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South Jamaica (also commonly known as "Southside") is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, located south of downtown Jamaica.Although a proper border has not been established, the neighborhood is a subsection of greater Jamaica bounded by the Long Island Rail Road Main Line tracks, Jamaica Avenue, or Liberty Avenue to the north; the Van Wyck Expressway on the ...
Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is mainly composed of a large commercial and retail area, though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by Hollis to the east; St. Albans, Springfield Gardens, Cambria Heights, Rochdale Village to the southeast; South Jamaica to the south; Richmond ...
Hospitals in Queens. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is a private, non-profit teaching hospital and emergency facility in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York City, on the service road of the Van Wyck Expressway at Jamaica Avenue. The hospital is a clinical campus of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine ...
July 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM. Jamaica was braced for impact Wednesday as Hurricane Beryl approaches the Caribbean island nation as a major Category 4 storm, with evacuations ordered ahead of forecasted ...
Jamaica Estates, Queens. Coordinates: 40.719°N 73.774°W. Jamaica Estates Memorial on a spring morning. Jamaica Estates is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Jamaica Estates is part of Queens Community District 8 [1] and located in the northern portion of Jamaica. It is bounded by Union Turnpike to the north, Hillside ...
Jamaica Hills, Queens. Coordinates: 40°42′46″N 73°47′57″W. Captain Tilly Park. Map of Jamaica Hills. Jamaica Hills is a small middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is surrounded by Hillcrest (at the Grand Central Parkway to the north), Jamaica Estates (at Homelawn Street, a continuation of ...
The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Percent Nation. Under the leadership of Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, with Miller, his nephew, as second-in-command, the gang concentrated its criminal efforts ...
An estimated 554,897 Jamaican-born people lived in the U.S. in 2000. [6] This represents 61% of the approximate 911,000 Americans of Jamaican ancestry. Many Jamaicans are second, third and descend from even older generations, as there have been Jamaicans in the U.S. as early as the early twentieth Century.