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Jamaica Avenue was an ancient trail for tribes from as far away as the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, coming to trade skins and furs for wampum. [15] It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "Beaver Pond" (now filled in; what is now Tuckerton Street north of Liberty Avenue ...
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 ...
Jamaica Bay (also known as Grassy Bay) is an estuary on the southern portion of the western tip of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. The estuary is partially man-made, and partially natural. The bay connects with Lower New York Bay to the west, through Rockaway Inlet, and is the westernmost of the coastal lagoons on the south shore of ...
ZIP Codes. 11362, 11363. Area codes. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Douglaston–Little Neck is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The community is located on the North Shore of Long Island, bordered to the east by the region of Great Neck in Nassau County, to the south by Glen Oaks and the North Shore ...
Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States.The population in the Village of Valley Stream was 37,511 at the 2010 census. [2]The incorporated Village of Valley Stream is within the Town of Hempstead, along the border with Queens, and is served by the Long Island Rail Road at the Valley Stream, Gibson, and Westwood stations.
New York State Route 25 NY 25 highlighted in red and former reference routes in blue Route information Maintained by NYSDOT, NYCDOT and the village of Greenport Length 105.07 mi (169.09 km) Existed mid-1920s –present Component highways (1) Queens Boulevard in most of Queens (2) Hillside Avenue in eastern Queens (3) Jericho Turnpike on most of Long Island (4) Middle Country Road in Suffolk ...
The Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike station (signed as Union Turnpike–Kew Gardens station on overhead and entrance signs) [ 5][ 6] is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Union Turnpike and Queens Boulevard on the border of Kew Gardens and Forest Hills, Queens, it is served by the E and F ...
Coordinates. 40°42′04″N 73°47′59″W / . 40.701051°N 73.799631°W. / 40.701051; -73.799631. Type. former lake. Beaver Pond was a pond in Jamaica, Queens, New York. Water flowed out of the pond through Baisley Creek towards Baisley Pond. From there, it flowed through Cornell Creek into Jamaica Bay.