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Queens

Most visitors to New York City see Queens before any of the other boroughs, as both John F Kennedy and LaGuardia airports are here. This is New York’s biggest borough, and has the second-largest population, over 2 million, including neighbourhoods of Italians, Arabs, Asians, Jews, Hispanic, Greeks and African Americans.

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Whereas many of New York City’s residential areas evolved naturally in an era of rapid growth, Queen has seven thoughtfully planned neighbourhoods in which developers allowed for good landscaping and recreational facilities. These neighbourhoods, founded on the garden city concept, have been dubbed the Seven Sisters, the best known being a mock Tudor-style township called Forest Hills Gardens. Although intended as a low-cost housing project, gentrification elbowed its way in almost before it began, and the well-off – including a strong Jewish community – moved in.
Probably the prettiest of the Sisters is Kew Gardens, with tree-lined streets of well-kept houses in a range of styles. Like Forest Hills, Sunnyside Gardens, in Long Island City, was meant for the working classes when it rose from a swamp in the 1920s. Jackson Heights, home of many South Americans, Douglaston, Richmond Hill and the sublimely named Fresh Meadows are the other Sisters.

 

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» The American Museum of the Moving Image

» Bowne House

» Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

» Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (Gateway National Recreation Area)

» New York Hall of Science

» Queens Museum

» The Rockaways