rekordowe-miejsca: Queens

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Queens is the largest by area of the five boroughs of New York City, and the second most populous, with a population of 2,405,464 as of the 2020 census. Since 1899 the borough is coextensive with Queens County, the second-most populous county in New York state, behind Kings County (Brooklyn). If Queens were its own city, it would be the fourth most-populous in the United States, after the other four boroughs of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated borough in New York City and the fourth-most densely populated U.S. county. Located near the western end of Long Island, the borough is bordered by Brooklyn to its west, and by Nassau County to its e…

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The New York metropolitan area, also called the Tri-State area and sometimes referred to as Greater New York or Metro New York, is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropolitan product of over US $2.6 trillion. It is also the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km2). Among the most populous metro areas in the world, New York is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the only one with more than 20 million residents, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. The core of this vast area, the New York metropolitan statistical area, includes New York City and much of Downstate New York (Long I…

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New York City is made up of five governmental districts named boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of New York state: The Bronx is Bronx County; Brooklyn is Kings County; Manhattan is New York County; Queens is Queens County; and Staten Island is Richmond County. All five boroughs came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County (then including the Bronx), Kings County, Richmond County, and part of Queens County were consolidated within one municipal government under a new city charter. All former municipalities within the newly consolidated city were dissolved. Th…

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Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, with the intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue at its core being the third-busiest in New York City, behind Times Square and Herald Square. Flushing was established as a settlement of New Netherland on October 10, 1645, on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek. It was named Vlissingen, after the Dutch city of Vlissingen. The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664, and when Queens County was established in 1683, the Town of Flushing was one of the…

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Expanding frameworks: Integrating vulnerability, exposure, and critical infrastructure to assess pluvial flood risks in New York City.. Extreme precipitation events are increasing their frequency and intensity across the United States, posing growing risks to urban communities through pluvial flooding. Effective adaptation against pluvial flooding through structural and nonstructural measures requires understanding the spatial distribution of flood risks across urban populations and critical infrastructures. However, most flood risk assessments focus narrowly on the direct impacts of flooding and demographic exposures, overlooking disruptions that may result from indirect exposures and impa…

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New York City Neighborhood Wellness Survey: an expansive population-level behavioral health assessment of New York City residents, 2023.. OBJECTIVE: To identify and contextualize behavioral health needs among New York City residents ages 18 or older. METHODS: The New York City Neighborhood Wellness survey was a population-based, cross-sectional survey conducted from May to September 2023. An address-based sampling approach was used to select households for participation, and one adult per household was asked to complete the survey. The survey primarily focused on mental health and substance use but also included questions regarding participants’ care for children and youth, interactions wit…

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Understanding pre- and post-COVID urban neighborhood dynamics: a study analyzing georeferenced tweets for New York City.. Sudden disruptions, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can reshape multiple dimensions of everyday urban life by affecting social interactions, mobility patterns, and the use of urban spaces. Previous research efforts trying to understand the consequences for citizens relied on top-down proxies such as mobility traces, transit usage, or aggregate economic indicators. While these capture where and how much people move, they do not create new insights into how different domains of everyday urban life are perceived, discussed, and coped with over time. This study investigates h…

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There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens. As of 2023, illegal Chinese immigration to New York has accelerated, and its Flushing neighborhood has become the present-day global epicenter receiving Chinese immigration as well as the international control center directing such migration. As of 2024, a significant new wave of Chinese Muslims are fleeing religious…

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Wildfire smoke exposure and school absences in New York City Public Schools, 2011-2019.. Climate change is intensifying wildfire frequency and severity across North America, degrading air quality in urban areas far from fire sources. While the direct health effects of wildfire smoke are well-documented, associations with educational outcomes remain poorly characterized. We conducted a time-stratified case-crossover study linking 2.11 million school-days from 1,443 New York City (NYC) public elementary, middle, and high schools over the 2011-2012 to 2018-2019 academic years with tract-level wildfire smoke fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) estimates, meteorological data, and school-level soci…

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Community severance and mental health-related hospital visits in New York City.. Background Mental health disorders are more prevalent in urban areas; urban living has been linked to increased risk of anxiety, mood, and schizophrenia disorders. These associations may be partially explained by the social and physical urban environment. While traffic-related exposures such as air pollution and noise have been linked to adverse mental health outcomes, the role of road infrastructure and traffic in severing communities and breaking down the social fabric-termed community severance-remains understudied. Methods We conducted ZIP code-level analyses (2011-2014) to investigate the association betwe…

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Bellerose is an ethnically diverse, middle-class neighborhood on the eastern edge of the New York City borough of Queens, along the border of Queens and Nassau County, Long Island. It is adjacent to Bellerose Village and Bellerose Terrace in Nassau County, from which it is separated by Jericho Turnpike. The northern edge of Bellerose is separated from another part of the Nassau border by the neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens to the east, divided by Little Neck Parkway. The neighborhood consists predominantly of detached houses with mostly middle-class Indian American and European American populations. While the northeastern section of Queens Village is sometimes referred to as part of Bel…

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Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bound by Hollis to the west, Cambria Heights to the south, Bellerose, Queens and Elmont, Nassau County to the east, and Oakland Gardens to the north. Shopping in the community is located along Braddock Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Hempstead Avenue, Jamaica Avenue (NY 25), Francis Lewis Boulevard, and Springfield Boulevard. Located just east of Queens Village, in Elmont, Nassau County, is the Belmont Park race track. Close to the neighborhood are Cunningham Park and Alley Pond Park, as well as the historic Long Island Motor Parkway (LIMP), home of the turn of the cen…