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Downtown Flushing has become one of the busiest central core neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. Parts of Queens such as Bellerose and Forest Hills are relatively suburban in character. Queens is the site of Citi Field, the baseball stadium of the New York Mets, and hosts the annual U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
One proposal called for the cost to be divided evenly between the New York City, Brooklyn, and Queens governments. [64] Another proposal called for the city to pay half the cost and the Brooklyn and Queens governments to split the other half; [61] [63] the Committee of Assessments recommended using this cost breakdown. [61]
The New York City government's budget is the largest municipal budget in the United States, [2] totaling about $112.4 billion in 2024. It employs 250,000 people, spends $23.5 billion to educate more than 1.1 million children, levies $27 billion in taxes, and receives $14 billion from federal and state governments.
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.
The New York metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 20.1 million residents, or slightly over 6% of the nation's total population, as of 2020. [8] The combined statistical area includes 23.6 million residents as of 2020. [14] [15] It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world.
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 .
The average wealth gap between white families and Black and Hispanic ones reached a new high in 2022, according to a new report by the Urban Institute.
On March 27, 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the city would file a formal challenge to the Census results, as a result of alleged undercounting in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. [45] The mayor has asserted that the numbers for Queens and Brooklyn, the two most populous boroughs, are implausible. [46]