New York - New York City - Queens
Queens, by far the largest of the boroughs, covers 121 square miles of the westernmost end of Long Island, about 37 per cent of the city's total area; its population ( 2000) is 2,229,379. The growth of this borough, dependent in large part upon subway, road, and bridge extensions, was further stimulated by the establishment of the New York World's Fair at Flushing. Within recent years the 100 or so communities in Queens have steadily been crystallizing into one vast residential area. The East River separates the borough on the west from the Middle and Upper East Side of Manhattan and on the north from the East Bronx. The North Shore is deeply indented by Flushing and Little Neck bays. Newtown Creek, a four-mile tidal arm of the East River, forms part of the western boundary line (between Queens and Brooklyn), which extends irregularly across Long Island to isle-studded Jamaica Bay, semicircular in shape and about the size of Upper New York Bay. On the south the narrow ten-mile Rockaway peninsula shields Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean, and on the east Queens merges with Nassau County.
Since the creation of Greater New York in 1898, Queens has grown faster, relatively, than any other borough, yet with the exception of Staten Island it is still the least developed. The "borough of homes" is an amalgam of several score of towns and villages, some three centuries old, others no older than yesterday's real-estate boom. Several of these communities still have independent post-office designations. The neighborhoods of the borough range from intensively industrialized Long Island City and such large-scale residential developments as Forest Hills and Kew Gardens, to the numerous beach colonies and isolated islets of the Rockaways. Long Island City lies opposite mid-town Manhattan; near the Brooklyn-Queens borough line are Maspeth, Ridgewood, Glendale, Woodhaven, Ozone Park; east of Long Island City and in the central part of the borough, Woodside, Winfield, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, Queens Village; along the North Shore, Astoria, Jackson Heights, Corona, Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, and Little Neck.
POINTS OF INTEREST
LA GUARDIA FIELD (Triborough Bridge, Grand Central Parkway to airport; Independent-Flushing subway to Junction Blvd., then bus to airport), Grand Central Parkway and 94th St., North Beach, is the one of the city's airports, and one of its two municipal fields. It is a combination landplane and seaplane terminal.
The KING MANSION (before 1750), Jamaica Ave. near 153rd St., King Park, Georgian Colonial, was the country seat of Rufus King from 1806 to 1827. It contains a collection of Colonial furniture and relics, Colonial toys, books, documents, arms, army buttons, and Long Island money.
JACOB RIIS PARK, foot of Rockaway Beach Blvd. (or from foot of Flatbush Ave. across Marine Parkway Bridge), partly a WPA project, was opened to public in 1937. It offers a bathhouse, boardwalk, play areas, two of which are free; music weekdays; fireworks every Wednesday evening.

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