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Elmhurst

Elmhurst is a neighborhood in the borough of in . It is bounded by Roosevelt Avenue on the north; the Long Island Expressway on the south; Junction Boulevard on the east; and the New York Connecting Railroad on the west.
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  • Type: Quarter with 113,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Queens, New York City, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Elmhurst, Long Island”, “Elmhurst, Queens”, “Neutuyn”, “Newtown, Long Island”, “Newtown, New York”, and “Newtown, Queens County”
  • Historically known as: “Middeburgh”, “Middelburg”, “Middelburgh”, and “Newtown”
  • Postal codes: 11373 and 11380

Places of Interest

Highlights include Forest Park and LaGuardia Airport.

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is the name of a large city park and a section of , a borough of . It includes the neighborhoods of Forest Hills, a well-kept, leafy neighborhood of relatively well-to-do homeowners and immigrants from areas including the former…

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is the third major airport in the area. While and Newark Airport are major international airports, LaGuardia mostly serves domestic flights.

Stadium
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is a tennis arena at in , New York City. Part of the , it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jackson Heights and Metro New York.

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is a neighborhood in , a borough of . Woodside, Elmhurst and Corona are also covered in this article. To an increasing number of travelers and curious New York natives, the area offers a diversity of mostly reasonably-priced restaurants representing many of the world's cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Italian, and Argentine.

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or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around in the states of , , and . It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the United States.

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Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

Elmhurst

Latitude
40.7366° or 40° 44′ 12″ north
Longitude
-73.8784° or 73° 52′ 42″ west
Population
113,000
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
87G8P4PC+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158874245
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
5116495
Wiki­data ID
Q2180242
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Elmhurst” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إلم هرست”
  • Chinese: “埃姆赫斯特”
  • Chinese: “艾姆赫斯特”
  • Dutch: “Elmhurst”
  • French: “Elmhurst”
  • German: “Elmhurst”
  • Greek: “Έλμχερστ”
  • Hebrew: “אלמהארסט”
  • Italian: “Elmhurst”
  • Japanese: “エルムハースト (クイーンズ)”
  • Japanese: “エルムハースト（ニューヨーク・クイーンズ）”
  • Japanese: “エルムハースト”
  • Japanese: “エルムハースト地区 (クイーンズ)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elmhurst”
  • Romanian: “Elmhurst, Queens”
  • Romanian: “Elmhurst”
  • Russian: “Элмхерст (Куинс)”
  • Russian: “Элмхерст”
  • Spanish: “Elmhurst (Queens)”
  • Spanish: “Elmhurst”
  • Swedish: “Elmhurst”
  • Turkish: “Elmhurst, Queens”
  • Turkish: “Elmhurst”
  • Urdu: “ایلم ہرسٹ، کوئینز”

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