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Jackson Heights

Jackson Heights 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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  • Type: Neighborhood with 67,100 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Queens, New York City, USA
  • Also known as: “Jackson Heights, New York City”, “Jackson Heights, Queens”, and “Trains Meadow”
  • Postal code: 11372

Places of Interest

Highlights include Travers Park and 82nd Street–Jackson Heights station.

Park
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is a 2-acre community park and playground in Jackson Heights, , . It is located between 77th and 78th Streets, on the north side of 34th Avenue.

Metro station
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The is a local station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens. It is served by the 7 train at all times.

Theater building
was an 1,839-seat theater opened in 1926 in the Jackson Heights section of , . It now lives on as the Boulevard Latin Cuisine restaurant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Metro New York and Elmhurst.

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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 .

Quarter
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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.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of in . It is bordered on the south by , on the north by , on the west by , and on the east by , Jackson Heights, and .

Jackson Heights

Latitude
40.75566° or 40° 45′ 20″ north
Longitude
-73.88578° or 73° 53′ 9″ west
Population
67,100
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US JKH
Open location code
87G8Q447+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158856995
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
5122477
Wiki­data ID
Q1145574
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Jackson Heights” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جاكسون هايتس”
  • Basque: “Jackson Heights”
  • Catalan: “Jackson Heights”
  • Chinese: “傑克森高地”
  • Chinese: “傑克遜高地”
  • Chinese: “杰克逊高地”
  • Danish: “Jackson Heights”
  • Dutch: “Jackson Heights”
  • French: “Jackson Heights”
  • Galician: “Jackson Heights”
  • German: “Jackson Heights”
  • Hebrew: “קווינס/ג’קסון הייטס”
  • Indonesian: “Jackson Heights, Queens”
  • Indonesian: “Jackson Heights”
  • Irish: “Jackson Heights”
  • Italian: “Jackson Heights”
  • Japanese: “ジャクソン・ハイツ (クイーンズ)”
  • Japanese: “ジャクソン・ハイツ”
  • Japanese: “ジャクソン・ハイツ地区 (クイーンズ)”
  • Japanese: “ジャクソンハイツ (クイーンズ区)”
  • Korean: “잭슨 하이츠”
  • Korean: “잭슨하이츠”
  • Portuguese: “Jackson Heights”
  • Russian: “Джексон-Хайтс”
  • Russian: “Джэксон-Хайтс”
  • Slovenian: “Jackson Heights”
  • Spanish: “Jackson Heights (Queens)”
  • Spanish: “Jackson Heights”
  • Swedish: “Jackson Heights”
  • Turkish: “Jackson Heights, Queens”
  • Turkish: “Jackson Heights”
  • Urdu: “جیکسن ہائیٹس، کوئینز”
  • Welsh: “Jackson Heights”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jackson Heights”. Photo: Jleon, CC BY 2.5.