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Astoria Park is a 59.96-acre (24.26 ha) public park in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City.The park is situated on the eastern shore of the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Ditmars Boulevard to the north and Hoyt Avenue to the south.
Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens.Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.
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 Queens portion includes the neighborhoods of Astoria, College Point, Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Woodside. The Bronx portion of the district includes the neighborhoods of City Island , Country Club , Van Nest , Morris Park , Parkchester , Pelham Bay , Schuylerville , and Throggs Neck .
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
New York's 6th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City, located entirely within Queens. It is represented by Democrat Grace Meng. A plurality of the district's population is Asian-American, and a majority of its population is non-white.
The New York City borough of Queens contains 82 landmarks designated by the LPC, [a] 4 interior landmarks, and 13 historic districts. The following is a complete list as of 2022. Some of these are also National Historic Landmark (NHL) sites, and NHL status is noted where known.
The Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard station is the last stop on the New York City Subway's BMT Astoria Line, served by the N and W trains. The approach to the Hell Gate Bridge is on a masonry viaduct over that station. [4] MTA Bus's Q69 route runs on the western half of Ditmars Boulevard east of 21st Street. Service to Long Island City originates ...