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is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, covering the zip codes 11427 (Hollis Hills), 11428 (central Queens Village), and 11429 (Bellaire). The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.
Shopping in the community is located along Braddock, Hillside Avenue, Hempstead Avenue, and Jamaica Avenues, as well as on Springfield Boulevard.
Located just east of Queens Village, in Nassau County, is the famous Belmont Park race track.
Queens Village was founded as Little Plains in the 1640s. Homage to this part of Queens Village history is found on the sign above the Long Island Railroad Station there. From 1824 to 1834, the area was known as Brushville, named after a successful local businessman. In 1834, the railroad arrived and the first station in Queens County was established. Residents voted to change the name of the town from Brushville to Queens. Later, the Long Island Railroad added “village” to its station’s name to avoid confusion with the county of the same name and thus the town became known as Queens Village. Queens Village was thus established in 1856 and became incorporated as part of the City of Greater New York after the consolidation of 1898 and partition of Queens into Queens and Nassau counties.
in 1927, a crime perpetrated by a married Queens woman and her lover. Ruth Snyder persuaded her boyfriend to kill her husband, after having her spouse take out a big insurance policy with a double indemnity clause. The murderers were quickly identified and arrested and Snyder was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in 1928. This incident was the basis for the book and film versions of the film noir classic
. Queens Village was part of an overall housing boom that was spreading east through Queens from New York as people from the city sought the bucolic life afforded by the less-crowded atmosphere of the area. Today, many of those charming and well-maintained Dutch Colonial and Tudor homes built in Queens Village during the 1920s and 1930s currently continue to attract an interestingly diverse population.