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  2. Community boards of Queens - Wikipedia

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    The 14 community boards in Queens, and a few representative neighborhoods in each, are listed below: [6] Queens Community Board 1 : Astoria, Long Island City, Rikers Island. Queens Community Board 2 : Sunnyside, Woodside. Queens Community Board 3 : Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, North Corona. Queens Community Board 4 : Elmhurst, Corona.

  3. John F. Kennedy International Airport - Wikipedia

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    The rail network links each airport terminal to the New York City Subway and the Long Island Rail Road at Howard Beach and Jamaica. [68] [69] The airport's new Terminal 1 opened on May 28, 1998; Terminal 4, the $1.4 billion replacement for the International Arrivals Building, opened on May 24, 2001.

  4. Nation Media Group - Wikipedia

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    Products. Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations. Number of employees. 1,400 (2004) Website. www .nationmedia .com. Nation Media Group ( NMG ), formerly East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group listed based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV.

  5. History of the Jews in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Jews comprise approximately 16% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel and the world's largest metropolitan Jewish community. As of 2020 [update] , just over 1.3 million Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City , and over 1.912 million Jews lived in New York-Newark-Jersey ...

  6. 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad placed more officers on trains and increased the visibility of police in response to the shootings. LIRR officials also made counselors available for passengers who wanted one, and sent senior railroad officials out to trains to answer riders' questions.

  7. Jamaica, Queens - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Woodside, Queens - Wikipedia

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    UTC−4 ( EDT) ZIP Code. 11377. Area codes. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Woodside is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bordered on the south by Maspeth, on the north by Astoria, on the west by Sunnyside, and on the east by Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and East Elmhurst.

  9. Long Island - Wikipedia

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    Long Island is an island in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km).