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Arverne is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, on the Rockaway Peninsula. It was initially developed by Remington Vernam , whose signature "R. Vernam" inspired the name of the neighborhood. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west. It is named for the Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk , which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching from Beach 3rd to Beach 153rd Streets on the ...
[88]: 2, 20 This is lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. [89]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [90] Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 26% are between the ages of 0–17, 25% between 25–44, and 26% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 8% and 14% respectively.
Edgemere, looking towards Arverne View/Ocean Village Edgemere, Queens. Edgemere is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, extending from Beach 32nd to Beach 52nd Street on the Rockaway Peninsula. It contains Rockaway Community Park. [4] Arverne is to the west, and Far Rockaway to the east.
Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood extends from Beach 32nd Street east to the Nassau County line. Its southern boundary is the Atlantic Ocean; it is one of the neighborhoods along Rockaway Beach.
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 ...
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