{"id":1416,"date":"2011-09-08T00:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-09-08T00:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:06:54","slug":"five-boros-queens-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/five-boros-queens-1953-1416.html","title":{"rendered":"Five Boros: Queens (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Queens,<\/strong> <em>(p. 1044)<\/em><br \/>\nborough (land area 108 sq. mi.; pop. 1,550,849) of New York city, SE N.Y., W end of Long Isl. adjoining Brooklyn borough. Separated from Manhattan and the Bronx by East R. (mainly bridges, e.g. Queensboro Bridge, built 1909, which stimulated borough&#8217;s greatest growth; and tunnel connections); on S is Jamaica Bay, separated from the Atlantic by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/16\/fashion\/summer-in-the-rockaways.html?pagewanted=all\">Rockaway<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notfortourists.com\/ViewRadar.aspx?city=NY&#038;radarID=27473\">peninsula<\/a> (c. 12 mi. long; resorts and commuters&#8216; communities). First settled by Dutch 1635; old Queens co. estab. 1683; divided 1898 into Queens and Nassau counties, when Queens also became a New York city borough (largest in area). Mainly residential as in communities of Flushing, with Flushing Meadows park (site of New York World&#8217;s Fair in 1939-40, later site of General Assembly meetings of the UN) and Queens Col. (see New York, College of the City of); and Forrest Hills (has West Side Tennis Club where national and international matches are held). Heavily industrialized in area of Long Island City (shipping facilities on East R.; rail yards; consumer commodities); also at <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/realestate\/articles\/neighborhoods\/astorialic.htm\">Astoria<\/a> and Jamaica (important railroad transfer point, with extensive business and residential sections). Has two municipal airports, both administered by Port of New York Authority &#8211; LaGuardia (558 acres; opened 1939) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panynj.gov\/airports\/jfk-history.html\">New York Internatl. Airport <\/a>(4,900 acres; opened 1948; sometimes called Idlewild). Here are Jamaica and Aqueduct race tracks.<\/p>\n<p><em>ex:<br \/>\nThe Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia (in 2 volumes),<br \/>\nThe Viking Press \/ Columbia University Press: New York 1953<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens, (p. 1044) borough (land area 108 sq. mi.; pop. 1,550,849) of New York city, SE N.Y., W end of Long Isl. adjoining Brooklyn borough. Separated from Manhattan and the Bronx by East R. (mainly bridges, e.g. Queensboro Bridge, built 1909, which stimulated borough&#8217;s greatest growth; and tunnel connections); on S is Jamaica Bay, separated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,37],"tags":[3,35,17,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quisquilia.net\/nova_blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}