Queens Village
Queens Village
Queens Village on the eastern edge of Queens is a suburban, middle-class neighborhood with a LIRR train station. It's a modest neighborhood of single-and multi-family houses on small plots. There are a small number of apartment buildings and co-ops.
The neighborhood is diverse, attracting young families and immigrants from the Caribbean, Philippines, India, Latin America, and elsewhere. Developed in
What's in a Name?
Queens Village has had four names. In colonial days, the area was known as Little Plains, part of a much larger treeless plain. In the early 1800s a hamlet in the area was Brushville. Then in the mid-1800s the name changed to Queens, named after the county (not yet a borough). As development grew after becoming part of New York City in the late 1800s, the name got changed again to Queens Village.
Lloyd Neck, a village in Suffolk County, farther east on Long Island, was known in the 1800s as Queens Village. The village had then been part of Queens County.
Neighborhood Basics
- Queens Library at Glendale - 94-11 215th Street, Queens Village, NY 11428
- Parking is fairly abundant, except on the main commercial roads.
- Post Office - 20920 Jamaica Ave, Queens Village, NY 11428
- Police Station - 105th Precinct, 92-08 222nd Street, Queens Village, NY, 718-776-9090
- Community Board 13 - 219-41 Jamaica Avenue, Queens Village, NY 11428, 718-464-9700
- Schools - P.S. 018 The Winchester School; P.S./I.S. 295; I.S. 109 Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School; P.S. 034 John Harvard School; Martin Van Buren High School; Edward M. Funk School (PS 33); P.S. 135 The Bellaire School; Saints Joachim and Anne School; Our Lady of Lourdes School
- Zip Code - 11427, 11428, 11429
