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3 rail tracks (2 of Northeast Corridor, 1 of New York Connecting Railroad) Rikers Island Bridge: 1966: 4,200.0 1,280.16: 2 lanes of roadway: Only connects Rikers Island to Queens Bronx–Whitestone Bridge: 1939: 3,770.0 1,149.10: 6 lanes of I-678 (Whitestone Expressway) Throgs Neck Bridge: 1961: 2,910.0 886.97: 6 lanes of I-295 (Throgs Neck ...
Queens Directories – of New York City – were, before 1898, an assortment of village directories, Queens County directories, Long Island Directories, and add-ins or partial inclusions to New York City directories. In 1898, 30% of the western part of the old Queens County was absorbed into New York City.
Unlike neighborhoods in the other four boroughs, some Queens neighborhood names are used as the town name in postal addresses. For example, whereas the town, state construction for all addresses in Manhattan is New York, New York (except in Marble Hill, where Bronx, New York is used), and all neighborhoods in Brooklyn use Brooklyn, New York, residents of College Point would use the ...
The theatre suffered financial setbacks in 1974, Kutrzeba blaming a lack of support by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Queens Cultural Association. [11] In November 1974, Kutrzeba left Queens Theatre to pursue a career as a Broadway producer with The Lieutenant, a musical based on the trials resulting from the Mỹ Lai Massacre. [12]
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Operated by the New York City Transit Authority under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit ...
East River Queens West waterfront in 2006. Queens West is a district and redevelopment project along the East River in Long Island City, Queens, New York City.The project, located on Hunter's Point south of the Anable Basin, is a joint project sponsored by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) [1] and the Empire State Development Corporation (ESD).
The women's rescue home was moved to a wing in the new hospital, called the Perkins Pavilion. [10] Booth Memorial became affiliated with the New York University School of Medicine. [2] In 1992, the hospital was purchased from the Salvation Army by New York Hospital in Manhattan, [20] becoming New York Hospital Queens in May 1993.
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 [5] 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. [6]