Queens Village, Queens

Queens Village is a mostly residential neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The Queens Village Post Office serves the ZIP codes of 11427 (Hollis Hills), 11428 (central Queens Village), and 11429 (Bellaire). The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.

Shopping in the community is located along Braddock, Hillside Avenue, Hempstead Avenue, and Jamaica Avenue, as well as on Springfield Boulevard. Located just east of Queens Village, in Nassau County, is the famous Belmont Park race track.

Transportation
The Queens Village station, located at Springfield Boulevard and Amboy Lane, offers service on the Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch to Jamaica station and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.

New York City Bus serves Queens Village on the Q1, Q2, Q27, Q36, Q43, Q46, Q76, Q77, Q83, Q88 and the Q110 routes, and by MTA Long Island Bus on the N1, N6, N22, N24 and the N26 routes.

History
Queens Village was founded as Little Plains in the 1640s. Homage to this part of Queens Village history is found on the sign above the Long Island Railroad Station there. In 1824, Thomas Brush established a blacksmith shop in the area. He prospered and built several other shops and a factory, and the area soon became known as Brushville. In 1834, the railroad arrived. The first station in the area was called Flushing Avenue in 1837, Delancy Avenue in 1838, and Brushville in 1842, likely about a mile west of the present station. In 1856, residents voted to change the name from Brushville to Queens. The name "Inglewood" also was used for both the village and the train station in the 1860s and 1870s. The name Brushville was still used in an 1860 New York Times article, but both Queens and Brushville are used in an 1870 article. Maps from 1873 show portions of Queens Village (then called Inglewood and Queens) in the Town of Hempstead, but 1891 maps show it entirely in the Town of Jamaica. After the Borough of Queens became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York in 1898, and the new county of Nassau was created in 1899, the border between the city and Nassau County was set directly east of Queens Village. A 1901 article in the Brooklyn Eagle already uses the full name Queens Village, a name that had been used as late as the 1880s for Lloyd's Neck, New York in present-day Suffolk County. In 1923, the Long Island Railroad added “Village” to its station’s name to avoid confusion with the county of the same name, and thus the neighborhood became known as Queens Village.

Queens Village was the site of the so-called Dumb-Bell Murder in 1927, a crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend to kill her husband, after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy with a double indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested and Snyder was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1928. This incident was the basis for the book and film versions of the film noir classic Double Indemnity.

Queens Village was part of an overall housing boom that was spreading east through Queens from New York as people from the city sought the bucolic life afforded by the less-crowded atmosphere of the area. Today, many of those charming and well-maintained Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes built in Queens Village during the 1920s and 1930s currently continue to attract an interestingly diverse population.

Education
The Education of Queens Village is typical for that of New York, but is exceptional for its tolerance and diversity, in amounts that depend on the school. As time passes, more schools are built in the area, providing education to the changing population amount.

Known Schools in Queens Village Include:


 * Martin Van Buren High School
 * Edward M. Funk School (PS 33)
 * PS/IS 295
 * IS 109
 * PS 34 John Harvard School


 * Saints Joachim & Anne Catholic School
 * Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
 * Grace Lutheran School
 * St. Joseph's Episcopal Day School
 * Incarnation R.C. School
 * PS 135

(This list may contain incorrect schools or may not contain all schools in the area. Please help by editing the list to make it accurate.)

Demographics
Queens Village, like many parts of Queens, is extremely diverse. Caribbean American, African, African American, Guyanese, Hispanic, Indian, Filipino, and Russian people all have significant populations among the 48,670 people living within the area.

Formerly, a very large Jewish community existed. However, many Jewish families have left for other parts of Queens and parts of Long Island. Still, there is a small Jewish presence in Queens Village, that has recently been augmented by an increase of Middle Eastern Jews. There has also been an increase in the number of Asian American residents.

Queens Village is home to a large Filipino American community.

Queens Village is one of Queens County's affluent neighborhoods. As of 2008, the median income is $66,290, and the median home sales price is around $467,764.

Notable residents

 * George Gately (1928-2001), creator of the Heathcliff comic strip.
 * Tevi Troy, Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
 * Charles Henry Miller, N. A. (1842-1922), noted Long Island Landscape painter.