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In Queens Village, there were 111 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 8.8 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). [25]: 11 Queens Village has an about-average population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was ...
The Queens County Farm Museum, also known as Queens Farm, is a 47-acre (190,000 m 2) farm in the Floral Park and Glen Oaks neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. The farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland (in operation since 1697), and is still a working farm today. Queens Farm practices sustainable ...
The farm is located on three rooftops in Brooklyn and Queens. The first rooftop farm was established in 2010 on a 43,000 square feet building straddling Astoria and Long Island City areas. The second location was built in 2012 atop the Brooklyn Navy Yard [ 1 ] and the third farm, established in 2019, is located at Liberty View in Sunset Park ...
The range was established after the New York Legislature and the newly formed National Rifle Association of America (NRA) collaborated in 1872 to acquire 70 acres of farmland from Bernardus Hendrickson Creed (1811–1889) [2] for long-distance rifle shooting and the holding of shooting competitions.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.5 km 2), all land. [22] The Village of Hempstead differs from the majority of Nassau County as its population density is about 15,000 people per square mile—almost four times that of its neighbor on its northern border, Garden City. [23]
Marsh persuaded the Long Island Rail Road to place a station in the new village, and she named the station Bellerose. Though it has been suggested that she named the station for the Rose farm, south of the railroad, and her daughter Belle, she said that she simply found the name "euphonious". A vote of the homeowners made the name official in 1917.