 (7,481.6/mi2). The racial makeup of
the county was 44.08% White, 20.01% Black or African American, 0.50% Native
American, 17.56% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 11.68% from other races, and
6.11% from two or more races. 24.97% of the population were Hispanic or Latino
of any race.
Some main European ancestry in Queens, 2000:
Italian: 8.99%
Irish: 7.05%
German: 4.74%
English: 1.32%
The 2000 census show also that the borough is home to one of the largest
concentrations of Indian-Americans in the nation, with a total population of
129,715 (5.79% of the borough population) ( , as well as Pakistani-Americans who
number 15,604 . Queens has the second largest Sikh population in the nation
after California. According to a 2002 UJA-Federation of New York study, Queens
is home to 186,000 Jewish Americans.
According to a Census Bureau estimate, the population increased to 2,241,600 in
2005.
There were 782,664 households out of which 31.5% had children under the age of
18 living with them, 46.9% were married couples living together, 16.0% had a
female householder with no husband present, and 31.3% were non-families. 25.6%
of all households were made up of individuals and 9.7% had someone living alone
who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the
average family size was 3.39.
In the county the population was spread out with 22.8% under the age of 18, 9.6%
from 18 to 24, 33.1% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65
years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there
were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $37,439, and the median
income for a family was $42,608. Males had a median income of $30,576 versus
$26,628 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,222. About
16.9% of families and 21.6% of the population were below the poverty line,
including 18.8% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over. In
2005, the median income among black households in Queens was close to $52,000 a
year, surpassing that of whites. No other county in the country with a
population over 65,000 can make that claim. Many of these African-Americans live
in middle class suburban neighborhoods near the Nassau County border, such as
Laurelton and Cambria Heights which have large black populations. However,
whites in the suburbs around Queens and in areas such as Manhattan and Brooklyn
have far greater income that blacks. The migration of whites from Queens has
been long ongoing with departures from Bellerose, Floral Park, Flushing and
Bayside to an extent, etc (some of the outgoing population has been replaced
with Asian Americans). link Demographics in Queens
The Top Ten Languages Spoken in Queens according to the NY State Comptroller:
English
Spanish
Chinese
Korean
Italian
Greek
Russian
Tagalog (Filipino)
French
French Creole
Culture
The Unisphere, unofficial symbol of Queens.Queens was an epicenter of jazz in
the 1940s. Jazz greats likes Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald
found refuge from segregation in the mixed communities of the borough, while a
younger generation — Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy
Gillespie, and others — were developing bebop in the clubs of Harlem.
Western Queens is becoming an artistic hub, including SculptureCenter, the
Noguchi Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Museum for African Art, and the
American Museum of the Moving Image. The P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in the
neighborhood of Long Island City is one of the largest and oldest institutions
in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. In addition to its
renowned exhibitions, the institution also organizes the prestigious
International and National Projects series, the Warm Up summer music series, and
the Young Architects Program with The Museum of Modern Art. The current poet
laureate of Queens is Ishle Yi Park.
Queens is home to many cultural institutions, including among others:
SculptureCenter
American Museum of the Moving Image
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
New York Hall of Science
Noguchi Museum
Queens Botanical Garden
Queens Theatre in the Park
See also: Culture of New York City, Music of New York City, and List of people
from Queens
Sports
Bronze Statue at the USTA National Tennis Center.Queens is the home of the New
York Mets baseball team, the U.S. Open tennis tournament, and Aqueduct
Racetrack. Just over the Queens line (in Nassau County) is Belmont Park Race
Track, the home of the Belmont Stakes. In the past, Extreme Championship
Wrestling has been held at an Elks lodge in Elmhurst.
See also: Sports in New York City
Food
Being the most diverse county in the nation Queens is home to restaurants from
all cultures. A wide variety of Mexican foods along Roosevelt Avenue, African
American food in Jamaica, Queens, and many Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cuisine
hotpot, bubble tea, Mongolian meats, noodles, bakeries in Flushing. Other
cultures, such as Greek, Latin American, and Southeast Asian, have very
prominent standings in Astoria, Queens. The presence of a sizable
Torah-observant Jewish community has added many kosher eating establishments,
often scattered throughout the borough. Large Italian communities in Southern
Queens (Howard Beach, Ozone Park) provide for a good mix of Italian restaurants,
while the increasing Latino neighborhood of Sunnyside provides for good Latin
American cuisine.
This short section requires expansion.
Transportation
Queensboro Bridge facing the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City.
An entrance to the elevated IRT Flushing Line in Jackson Heights.
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the borough.Twelve New York City
subway routes traverse Queens, serving 81 stations on seven main lines. About
100 local bus routes move people around within Queens, and another 15 express
routes shuttle commuters between Queens and Manhattan. A commuter train system,
the Long Island Rail Road, operates 20 stations in Queens with service to
Manhattan and Long Island. Jamaica Station is a hub station where all the lines
in the system but one converge. It is the busiest commuter rail hub in the
United States. Sunnyside Yard is used as a staging area by Amtrak and New Jersey
Transit for intercity and commuter trains from Penn Station in Manhattan.
Queens has crucial importance in international and interstate air traffic. Two
of New York City's three major airports are located there; LaGuardia Airport is
in northern Queens, while John F. Kennedy International Airport is to the south
on the shores of Jamaica Bay. AirTrain JFK provides a rail link between JFK and
local rail lines.
Queens is traversed by three trunk east-west highways. The Long Island
Expressway, also known as 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 its name changes to 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.
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.
Streets
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 in the north for
Avenues. In some parts of the borough, several consecutive streets may share
numbers (for instance, 72nd Street followed by 72nd Place, or 52nd Avenue
followed by 52nd Road, 52nd Drive, and 52nd Court), often causing confusion for
non-residents. In addition, 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 Blvd. 70th Street is followed by Hazen
Street which is followed by 49th Street).
This confusion stems from the fact that 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. Train stations were only partly renamed, thus now share dual names
after the original street names. There are 40th-Lowery, 46th-Bliss, 52nd-Lincoln
Ave and so forth. 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,
and Jamaica Avenue) carry names rather than numbers, typically though not
uniformly called "Boulevards" or "Parkways".
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.
Another deviance 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.
Waterways
Queens is connected to the Bronx by four bridges: the Bronx Whitestone Bridge,
the Throgs Neck Bridge, the Triborough Bridge and the Hell Gate Bridge.
Queens is connected to Manhattan by two bridges and one tunnel: the Triborough
Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, and the Queens Midtown Tunnel.
While most of the Queens/Brooklyn border is on land, the Kosciuszko Bridge
(I-278) crosses the Newtown Creek connecting Maspeth, Queens to Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. The Pulaski Bridge connects McGuinness Boulevard of Greenpoint to 11th
Street, Jackson Avenue, and Hunters Point Avenue of Long Island City. The
Greenpoint Avenue Bridge connects Greenpoint and Long Island City Avenues of the
same name. East of Queens Boulevard (NY-25), Greenpont Avenue becomes Roosevelt
Avenue. The G train is the only train to connect Brooklyn and Queens without
going through Manhattan. There are also numerous trains which connect the two
boroughs and go through Manhattan.
The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge connects the Rockaway Peninsula to the
rest of Queens.
There is currently only one year-round scheduled ferry service connecting Queens
and Manhattan. 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. During baseball season, NY Waterway ferries operate to Shea
Stadium for New York Mets weekend home games.
See also: Transportation in New York City
Education
Powdermaker Hall at Queens College.Education in Queens is provided by a vast
number of public and private institutions. Public schools in the borough are
managed by the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school
system in the United States.
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 and one of the top three large community colleges
in the United States.
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.
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 different
countries speaking 66 different languages are enrolled at the school, which is
located in Flushing. Ranked eighth in the United States by The Princeton Review
in its 2006 edition of "America's Best Value Colleges," Queens College is also
the host of CUNY's law school.
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.
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 medical, pharmacy, business and law programs as well as its
men's basketball and soccer teams.
The Queens Borough 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 Borough
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 fiscal year 2001, the Library achieved a circulation
of 16.8 million. First in circulation in New York State since 1985, 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.
Bramson ORT College is an undergraduate college in New York City operated by the
American branch of the Jewish charity World ORT. Its main campus is in Forest
Hills, Queens, with a satellite campus in Brooklyn.
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fantasy world, similar to "Guild Wars" or "EverQuest", where players control
character representations of themselves. As with most massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG), there is no overall objective or end to the game.
Players explore, form alliances, perform optional tasks, and complete quests for
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RuneScape takes place in the fantasy-themed realm of Gielinor, which is divided
into several different kingdoms, regions, and areas. Players can travel
throughout the gaming world on foot, by using magical teleportation spells or
devices, or mechanical means of transportation. Each region offers different
types of monsters, materials, and quests to challenge players. Players are shown
on the screen as customisable avatars. They set their own goals and objectives,
deciding which of the available activities to pursue. There is no linear path
that must be followed. Players can engage in combat with other players or with
monsters, complete quests, or increase their experience in any of the available
skills. Players interact with each other through trading, chatting, or playing
combative or cooperative mini-games.
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