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Queens Village, Queens
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Queens Village is a middle-income neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, covering the zip codes 11427, 11428, and 11429. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.[1]
Shopping in the community is located along Braddock, Hillside Avenue and Jamaica Avenues, as well as on Springfield Boulevard.
Located just east of Queens Village, in Nassau County, is the famous Belmont Park Thoroughbred race track.
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The Queens Village station, located at Springfield Boulevard and Amboy Lane, offers service on the Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch to Jamaica station and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.
New York City Bus serves Queens Village on the Q1, Q2, Q27, Q36, Q88, Q43, Q76, Q77, Q83 and the Q110 routes, and by MTA Long Island Bus on the N1, N2, N3, N6, N22, N24 and the N26 routes.
Queens Village was the site of the so-called Dumb-Bell Murder in 1927, a crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend to kill her husband, after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy with a double indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested and Snyder was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1928. This incident was the basis for the book and film versions of the film noir classic Double Indemnity.[2]
Queens Village, like many neighborhoods in Queens is extremely diverse. Recently, an influx of African Americans live in the neighborhood. Guyanese, Hispanic, Indians, Filipinos, and Russians people all have significant populations within the region. Formerly, a very large Jewish community existed. However, after recent episodes of white flight, many Jewish families have left for Bayside, Flushing, and parts of Long Island. Still, there is a small Jewish presence in Queens Village, that has recently begain to augment with a recent increase of Middle Eastern Jews and Asians.
Notable current and former residents of Queens Village include:
- George Gately (1928-2001), creator of the Heathcliff comic strip.[3]
- Tevi Troy, Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.[4]
- ^ Queens Community Boards, New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.
- ^ Crime Magazine - The Dumb-Bell Murder, accessed September 8, 2005.
- ^ Hernandez, Cava. "GEORGE GATELY : Creador del gato Heathcliff", El Mundo (Spain), October 6, 2001. Accessed November 20, 2007. "George Gately Gallagher nació en Queens Village, Nueva York, en 1928, meses antes de que estallase la Gran Depresión. Pero, a todos los efectos, hay que considerarle un habitante de New Jersey, en cuya localidad de Bergenfield es donde transcurrieron su infancia y su adolescencia."
- ^ WEDDINGS; Kami Pliskow And Tevi Troy, The New York Times, August 15, 1999. Accessed October 11, 2007.
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