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State NEW YORK QUEENS (regional info) also see New York City Greater Area Howard Johnson Inn Queens Village Queens is the largest in area and the second most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, New York, USA. The borough is coterminous with Queens County, a county of New York State. Located on the western portion of Long Island, Queens is home to New York City's two major airports (John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia), the New York Mets baseball team, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (home of the annual U.S. Open), Kaufman Astoria Studios, Silvercup Studios, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and Queens Center (the most profitable per-square-foot mall in America). As of the 2005 American Community Survey, immigrants comprise 47.6% of Queens residents. With a population of 2.2 million it is the second most populous borough in New York City (behind Brooklyn) and the tenth most populous county in the United States. The 2.2 million figure is the highest historical population for the borough. Were each borough an independent city, Queens would be the fourth largest city in the United States. Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of New York and was supposedly named for the then-queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, the Catholic wife of Charles II (this is not supported by contemporary documents). The borough is often considered one of the more suburban boroughs of New York City. Neighborhoods in central (except those situated along Queens Boulevard), southern, and eastern Queens have a look and feel similar to the bordering suburbs of western Nassau County. In its northwestern section, however, Queens is home to many urban neighborhoods and several central business districts. Long Island City, on the Queens' waterfront across from Manhattan, is the site of the Citicorp Building, the tallest skyscraper in New York City outside of Manhattan. read full wikipedia reference about Queens, New York OTHER POPULAR DESTINATIONS IN NEW YORKAlbany Amherst Auburn Batavia Binghamton Buffalo Chautauqua Cheektowaga Chestertown Corning Diamond Point East Hampton Elmira Greenport Greenville Hicksville Horseheads Hyde Park Ithaca Jamaica Lake George Lake Luzerne Lake Placid Latham Liverpool Middletown Newburgh New York City Niagara Falls North Creek Painted Post Plattsburgh Poughkeepsie Queens Rhinebeck Rochester Saratoga Springs Schenectady Schroon Lake Shelter Island Skaneateles Southampton Syracuse Tarrytown Utica Warrensburg Warwick Watertown Westfield Westhampton Westport White Plains Williamsville Wilmington Windham Woodstock |
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