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Queens is a crescent-shaped borough traversing the north-to-south width of and including two of the major City area airports, LaGuardia and John F.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport.

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is in the borough of Queens, New York. As one would expect of the main airport of a city like the , JFK is one of the busiest airports worldwide and also the busiest airport in the USA in terms of international passenger traffic.

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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.

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is a large area of Queens, a borough of . Flushing contains a very large Chinatown, and in fact is more diverse than Manhattan's .

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Long Island City and Astoria and Jamaica.

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

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is an expansive neighborhood located in eastern Queens. Historically consisting of predominantly black communities, now is home to an extremely diverse array of peoples and cultures.

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is a neighborhood in Queens, 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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is a peninsula in Queens, a borough of . The area is well known as Queens' main beach area. This article also includes the nearby neighborhoods of Howard Beach and Broad Channel.

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is the name of a large city park and a section of Queens, 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…

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jamaica and Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis.

Railway station
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The station is a major train station of the Long Island Rail Road located in , . With weekday ridership exceeding 200,000 passengers, it is the largest transit hub on , the fourth-busiest rail station in North America, and the second-busiest station that exclusively serves commuter traffic.

Historic building
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or Triboro Tuberculosis Hospital, later simply Triboro Hospital and now known as "Building T" or the "T Building", is a former municipal tuberculosis sanatorium and later a general hospital located on the campus of Queens Hospital Center in , .

Hospital
is a private, non-profit teaching hospital and emergency facility in the neighborhood of Queens, New York City, on the service road of the Van Wyck Expressway at Jamaica Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Richmond Hill and Elmhurst.

Neighborhood
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is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the southeastern section of the borough of Queens. The area borders Kew Gardens and to the north, and to the east, South Ozone Park to the south, and and Ozone Park to the west.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens 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. is situated 3 miles northwest of Queens.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in . It borders and to the east, Jackson Heights to the west, and Rego Park to the south, to the southwest, and to the north. is situated 3 miles northwest of Queens.

Queens

Latitude
40.7135° or 40° 42′ 49″ north
Longitude
-73.8283° or 73° 49′ 42″ west
Population
2,410,000
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US UJV
Open location code
87G8P57C+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158863443
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
5133273
Wiki­data ID
Q18424
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Queens” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوينز، مدينة نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “كوينز، نيويورك”
  • Arabic: “كوينز”
  • Armenian: “Քուինս”
  • Asturian: “Queens”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuins”
  • Balinese: “Queens”
  • Basque: “Queens”
  • Bavarian: “Queens”
  • Belarusian: “Кўінз”
  • Belarusian: “Куінс”
  • Bengali: “কুইন্‌স”
  • Bhojpuri: “क्वीन्स”
  • Bishnupriya: “কুইন্স কাউন্টি, নিউ ইয়র্ক”
  • Bishnupriya: “কুইন্স কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Queens”
  • Breton: “Queens”
  • Bulgarian: “Куинс”
  • Catalan: “Queens”
  • Cebuano: “Borough of Queens”
  • Chechen: “Куинс (гуо, Нью-Йорк)”
  • Chechen: “Куинс”
  • Chinese: “Queens”
  • Chinese: “皇后區”
  • Croatian: “Queens, New York”
  • Croatian: “Queens”
  • Czech: “Queens”
  • Danish: “Queens”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Queens”
  • Dutch: “Queens”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوينز”
  • Esperanto: “Kvino”
  • Esperanto: “Kvinzo”
  • Estonian: “Queens”
  • Finnish: “Queens”
  • French: “Comté de Queens”
  • French: “Queens”
  • Galician: “Queens”
  • Georgian: “კუინზი”
  • Georgian: “ქვინზი”
  • German: “Queens”
  • Gilaki: “کۊئينز (نيۊیؤرک)”
  • Gilaki: “کۊئينز”
  • Greek: “Κουίνς, Νέα Υόρκη”
  • Greek: “Κουίνς”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વીન્સ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fòng-heu-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Queens”
  • Hebrew: “קווינס”
  • Hindi: “क्वीनस”
  • Hungarian: “Queens”
  • Icelandic: “Queens”
  • Ido: “Queens”
  • Indonesian: “Queens”
  • Interlingua: “Queens”
  • Irish: “Queens”
  • Italian: “Queens”
  • Japanese: “クイーンズ区”
  • Korean: “퀸스”
  • Kurdish: “Queens”
  • Ladin: “Queens”
  • Latin: “Queens”
  • Latvian: “Kvīnsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvinsas”
  • Low German: “Queens County”
  • Luxembourgish: “Queens”
  • Macedonian: “Квинс”
  • Malagasy: “Queens”
  • Manx: “Queens”
  • Marathi: “क्वीन्स”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Queens”
  • Mingrelian: “ქუინსი”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߎߌ߲ߛ߸ ߣߌߥߦ ߦߐߙߞ ߛߌߕߌ߬”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߎߌ߲ߛ”
  • Nauru: “Queens”
  • Northern Frisian: “Queens”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Queens, New York”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Queens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Queens”
  • Norwegian: “Queens”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Queens”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cwēnenbyrig, Niweoforwicburg”
  • Ossetian: “Куинс”
  • Persian: “کویینز”
  • Polish: “Queens”
  • Portuguese: “Queens”
  • Romanian: “Queens”
  • Russian: “Куинс”
  • Scots: “Queens”
  • Serbian: “Kvins”
  • Serbian: “Квинс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Queens”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوئينز”
  • Slovak: “Queens”
  • Slovenian: “Queens”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوینز”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Queens”
  • Spanish: “Queens (Nueva York)”
  • Spanish: “Queens”
  • Swahili: “Queens”
  • Swedish: “Queens”
  • Tagalog: “Queens”
  • Tajik: “Куинс”
  • Tamil: “குயின்சு”
  • Tatar: “Куинс”
  • Thai: “ควีนส์”
  • Tumbuka: “Queens”
  • Turkish: “Queens”
  • Ukrainian: “Queens”
  • Ukrainian: “Квінз”
  • Ukrainian: “Квінс”
  • Urdu: “کوئینز”
  • Uzbek: “Queens”
  • Venetian: “Queens”
  • Vietnamese: “Queens, New York City”
  • Vietnamese: “Queens”
  • Vlax Romani: “Queens”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Queens”
  • Welsh: “Queens”
  • Western Armenian: “Քուինս”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوینز”
  • Wu Chinese: “皇后区”
  • Yakut: “Куинс”
  • Yiddish: “קווינס”
  • Yue Chinese: “皇后區”
  • “Queens”
  • “क्वीन्स”

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