Welcome to Queens
With a land coverage of over 100 square miles, Queens is NYC’s largest borough. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, and believed to be home to the most languages spoken of any urban area in the world.
The majority of the borough was farmland until the late 19th century, when the development of its industrial waterfront propelled the borough into urbanization. Much of Queens as we know it today was rapidly developed only close to a century ago, with the construction of the nation’s first planned garden apartment communities in Jackson Heights, which established ground-breaking tenets of housing and urban planning practices.
Queens has hosted two World’s Fairs (1939 & 1964) in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The borough is home to two of the United States’ busiest airports, John F. Kennedy Airport and Laguardia Airport, as well as NYC’s first municipal airport, Floyd Bennett Field, which advanced aviation on a global scale with 26 around-the-world or transatlantic flights during the 1930s. The architecture of the borough spans four centuries of development, and includes everything from the skyscrapers of Long Island City to the wood frame bungalows of Rockaway Beach.
Recent HDC Articles about Queens
STATUS
Designated Individual Landmark
Queens Neighborhoods
- Addisleigh Park
- Arverne
- Astoria
- Bayside
- Bellerose
- Cambria Heights
- College Point
- Corona
- Ditmars Steinway
- Douglaston
- East Elmhurst
- Elmhurst
- Far Rockaway
- Flushing
- Forest Hills
- Fort Totten
- Fresh Meadows
- Hunter's Point
- Jackson Heights
- Jamaica
- Kew Gardens
- Long Island City
- Rego Park
- Richmond Hill
- Ridgewood
- Sunnyside
- Whitestone
- Woodhaven
- Woodside
Queens Landmarks
- 35-34 Bell Boulevard, Queens
- 53rd (now 101st) Precinct Police Station
- Addisleigh Park Historic District
- Adrian and Ann Wyckoff Onderdonk House
- Allen-Beville House (Benjamin P. Allen House)
- Arthur Hammerstein House
- Astoria Park Pool and Play Center
- Bank of the Manhattan Company building, Long Island City Clocktower
- Barkin, Levin & Company Office Pavilion
- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878 (Elks Lodge)
- Bowne House
- Bowne Street Community Church
- Brinckerhoff Cemetery
- Cambria Heights 222nd Street Historic District
- Cambria Heights – 227th Street Historic District
- Central Ridgewood Historic District
- Congregation Derech Emunoh Synagogue
- Congregation Tifereth Israel
- Cornelius Van Wyck House
- Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse
- Daniel and Abbie B. Eldridge House
- Douglaston Hill Historic District
- Douglaston Historic District
- Edward E. Sanford House
- Fire Engine Company 289, Ladder Company 138
- Fire Engine Company No 258
- Firehouse, Engine Companies 264 & 328/ Ladder Company 134
- Firehouse, Engine Company 268
- Firehouse, Engine Company 305
- First Reformed Church of Jamaica
- Fitzgerald/Ginsberg Mansion
- Flushing High School
- Flushing Municipal Courthouse / Flushing Town Hall
- Forest Park Carousel
- Fort Totten Battery
- Fort Totten Historic District
- Fort Totten Officers’ Club
- Friends Meeting House
- Grace Episcopal Church and Graveyard
- Grace Episcopal Memorial Church
- Hawthorne Court Apartments
- Herman A. and Malvina Schleicher House
- Hunter’s Point Historic District
- J. Kurtz & Sons Store Building
- Jackson Heights Historic District
- Jamaica Chamber of Commerce and Building
- Jamaica High School
- Jamaica Learning Center
- Jamaica Savings Bank
- Jamaica Savings Bank, Elmhurst Branch
- Jamaica Savings Bank (Former)
- King Manor – Exterior and Interior
- Kingsland Homestead
- La Casina
- Lawrence Family Graveyard
- Lawrence Graveyard
- Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead
- Lewis H. Latimer House
- Loew’s Triboro Theater
- Loew’s Valencia Theatre
- Lydia Ann Bell and William Ahles House
- Marine Air Terminal – Exterior and Interior
- Moore-Jackson Cemetery
- New York Architectural Terra Cotta Works Building
- New York State Supreme Court-Queens County
- Newtown High School
- Old Saint James Espicopal Church (now Old Saint James Parish Hall)
- Paramount Studios Building No.1 (Kaufman Astoria Studios)
- Pepsi-Cola Sign
- Poppenhusen Institute
- Prospect Cemetery
- Public School 48 (now P75Q at P.S. 48, The Robert E. Peary School)
- Public School 66 (Formerly the Brooklyn Hills School, Later the Oxford School, now the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School)
- Queens General Court House
- Queensboro Bridge
- Ralph Bunche House
- Reformed Dutch Church of Newtown and Fellowship Hall
- Remsen Cemetery
- Richard Cornell Graveyard
- Richmond Hill Republican Club
- Ridgewood North Historic District
- Ridgewood Savings Bank, Forest Hill Branch
- Ridgewood South Historic District
- Ridgewood Theatre Building
- RKO Keith’s Flushing Theatre Interior
- Sidewalk Clock 161-11 Jamaica Avenue
- Sidewalk Clock, 30-78 Steinway Street
- Sidewalk Clock, 36-34 Main Street
- Sohmer & Company Piano Factory Building
- St George’s Episcopal Church, Old Parish House and Graveyard
- Steinway House
- Stockholm Street Historic District
- Suffolk Title and Guarantee Company Building
- Sunnyside Gardens Historic District
- The Louis Armstrong House
- Queens Borough Public Library, Poppenhusen Branch
- The Register/Jamaica Arts Center
- The Unisphere
- The Weeping Beech Tree
- Trans World Airlines Flight Center – Exterior and Interior
- Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden