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  2. Queens Community Board 12 - Wikipedia

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    The Queens Community Board 12 is a local government in the New York City borough of Queens, encompassing the neighborhoods of Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Baisley Park, Rochdale Village, South Jamaica. [3] Queens Community Board 12 is the second largest Community Board in Queens, covering the largest area of the borough.

  3. Jamaica, Queens - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.It has a popular large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis, St Albans, and Cambria Heights to the east; South Jamaica, Rochdale Village, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Springfield Gardens to the south; Laurelton and Rosedale to the southeast ...

  4. List of American military installations - Wikipedia

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    The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.

  5. United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens) - Wikipedia

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    The building is a two-story brick building on a light gray granite base with marble trim in the Colonial Revival style. It features a handsome marble portico supported by four Ionic order columns. [3] Jamaica NY 11432. The building in 2007 was renamed in honor of Clarence L. Irving. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...

  6. Springfield Gardens, Queens - Wikipedia

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    The Q85 bus travels along South Conduit Avenue towards Rosedale or Green Acres Mall, and North Conduit Avenue. towards the Jamaica Center – Parsons/Archer subway station (E , J, and Z trains). The Q111 travels to Rosedale and Jamaica via 147th Avenue along with the Q113 and Q114 via 147th Avenue to Jamaica and Far Rockaway .

  7. Category:Government buildings in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Government buildings in Queens, New York (1 C, 15 P) Government buildings in Staten Island (2 C, 8 P) C. Courthouses in New York City (1 C, 9 P) F.

  8. New York state public-benefit corporations - Wikipedia

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    The New York State Constitution, Art.X, sec. 5, provides that public benefit corporations may only be created by special act of the legislature. In City of Rye v. MTA, 24 N.Y.2d 627 (1969), the court of appeals explained that "The debates of the 1938 Convention indicate that the proliferation of public authorities after 1927 was the reason for the enactment of section 5 of article X....

  9. Jamaica Estates, Queens - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica Estates is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Jamaica Estates is part of Queens Community District 8 [ 1 ] and located in the northern portion of Jamaica . It is bounded by Union Turnpike to the north, Hillside Avenue to the south, Utopia Parkway and Homelawn Street to the west, and 188th Street to the east.