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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge in New York City managed by the National Park Service as part of Gateway National Recreation Area. It is composed of the open water and intertidal salt marshes and wetlands of Jamaica Bay. It lies entirely within the boundaries of New York City, divided between the ...
Baisley Pond Park is a public park located in the southeastern part of Queens, New York City, bordering the neighborhoods of South Jamaica, Rochdale, and St. Albans. It covers 109.61 acres (44.36 ha), including the 30-acre (12 ha) Baisley Pond in the center of the park. It is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Bayswater Point State Park. / 40.61°N 73.77°W / 40.61; -73.77. Bayswater Point State Park is a 17-acre (0.069 km 2) state park located on Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York. The park is located at the western end of Mott Avenue in Bayswater near Far Rockaway and is built on land that once housed the mansion and estate of banker Louis A ...
While the resident wildlife of Jamaica Bay are poorly studied, survey data indicate that Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways support seasonal or year-round populations of at least 325 bird species, more than 100 species of fish, and more than 80 butterfly species. Geography Jamaica Bay from the northwest (2013)
Alley Pond Park is the second-largest public park in Queens, New York City, occupying 655.3 acres (265.2 ha). The park is bordered to the east by Douglaston, to the west by Bayside, to the north by Little Neck Bay, and to the south by Union Turnpike. The Cross Island Parkway travels north-south through the park, while the Long Island Expressway ...
Spring Creek Park. / 40.650890; -73.848957. Spring Creek Park is a public park along the Jamaica Bay shoreline between the neighborhoods of Howard Beach, Queens, and Spring Creek, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created on landfilled former marshland, [1] : 5 the park is mostly an undeveloped nature preserve, with only small portions accessible to ...
20th and 21st centuries Loew's Valencia, a former theater opened in 1929 164th Street at Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, Queens. The present Jamaica station of the Long Island Rail Road was completed in 1913, and the BMT Jamaica Line arrived in 1918, followed by the IND Queens Boulevard Line in 1936 and the IND/BMT Archer Avenue lines in 1988, the latter of which replaced the eastern portion of the ...
Queens neighborhoods may have one of the following ZIP Code prefixes, which are classified under the following main post offices: 111: Long Island City; 113: Flushing; 114: Jamaica; 116: Rockaway; See also. New York City portal; List of Bronx neighborhoods; List of Brooklyn neighborhoods; List of Manhattan neighborhoods