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The village of Ellenville is about 90 miles northwest of New York City and 90 miles southwest of Albany.The village is located at the junction of routes NY 52 and U.S. Route 209, and is bisected by the recently designated Shawangunk Scenic Byway.
Other notable contributing resources include the Ellenville United Methodist Church (1858), First National Bank Building (1868), Wawarsing Town Hall (1895), Norbury Hall, Scoresby Hook and Ladder, Cohen's Bakery, Ellenville Electric Co. Building (1914), Home National Bank (1928), H. Rosenstock and Sons clothing factory (c. 1920), the Miller ...
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 ...
Maps from 1873 show portions of Queens Village (then called Inglewood and Queens) in the town of Hempstead, [10] but 1891 maps show it entirely in the town of Jamaica. [ 13 ] After the Borough of Queens became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York in 1898, and the new county of Nassau was created in 1899, the border between the ...
Rockaway Beach in the 1880s, with new railroad and resort hotel. What is now Rockaway Beach was formerly two different hamlets, Holland and Hammels. In 1857, Michael P. Holland had purchased land and named the area after himself. Soon afterward, Louis Hammel, an immigrant from Germany, bought a tract of land just east of Holland.
The boardwalk is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) long [3] while the beaches cover an area of 170 acres (69 ha) over 7 miles (11 km). [ 4 ] The beach and boardwalk run adjacent to a variety of neighborhoods, including public housing on the Beach 50- and 60-numbered streets in Edgemere and Arverne , and high-rise developments on the Beach 100-numbered streets ...
Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic District is a historic area in Far Rockaway, Queens County, New York. It includes summer beach bungalows near the oceanfront of Far Rockaway, first brought to the area by developer John J. Eagan. They are smaller than the usual domestic bungalows of the 1920s.
Bellerose is an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood on the eastern edge of the New York City borough of Queens, along the border of Queens and Nassau County, Long Island. It is adjacent to Bellerose Village and Bellerose Terrace in Nassau County, from which it is separated by Jericho Turnpike .