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96 unusual facts about Queens


Alan Dugan

Dugan grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and served in World War II, experiences which entered his poetry, though he was not a confessional poet.

Albert Jewell

On January 4, 1914, a human torso was washed up on the beach at Edgemere, Queens, following a storm and was suspected to be Jewell's.

Alex Corbisiero

Born 30 August 1988, Alexander Corbisiero is the great grandson of Riccardo Corbisiero, who emigrated from Naples to the United States in 1923 and established Riccardo's – a restaurant well known for its continental cuisine – in Astoria, Queens in the early 1950s.

Alfred H. Grebe

At the age of 9 he was given a radio set by his father, and soon came to be such an expert that his science teacher at Public School 88 in Jamaica said Alfred knew more than he did.

Anavryti, Laconia

The first paved road to Anavryti was built in the 1980s with donations sent by the Anavryti Hometown society in Astoria, Queens, New York.

Anthony Federici

He owns the Parkside Restaurant, a popular Italian restaurter in Corona, Queens.

Anthony "Tough Tony" Federici (born July 28, 1940) is a Queens, New York City resident who has been identified as a captain in the Genovese crime family.

BMT Broadway Line

The local tracks stretch the entire length between the two East River tunnels: the Montague Street Tunnel to the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Brooklyn and the 60th Street Tunnel to the BMT Astoria Line and 60th Street Tunnel Connection in Queens.

Breezy Point

Breezy Point, Queens, New York, a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula

Carmine Agnello

Undercover New York Police Department (NYPD) officers had set up a phony scrap metal business in Willets Point, Queens.

Cedric Jackson

Jackson began his collegiate career at St. John's University in Queens, New York.

Clive Chin

After his family business moved to New York City, Chin spent some fifteen years running a Jamaican restaurant in Queens.

Conduit current collection

Trolley lines from Brooklyn and Queens also entered Manhattan under wire, but did not use city streets.

Dave Kerpen

In March 2009, Kerpen formed an exploratory committee to determine whether to run for the position of borough president of Queens.

David Xavier Cifu

Cifu spent the first three years of his life living in Queens and then in May 1965, Cifu’s family moved to Syosset, Long Island.

Desiree Coleman

Desiree Coleman Jackson aka Dez (born September 12, 1966), Jamaica, Queens, New York, is an American vocalist and actress.

Donald A. Swan

During the raid on Swan's apartment in Queens, New York, the police found Nazi memorabilia, weapons and ammunition.

Ed Deacy

His wife, Jane Deacy, has been the Republican District Leader for South Queens since 2007.

Edgemere

Edgemere, Queens, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens

Eric Gioia

He was elected to two year terms in 2001 and 2003 and to a four year term in 2005, representing the Queens neighborhoods of Woodside, Sunnyside, Maspeth, and Long Island City.

Francis Xavier Ford

He attended Cathedral College in Elmhurst, Queens.

Frank Goldsborough

By the time he was 18 the family was living in New York where he attended Flushing High School in Queens.

Gad Elbaz

Elbaz has performed at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School; an Orthodox Jewish school in Miami, Florida and at a public high school in Queens, New York.

Gerald Barbarito

After his ordination, he was assigned to St. Helen's Church in Howard Beach, Queens.

Green Haven Correctional Facility

Operating out of the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, Gotti quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce.

Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society

The organization ran shelters for recent Jewish immigrants at Castle Garden, New York's immigration center at the Battery prior to the 1892 opening of the facility at Ellis Island; Wards Island near the meeting point of Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens; and Greenpoint in Brooklyn.

Hermann Grab

He died fully invalid in 1949 in New York and was buried at Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

Himanshu Suri

Born and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Suri graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2003, where he was the vice president when the September 11 attacks happened two blocks away.

Interstate 78 in New York

There it would follow the Nassau Expressway along the north boundary of the airport and turn north along the Clearview Expressway through Queens, crossing the East River again on the Throgs Neck Bridge into the Bronx.

Ivan Lafayette

Ivan C. Lafayette (born July 28, 1930) represented the 34th District in the New York State Assembly, which comprises portions of Jackson Heights, Corona and Elmhurst.

Jackson Heights

Jackson Heights, Queens, an area within the Queens section of New York City

James Baba

His Master of Arts degree in Public Administration was awarded in 1993 from St. John's University in Queens, New York City.

Jeff Pegues

As the storm crashed into New York City he reported on the rising flood water and spreading fires in Queens.

JFK Expressway

Due to a freeway revolt, the Clearview Expressway was only completed as far south as Hillside Avenue (NY 25); the expressway was to continue south from Hillside Avenue to NY 27 (Conduit Avenue) in Laurelton and west across Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan to the Holland Tunnel.

John Archibald Venn

John Archibald Venn CMG FSA JP (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958), son of John Venn, was a British economist, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–43, university archivist, and author, alongside his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses.

John Nihill

Following Nihill's retirement from the military, he returned to New York and lived in Whitestone, Long Island until his death on May 29, 1908, only four days after his 58th birthday.

John P. McGarr

McGarr was born in Woodside, Queens, New York and attended Corpus Christi Grammar School.

Jonael Schickler

He graduated with a First and, after a year as a cellist with a Berlin orchestra, Schickler returned to Cambridge (Queens' College, Cambridge) to read for a Doctorate in the Faculty of Divinity, under the supervision of George Pattison.

Joseph DeFede

DeFede explained the Garment District rackets and the protection rackets in Howard Beach, Queens.

Julia Gerity

By 1938 she was back in New York City and appeared at the Queens Terrace nightclub in Woodside, Queens, New York.

Kamahl Santamaria

He was on his way to Barbados - where the event was due to finish - when he was grounded at New York's JKF Airport, following the American Airlines Flight 587 crash in Queens.

Karina Brez

She immigrated from the Ukraine in 1989, moving to Jackson Heights, New York, and later years to Palm Beach, Florida.

Kristin Prevallet

In her academic life, she has taught at Bard College, The New School for Social Research, and currently at St. John's University in Queens.

Lake Entertainment Presents: The 41st Side

The compilation features other artists exclusively from the 41st Side of Queens.

Lawrence R. Goldfarb

Lawrence R. Goldfarb (born November 21, 1958 in Queens, New York City, NY) is an American hedge fund manager and former CEO and founding partner of the LRG Capital Group, and co-founder and board member of AutismAid.

Lazar Weiner

Lazar Weiner (Cherkassy, 1897 - Flushing, Queens, March 13, 1982) was an Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer of Yiddish song.

Lidia Bastianich

In 1971, the Bastianich couple opened their first restaurant, the tiny Buonavia, meaning "good road", in the Forest Hills section of Queens, with Bastianich as its hostess.

Lifeline Center for Child Development

The Lifeline Center for Child Development in Queens, NY, is a non-profit psychiatric day treatment center and special education school serving emotionally and mentally disturbed children and their families from the New York metropolitan area.

Long Island Lighting Company

The Long Island Lighting Company, or LILCO "lil-co" , was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for the communities of Long Island, New York, serving 2.7 million people in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.

Loraine Vélez

Their father was a New York City police officer, who eventually bought a house in the middle-class neighborhood of Queens and moved there with his wife and eight children.

Luovi Halling

He died at age 60 and was buried at Saint Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst, New York.

Lynn Gottlieb

Gottlieb entered pulpit life at the age of 23 in 1973, as leader of Temple Beth Or of the Deaf in Queens.

Lynne Serpe

She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.

Marantz

The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul B. Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York.

Marshall Barer

Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.

Maurice E. Connolly

Born in Corona, Queens, Queens County, New York, he was the son of Maurice Connolly and Mary Jane Connolly.

Mercurybeatz

David "Mercury" Haulsey, Super Producer, was born in Queens, New York, who later relocated to South Jersey--where he still gets it in!

Michael Genelin

Michael Genelin was born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Queens where he attended PS 36 and Newtown High School.

Michael Gianaris

He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.

Michael Sergio

Immediately arrested, Sergio spent a short time in prison, because he would not reveal the name of the pilot who flew him over Queens that evening.

Mike Jarvis

Among these, a junior college transfer had been charged with assaulting a female student, and a senior guard had been kicked off the team after being caught smoking marijuana near St. John's campus in Queens.

Mildred Edie Brady

In 1947 Brady approached Reich for an interview at his home in Forest Hills, Queens.

Miss New York United States 2011

Pappas is a resident of Whitestone, Queens, and became eligible to compete in the 2011 national Miss United States competition held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nelson Saldana

Nelson Saldana is a former American track cycling Champion originally from Kew Gardens, Queens, New York.

Philip Nozuka

Philip Nozuka was born in Queens, New York City, to a Japanese father, Hiromitsu, and an American mother, Holly Sedgwick.

Port Jefferson, New York

Suwassett was renamed in 1682 to "Drowned Meadow" after being settled by an Irish shoemaker from Queens named John Roe.

Queens County

Queens is the name of a county in New York, United States, which is coterminous with the borough of Queens in New York City.

Queens Teens Voices

Queens Teens Voices is a local quarterly newspaper geared toward the youth in New York City and particularly in south-eastern Queens.

Ralph Mosca

Ralph "Ralphie Bones" Mosca, (pronounced "MOSS-kah") also known as Funzie, was a Queens/Bronx-based Gambino crime family caporegime.

Rickettsialpox

The initial outbreak of the disease took place in the Regency Park complex which had 69 apartment units organized in three groups each three stories in height, located in Kew Gardens, in the New York City borough of Queens.

Rina Piccolo

She lives in Queens with her husband, Brendan Burford, and their canary, Olive.

Rockwood Park

Rockwood Park, Queens, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Rose Pizzo

They them moved to Corona and eventually settled in East Elmhurst.

Rosemarie DeWitt

DeWitt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Rosemarie Braddock and Kenny DeWitt.

Salvatore Vitale

Salvatore Vitale was born on September 22, 1947 in Maspeth, Queens in New York City.

Samuel S. Koenig

He died at his home at 107 West 86th Street in Manhattan, and was buried at the Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens.

Sean Ringgold

Sean Ringgold (born November 3, 1977) is an American actor and former bodyguard from Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York.

Simon J. Hall

From 1997 until 2001 Hall was the director of the Department of Urology at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

Singing Melody

Based on the success of the single and concert, Melody signed with Parish Records and released his first LP, titled Original, in 1992, which was distributed by the Queens-based record label VP Records.

Specialized High Schools Admissions Test

In recent years, students who reside in Manhattan take it at Stuyvesant High School, in the Bronx at Bronx High School of Science, in Brooklyn at Brooklyn Technical High School, in Queens at Long Island City High School or John Adams High School, and in Staten Island at Staten Island Technical High School.

Spiratone

Mail orders were filled from their larger warehouse store on Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens.

St Bride's Church, Glasgow

His recent work had included St Salvador’s Church in Dundee, the Chapel at Queens' College, Cambridge, and St. Mary's Church in Eccleston, Cheshire, which bears a strong resemblance to St. Bride's.

St. John's Red Storm men's basketball

The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents the St. John's University in Queens, New York.

Stanley G. Cohen

Cohen has taught music at the James Madison, Francis Lewis, and John Bowne High Schools in Queens, he was instrumental in establishing music programs at the latter two schools.

Stephen F. Burkard

On January 23, 1935, he was arrested at his home in Woodside, Queens, on a bench warrant for first degree grand larceny.

Stephen Gomersall

Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Queens' College, Cambridge.

Stephen Kinnock

After attending Drayton Manor High School, and having achieved a degree in Modern Languages from Queens' College, University of Cambridge and an MA from the College of Europe in 1993, Stephen Kinnock worked as a research assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels before becoming a British Council Development and Training Services executive based in Brussels from 1997.

Stephen Phillips

He was educated at Stratford and Peterborough Grammar Schools, and considered entering Queens' College, Cambridge on a minor scholarship to study classics; but he instead went to a London crammer to prepare for the civil service.

The Sexless Innkeeper

He elaborates with a poem set in a Dickensian version of Queens, where he was caught in a blizzard, walked a few blocks to an ugly woman's apartment, and feigned sleep to avoid sex.

The Son of No One

Filming took place from February 2010 to April in Astoria, Queens, NY, with several scenes shot in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City.

Tim Latham

Latham was born in Flushing, Queens, New York and was raised in and around the area until leaving to attend Boston's Berklee College of Music from where he graduated in the summer of 1989.

Tony Consiglio

Consiglio was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens, where he spent the first thirty-one years of his life.

Veronica Lueken

Veronica Lueken (pronounced LEW-ken; July 12, 1923 – August 3, 1995) was a Roman Catholic housewife from Bayside, New York, who, between 1970 until her death in 1995, reported experiencing apparitions of the Virgin Mary and numerous Catholic saints.

Vincent Burnelli

With his friend, John Carisi, he designed his first airplane in 1915, at Maspeth, Queens, New York.

Wang Changyuan

Wang lives in Rego Park, Queens, New York and teaches in Manhattan, Queens, and in nearby New Jersey.


Avondale, Maryland

In the 1930s, development spread west from Hyattsville, Mount Rainier, and Brentwood, and subdivisions such as Queens Chapel Manor, Castle Manor, Avondale, and Green Meadows appeared.

Canadian Museum of Nature

The newly renovated museum re-opened again on 22 May 2010, and the lantern structure was christened the "Queens' Lantern" in honour of both Elizabeth II, who visited the building on her 2010 royal tour, and Queen Victoria.

Candy Samples

In 1979, she performed with John Holmes, Johnny Keyes, Serena, Uschi Digard, Kitten Natividad, and Kelly Stewart in the pornographic film John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens from Zane Entertainment Group.

Charaideo

The tombs (Maidams) of Ahom kings and queens at Charaideo hillocks are comparable to the Pyramids of Egypt and are objects of wonder revealing the excellent architecture and skill of the sculptors and masons of Assam of the medieval days.

Cristina García

They settled in New York City where she was raised in Queens, Brooklyn Heights, and Manhattan, in predominantly Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighborhoods.

Gill Action Fund

The campaign, called Fight Back New York, successfully ousted Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), Sen. William Stachowski (D-Buffalo), and Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Queens) replacing each of them with senators who support marriage equality.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

Gordon Chisholm

As Rangers had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers through their Scottish Premier League position, Queens entered the 2008–09 UEFA Cup competition, being drawn in a qualification round against Danish club FC Nordsjælland.

I Sat by the Ocean

On July 31, 2013 Queens of the Stone Age performed the song on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, together with the first single from the album, "My God Is the Sun".

Jenny Greenteeth

In Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Jenny Greenteeth appears in the form of a beautiful young woman, the handmaiden of Maeve, Winter Lady and youngest of the Unseelie Queens of Faerie.

Jhigli

Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, Queens has seen a tremendous amount of newly opened Bangladeshi restaurants mainly by Sylhetis and a great influx of such residents attracted by the real estate boom there.

Jimmy McKinnell, Jr.

As well as managing Queens through their most successful era to date McKinnell Jr had some of Queens' greatest names play under him such as Billy Houliston, Roy Henderson, Dougie Sharpe, Jackie Oakes, Jim Patterson, Jimmy Binning, Bobby Black, Ivor Broadis, George Farm, Jimmy Greenock and Ernie Hannigan.

Jimmy Rutherford

Rutherford's goals per game ratio at Queens does however compare well against other prominent forwards to have played for Queens surpassing such as Dave Halliday, Billy Houliston, Jim Patterson, Neil Martin, Andy Thomson and Stephen Dobbie.

Jocky Dempster

Dempster played alongside team mates Allan Ball, Iain McChesney and Crawford Boyd who were named amongst the best eleven that he played beside at Queens.

Makgona Tsohle Band

However, another phase was in store for Makgona Tsohle: Marks Mankwane, for years the Mahotella Queens' sole producer, regrouped the original Mahotella Queens (Hilda Tloubatla, Nobesuthu Mbadu, Mildred Mangxola, Ethel Mngomezulu, and Juliet Mazamisa) with Mahlathini.

Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand

During his reign, Rocks Road (now part of State Highway 6) was built along the coast, and Queens Gardens were established.

Melbourne tram route 86

A cable tram line operated by the Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company opened on 10 August 1887, operating along Bourke Street, Gertrude Street, Smith Street and Queens Parade to the Merri Creek.

It then crosses the Merri Creek, continuing along Queens Parade Clifton Hill, heading south west, turning south into Smith Street passing between Fitzroy and Collingwood.

Palmerston Park

Jocky Dempster later said in an interview that among his reasons for signing for Queens was, "I liked the park at Queens. As you know it’s a good park, a good surface." Crawford Boyd said, "It was a lovely park, it was a treat to play on that park, a lovely playing surface."

Politics of Long Island

In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.

Queanbeyan River

Queens Bridge was opened by Wal Fife MP, Minister for Transport and Highways on the 21 July 1975, according to a plaque on the bridge.

Rebecca Marshall

And again, with Marshall as Poppea and Boutell as Cyara in Nathaniel Lee's The Tragedy of Nero (1674); as Queen Berenice and Clarona in John Crowne's The Destruction of Jerusalem (1677); and as Roxana and Statira in Lee's The Rival Queens (also 1677).

Reena Raggi

Among the trials she presided over was one concerning the Golden Venture, a ship carrying around 300 would-be immigrants from China, which crashed-landed on a sandbar off Queens, New York in June, 1993.

Shenmue II

On the outskirts of Aberdeen is Queens Street, a pleasant area that is lined with brownstone houses, reflecting Hong Kong's British governors.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Additionally, the song appears in a 3-song pack - Along with other Queens of the Stone Age songs "Little Sister" and "3's and 7's" - as downloadable content for the music video game series Rock Band and also appears on the soundtrack of the game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

Sobhuza II

During this period Andy Warhol boosted her renown, and that of Swaziland, by including her portrait along with those of Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms, Beatrix of the Netherlands and Margrethe II of Denmark in his Reigning Queens series.

Sylviane Diouf

She received the 2001 Africana Book Award for Older Readers from the African Studies Association for her book Kings and Queens of West Africa, part of a four-book series (Scholastic, 2000).

Tebworth

Colin Edwynn, actor who has appeared in Coronation Street, and Heartbeat, currently lives in and operates "The Queens Head" pub

Telford College of Arts and Technology

In 2008 the college celebrated the Queens Anniversary Award with a visit to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Cloud, Auckland

An evaluation report by Nielsen for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise said showcases at the Cloud on Queens Wharf changed international visitors' impressions of the country, convincing them that New Zealand could be innovative.

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum

The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Museum is a military museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The School for Scandal

John Gielgud played Charles Surface in a legendary season at the Queens Theatre in 1937 and repeated the role under his own direction in a 1963 Broadway production.

Tickling Leo

Tickling Leo screened at the Stony Brook Film Festival on July 25, 2009 and then opened in Manhattan, Queens and on Long Island Theaters on September 4, 2009 with a simultaneous DVD release.