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Sunnyside, Queens
Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east, and Maspeth and Newtown Creek to the south. The Sunnyside Yard rail complex separates the neighborhood from Astoria along its northern boundary, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway forms part of its southern edge.
The area developed as a residential bedroom community in the years after the Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909 and the Flushing Line subway reached Queens in 1917. Most of the neighborhood was built up between the early 1920s and the late 1930s. North of Queens Boulevard, the planned community of Sunnyside Gardens was constructed between 1924 and 1928 as one of the first applications of the garden-city model in the United States; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and designated a New York City historic district in 2007. Sunnyside is served by the 7 train subway and is along the route of the annual St. Pat's for All parade.
Sunnyside is located in Queens Community District 2, and its ZIP codes are 11101, 11104, and 11377. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 108th Precinct. Politically, Sunnyside is represented by the New York City Council's 26th District.
The neighborhood is located in western Queens. It is bounded by the Long Island Rail Road Main Line and Sunnyside Yard to the north, by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and Newtown Creek to the south, by 39th Street to the West, and to the east by 48th Street south of Queens Boulevard and 52nd Street north of Queens Boulevard. Sources differ on the neighborhood's eastern and western extent; The Encyclopedia of New York City gives Van Dam Street as the western boundary and Calvary Cemetery and 51st Street as the eastern boundary. The Department of City Planning's 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA) for Sunnyside occupies approximately 1,095 acres (443 ha).
Queens Boulevard runs through the middle of Sunnyside on a southwest-to-northeast diagonal and divides the neighborhood into two distinct residential areas. North of Queens Boulevard lies the Sunnyside Gardens historic district, a low-density planned community of brick rowhouses and small apartment buildings constructed between 1924 and 1928. South of Queens Boulevard includes prewar apartment buildings as well some houses, and residences south of Queens Boulevard tend to be larger and less expensive than residences north of it. Queens Boulevard also marks the boundary between New York City Community School Districts 30 and 24.
Sunnyside Yard, a 192-acre (78 ha) rail yard built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in 1910, occupies the northern edge of the neighborhood and is now owned by Amtrak and shared with NJ Transit Rail Operations. The yard's deck has been the subject of repeated proposals for housing development above the active rails. Calvary Cemetery is located south of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and abuts the southern and eastern edge of the neighborhood.
The principal commercial corridors are Queens Boulevard, Greenpoint Avenue between 39th and 49th Streets, and Skillman Avenue and 43rd Avenue.
The area was farmed in colonial times by the Bragaw family, French Huguenot settlers who acquired land at Dutch Kills in 1690. During the Revolution, British forces occupied the Sunnyside area from 1776 to 1783, billeting troops in the colonial farmhouses along old Middleburgh Avenue (now 39th Avenue) to control the strategic "Narrow Passage" at the junction of present-day Northern Boulevard, Woodside Avenue, and Newtown Avenue. According to the local historian Vincent F. Seyfried, Richard Bragaw built a gambrel-roofed house "in the English style atop Sunnyside Hill" in 1790, on the line of present-day 32nd Place between Northern Boulevard and Skillman Avenue; the house was demolished in July 1903 after the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired the property as part of the land assembly for the Sunnyside Yards. A 1925 county history and a 2016 railroad history of Sunnyside Yard trace the area's name to "Sunnyside Hill," the Bragaw family estate established with that 1690 purchase and consolidated under Brocard's son Isaac in 1713. The railroad's acquisitions and demolitions continued through 1905, after which it undertook a major reshaping of local topography: between 1907 and 1908 it leveled an approximately 200-acre hill at 34th and 35th Streets and used the earth to fill some 250 acres of tidal marsh at the headwaters of Dutch Kills, and the Sunnyside Yards opened to rail traffic in November 1910. The Encyclopedia of New York City alternatively traces the modern neighborhood's name to a roadhouse built on Jackson Avenue in the 1850s and 1860s for visitors to the Fashion Race Course in Corona. South of Jackson Avenue, the Fitting, Gosman, Heiser, Lowery, and Van Buren families owned farms that were subdivided in the 1880s and 1890s, and a small hamlet built between Northern and Queens Boulevards came to be known as Sunnyside. The area was incorporated into Long Island City when that city was chartered on May 4, 1870, and into the City of Greater New York when Long Island City was consolidated into Greater New York on January 1, 1898.
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Sunnyside, Queens
Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east, and Maspeth and Newtown Creek to the south. The Sunnyside Yard rail complex separates the neighborhood from Astoria along its northern boundary, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway forms part of its southern edge.
The area developed as a residential bedroom community in the years after the Queensboro Bridge opened in 1909 and the Flushing Line subway reached Queens in 1917. Most of the neighborhood was built up between the early 1920s and the late 1930s. North of Queens Boulevard, the planned community of Sunnyside Gardens was constructed between 1924 and 1928 as one of the first applications of the garden-city model in the United States; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and designated a New York City historic district in 2007. Sunnyside is served by the 7 train subway and is along the route of the annual St. Pat's for All parade.
Sunnyside is located in Queens Community District 2, and its ZIP codes are 11101, 11104, and 11377. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 108th Precinct. Politically, Sunnyside is represented by the New York City Council's 26th District.
The neighborhood is located in western Queens. It is bounded by the Long Island Rail Road Main Line and Sunnyside Yard to the north, by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and Newtown Creek to the south, by 39th Street to the West, and to the east by 48th Street south of Queens Boulevard and 52nd Street north of Queens Boulevard. Sources differ on the neighborhood's eastern and western extent; The Encyclopedia of New York City gives Van Dam Street as the western boundary and Calvary Cemetery and 51st Street as the eastern boundary. The Department of City Planning's 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Area (NTA) for Sunnyside occupies approximately 1,095 acres (443 ha).
Queens Boulevard runs through the middle of Sunnyside on a southwest-to-northeast diagonal and divides the neighborhood into two distinct residential areas. North of Queens Boulevard lies the Sunnyside Gardens historic district, a low-density planned community of brick rowhouses and small apartment buildings constructed between 1924 and 1928. South of Queens Boulevard includes prewar apartment buildings as well some houses, and residences south of Queens Boulevard tend to be larger and less expensive than residences north of it. Queens Boulevard also marks the boundary between New York City Community School Districts 30 and 24.
Sunnyside Yard, a 192-acre (78 ha) rail yard built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in 1910, occupies the northern edge of the neighborhood and is now owned by Amtrak and shared with NJ Transit Rail Operations. The yard's deck has been the subject of repeated proposals for housing development above the active rails. Calvary Cemetery is located south of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and abuts the southern and eastern edge of the neighborhood.
The principal commercial corridors are Queens Boulevard, Greenpoint Avenue between 39th and 49th Streets, and Skillman Avenue and 43rd Avenue.
The area was farmed in colonial times by the Bragaw family, French Huguenot settlers who acquired land at Dutch Kills in 1690. During the Revolution, British forces occupied the Sunnyside area from 1776 to 1783, billeting troops in the colonial farmhouses along old Middleburgh Avenue (now 39th Avenue) to control the strategic "Narrow Passage" at the junction of present-day Northern Boulevard, Woodside Avenue, and Newtown Avenue. According to the local historian Vincent F. Seyfried, Richard Bragaw built a gambrel-roofed house "in the English style atop Sunnyside Hill" in 1790, on the line of present-day 32nd Place between Northern Boulevard and Skillman Avenue; the house was demolished in July 1903 after the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired the property as part of the land assembly for the Sunnyside Yards. A 1925 county history and a 2016 railroad history of Sunnyside Yard trace the area's name to "Sunnyside Hill," the Bragaw family estate established with that 1690 purchase and consolidated under Brocard's son Isaac in 1713. The railroad's acquisitions and demolitions continued through 1905, after which it undertook a major reshaping of local topography: between 1907 and 1908 it leveled an approximately 200-acre hill at 34th and 35th Streets and used the earth to fill some 250 acres of tidal marsh at the headwaters of Dutch Kills, and the Sunnyside Yards opened to rail traffic in November 1910. The Encyclopedia of New York City alternatively traces the modern neighborhood's name to a roadhouse built on Jackson Avenue in the 1850s and 1860s for visitors to the Fashion Race Course in Corona. South of Jackson Avenue, the Fitting, Gosman, Heiser, Lowery, and Van Buren families owned farms that were subdivided in the 1880s and 1890s, and a small hamlet built between Northern and Queens Boulevards came to be known as Sunnyside. The area was incorporated into Long Island City when that city was chartered on May 4, 1870, and into the City of Greater New York when Long Island City was consolidated into Greater New York on January 1, 1898.
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