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2 unusual facts about Queens County


Ann-Margaret Carrozza

Prior to her election to the State Assembly, Carrozza served as a court attorney for Civil Court Judge Peter O'Donoghue and as a clinical intern in the Queens County District Attorney's Office.

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.


Cadwallader D. Colden

Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 Springhill, near Flushing, Queens County, New York – February 7, 1834 Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey) was an American politician.

Eugene Armbruster

Armbruster photographed areas in Kings County, New York from approximately 1895-1936, Manhattan from 1920-1925, Nassau County, New York from 1917-1925, Queens County, New York from 1910-1931, Rikers Island in 1931, and Suffolk County, New York from 1910-1934.

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.

Moses M. Weinstein

He was a member from Queens County of the New York State Assembly from 1959 to 1969, was Majority Leader from 1965 to 1968, and as such became Acting Speaker for the remainder of the term upon the resignation of Speaker Anthony J. Travia after the close of the legislative session of that year.

Newlin Mill Complex

Nicholas Newlin, a member of the Religious Society of Friends, an Englishman who lived in the Quaker town of Mountmellick, then in Queens County, Ireland, emigrated to Pennsylvania with his family because of religious persecution.

Townsend Scudder

He was corporation counsel for Queens County from 1893 to 1899, and was elected as a Democrat to the 56th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1899 to March 3, 1901.


see also

Ashfield Gales

The Ashfield Gales consisted of six generations of a Gale family who owned the Ashfield estate in Killabban Parish, Queens County, Ireland (subsequently renamed County Laois) from the mid-17th Century until 1851.

Gagetown

Gagetown, New Brunswick, a historic village and shire town of Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada

KJFK

John F. Kennedy International Airport, an airport in Queens County, New York, United States assigned ICAO code "KJFK"

Maurice E. Connolly

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