Introduction of Queens New York City

This article features a detailed introduction of Queens New York city.

The city of New York City has been divided into total of five boroughs and Queens borough is one of them. the names of other boroughs are Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Coming back to introduction of Queens borough, it has the largest area among all boroughs of New York and is second largest in population. Geographically the Queens borough introduction is that it is the easternmost borough of all boroughs of New York. Queens borough is coextensive with the Queens County, which happens to be the administrative division of New York state.

Queens is situated on the western part of the Long Island. It is strategically important part of the New York City as two of the three major New York City area airports, the JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport are located here.

Another introduction of Queens NY city can be given as a place for New York Mets baseball team, the US Open tennis tournament, Flushing Meadows Park, Kaufman Astoria Studios, and Silvercup Studios.

As of the data available from the American Community Survey 2005, the 47.6% of total Queens residents is formed by the immigrants and as mentioned earlier it is second most populous borough of New York and the tenth most populous county in the United States.

Queens borough is more suburban when compared to other boroughs of the city taking into account the Manhattan standards. It is also serving as a home to many urban adjacent localities and various central business districts. In its Long Island City, the waterfront across from Manhattans going to be is the site for the tallest skyscraper in New York City outside of Manhattan, and will be the tallest building on geographic Long Island.

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