The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by bangdrum

Yeah, Queens (and to a certain extent Brooklyn) are very much divided into neighborhoods. The Bronx and Manhattan (and Staten Island) have neighborhoods too, but if you're mailing something to an address in Manhattan/Bronx/SI/most of Brooklyn, you'd write, e.g., "Brooklyn, NY 11201." For Queens, you'd write the neighborhood instead - "Forest Hills, NY 11375." IIRC, this is because Queens was sort of pulled together in the 1800s from various towns (Flushing, Jamaica, some others). Brooklyn was as well, but they haven't pushed the address issue.

Here's plenty of information (obviously not all perfect) on neighborhoods in NYC.

Here is a good description of the different view of neighborhoods in Queens.

Very interesting to read. Thanks. So Long Island is a part of Queens, or half of it, anyway?
I find it odd that the first link is broken down by race, and Caucasian isn't a category!