Floral Park, Queens
Floral Park | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| County/Borough | Queens |
| ZIP code | |
| Area codes | 718, 347, 929, and 917 |
Floral Park is a middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is adjacent to the Village of Floral Park, which is in Nassau County. It may be distinguished from the latter by the use of the designation "North Floral Park" with a ZIP code of 11004.
Description
The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.[3] Floral Park is a middle-class neighborhood that consists mostly of Cape Cod-style houses. Most of the houses were built after World War II to accommodate returning soldiers. Veterans today make up 11 percent of all residents in Floral Park, versus 6 percent citywide.[4]
Union Turnpike is the border between the neighborhoods, with Glen Oaks to the north. The other boundaries of Floral Park are roughly Little Neck Parkway (252nd Street) to the west, Langdale Street to the east, and a diagonal boundary from Hillside Avenue at 271st Street to Jericho Turnpike at 257th Street to the south. The neighborhood is in close proximity to the Cross Island Parkway and the Grand Central Parkway.[5][6]
Transportation
MTA New York City Transit buses serve Floral Park on the Q43, Q46, Q36 local routes (the latter also has a Little Neck Parkway branch during weekdays) and X68. MTA Bus Company operates the QM5, QM6express buses, to Midtown Manhattan.[5] The neighborhood is also served by Nassau Inter-County Express on the n22, n22L, n22A.[7] The Floral Park station – located in the adjacent, eponymous Nassau County village – is the closest service on the Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch which travels to Jamaica station and to Penn Station and Grand Central Madison in Midtown Manhattan.[6]
Notable people
Notable former and current residents include Robert Mapplethorpe, a photographer, who was born and raised in Floral Park, Queens, where members of his family attended Our Lady of the Snows Catholic School.[8]
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ https://www.zip-codes.com/city/ny-floral-park.asp#zipcodes
- ^ Queens Community Boards, New York City. Accessed September 3, 2007.
- ^ Hughes, C.J. (December 16, 2007). "A Town Center at City's Edge". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Maps". MTA. Retrieved 2026-03-12.
- ^ a b "Long Island Zoning Atlas". Long Island Index Maps. Long Island Index. Retrieved 2024-11-18.
- ^ "Nassau Inter-County Express – Maps and Schedules". nicebus.com. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
- ^ Glueck, Grace. "Fallen Angel", The New York Times, June 25, 1995. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Growing up in a blue-collar precinct of Floral Park and steeped in Catholicism, Mapplethorpe developed -- to his alarm -- an adolescent interest in gay pornographic magazines."
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