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A little way to the right, as seen from McGown's Pass to the south, is ... a lesser height or ridge, and which to the inhabitants came to be known as the Little Hill. [ 9 ] Little Hill was leveled when the right-of-way of the Park Avenue main line was graded for the New York and Harlem Railroad , following the present route of Park Avenue .
The borough of Queens consists of what formerly was only the western part of a then-larger Queens County. In 1899, the three eastern towns of Queens County that had not joined the city the year before—the towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead, and Oyster Bay—formally seceded from Queens County to form the new Nassau County. [9]
Map of community districts in the City of New York. Community boards of the Bronx [1] are the 12 New York City community boards in the borough of the Bronx, which are the appointed advisory groups of the community districts that advise on land use and zoning, participate in the city budget process, and address service delivery in their district.
View of a night-time baseball game at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. This is a list of professional and semi-professional sports teams based in the New York metropolitan area, including from New York City, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley, Northern and Central New Jersey, and parts of Western Connecticut.
The Queens Borough Board is composed of the borough president, New York City Council members whose districts are part of the borough, and the chairperson of each community board in Queens. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The current borough board is composed of the 30 members listed in the table below:
PAL provides organized co-ed sports leagues for 14,000 New York City children, who are involved in sports such as basketball, flag football, baseball, volleyball and softball. Furthermore, over 825 NYPD officers and 2,500 PAL kids play on Cops & Kids sports teams, which are intended to create mutual respect between cops and kids.
East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park, New Lots, City Line, and Starrett City; Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill; Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace; Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville; Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Wingate; Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Fort Hamilton
The district overlaps with Queens Community Board 5 and Brooklyn Community Boards 1 and 4, and with New York's 7th, 8th, and 12th congressional districts. It also overlaps with the 12th , 15th , 18th , and 26th districts of the New York State Senate , and with the 37th, 38th, 50th, 53rd, and 54th districts of the New York State Assembly .