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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2" title="جامائیکا، کوئینز – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جامائیکا، کوئینز" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(lungsod_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_New_York)" title="Jamaica (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, New York) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Jamaica (lungsod sa Tinipong Bansa, New York)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(New_York_City)" title="Jamaica (New York City) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Jamaica (New York City)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2" title="جامائیکا، کوئینز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جامائیکا، کوئینز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%90%EB%A9%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%B4_(%ED%80%B8%EC%8A%A4)" title="자메이카 (퀸스) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="자메이카 (퀸스)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94_(%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95_%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A7)" title="ג'מייקה (ניו יורק) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'מייקה (ניו יורק)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AB%E5%9C%B0%E5%8C%BA" title="ジャマイカ地区 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ジャマイカ地区" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(New_York)" title="Jamaica (New York) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Jamaica (New York)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_(Queens)" title="Jamaica (Queens) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Jamaica (Queens)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B0_(%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81)" title="Джамейка (Куинс) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Джамейка (Куинс)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica,_Queens" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg/300px-Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg/450px-Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg/600px-Jamaica_Av_Sutphin_Blvd_jeh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3603" data-file-height="2403" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Jamaica Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="300" data-height="200" data-zoom="12" data-overlays="["_8d6c9f9030dc87b7b577de95cdbdd8ed5a1055ab"]"><img 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Queens">Community District</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Queens_Community_Board_12" title="Queens Community Board 12">Queens 12</a><sup id="cite_ref-NYCPlanning_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYCPlanning-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Queens" title="Demographics of Queens">Languages</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">59.0% English</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">25.4% Spanish</li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">15.6% <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States" title="Languages of the United States">Other</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2.670 sq mi (6.92 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 2010">2010</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-PLP5_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLP5-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div 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It popular for a large commercial and retail area,though part of the neighborhood is also residential. Jamaica is bordered by <a href="/wiki/Hollis,_Queens" title="Hollis, Queens">Hollis</a>,<a href="/wiki/St.Albans" class="mw-redirect" title="St.Albans">St.Albans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cambria_Heights" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambria Heights">Cambria Heights</a> to the East. <a href="/wiki/South_Jamaica" class="mw-redirect" title="South Jamaica">South Jamaica</a>,<a href="/wiki/Rochdale_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochdale Village">Rochdale Village</a> (SouthSide),<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_F.Kennedy_International_Airport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John F.Kennedy International Airport (page does not exist)">John F.Kennedy International Airport</a>/(<a href="/wiki/JFK" class="mw-redirect" title="JFK">JFK</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Springfield_Gardens" class="mw-redirect" title="Springfield Gardens">Springfield Gardens</a> to the South.<a href="/wiki/Laurelton,_Queens" title="Laurelton, Queens">Laurelton</a>,and <a href="/wiki/Rosedale,_Queens" title="Rosedale, Queens">Rosedale</a>,to the southeast;<a href="/w/index.php?title=Richmond_Hill,Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richmond Hill,Queens (page does not exist)">Richmond Hill</a>,<a href="/w/index.php?title=South_Ozone_Park,Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="South Ozone Park,Queens (page does not exist)">South Ozone Park</a>,and<a href="/wiki/Aqueduct_Racetrack" title="Aqueduct Racetrack">Aqueduct Racetrack</a> to the west;and Southwest. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Briarwood,Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Briarwood,Queens (page does not exist)">Briarwood</a> to the northwest; and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kew_Gardens_Hills,Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kew Gardens Hills,Queens (page does not exist)">Kew Gardens Hills</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica_Hills,Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jamaica Hills,Queens (page does not exist)">Jamaica Hills</a>,and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens" title="Jamaica Estates, Queens">Jamaica Estates</a> to the north. </p><p>Jamaicas original designation was for an area greater than the current neighborhoods, was settled under <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a> rule in 1656. It was originally called <i><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Rustdorp</i></span></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ross_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ross-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under <a href="/wiki/British_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="British colonization of the Americas">English rule</a>, Jamaica became the center of the "<a href="/wiki/Political_subdivisions_of_New_York_State#Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Political subdivisions of New York State">Town</a> of Jamaica"; the name is of <a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Lenape</a> origin and wholly unrelated to <a href="/wiki/Jamaica#Etymology" title="Jamaica">that of the country</a>. It was the first <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> of Queens County, holding that title from 1683 to 1788, and was the first incorporated village on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>. When Queens was incorporated into the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Greater_New_York" title="City of Greater New York">City of Greater New York</a> in 1898, both the town of Jamaica and the village of Jamaica were dissolved, but the neighborhood of Jamaica regained its role as county seat. </p><p>Jamaica is the location of several government buildings such as <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Civil_Court" title="New York City Civil Court">Queens Civil Court</a>, the civil branch of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Supreme_Court" title="New York Supreme Court">Queens County Supreme Court</a>, the Queens County Family Court and the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Patrick_Addabbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Patrick Addabbo">Joseph P. Addabbo</a> Federal Building, home to the <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Administration" title="Social Security Administration">Social Security Administration</a>'s Northeastern Program Service Center.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The U.S. <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a>'s Northeast Regional Laboratory as well as the New York District Office are located in Jamaica. Jamaica Center, the area around <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Avenue" title="Jamaica Avenue">Jamaica Avenue</a>, is a major commercial center. The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Racing_Association" title="New York Racing Association">New York Racing Association</a>, based at <a href="/wiki/Aqueduct_Racetrack" title="Aqueduct Racetrack">Aqueduct Racetrack</a> in South Ozone Park, lists its official address as Jamaica (central Jamaica once housed the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Race_Course" title="Jamaica Race Course">Jamaica Racetrack</a>, now the massive Rochdale Village housing development). <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a> and the hotels nearby are also located in Jamaica. The neighborhood is located in <a href="/wiki/Queens_Community_Board_12" title="Queens Community Board 12">Queens Community District 12</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYCPlanning_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYCPlanning-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is patrolled by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a>'s 103rd and 113th Precincts. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The neighborhood was named <i>Yameco</i>, a corruption of the word <i>yamecah</i>, meaning "<a href="/wiki/Beaver" title="Beaver">beaver</a>", in <a href="/wiki/Delaware_languages" title="Delaware languages">the language</a> spoken by the <a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Lenape</a>, the Native Americans who lived in the area at the time of first European contact.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-game_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-game-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GJDC_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GJDC-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant" title="Voiced palatal approximant">semivowel "y"</a> sound of English is spelled with a "j" in Dutch, the language of the first people to write about the area; the English retained the Dutch spelling but replaced the semivowel sound with the <a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiced postalveolar affricate">affricate [dʒ] sound</a> that the letter "j" usually represents in English.<sup id="cite_ref-MajorMarkPark_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MajorMarkPark-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name of the island <a href="/wiki/Jamaica" title="Jamaica">Jamaica</a> is unrelated, coming from the <a href="/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno" title="Taíno">Taíno</a> term <i>Xaymaca</i>, meaning "land of wood and water" or "land of springs".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Precolonial_and_colonial_periods">Precolonial and colonial periods</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Precolonial and colonial periods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Avenue" title="Jamaica Avenue">Jamaica Avenue</a> was an ancient trail for tribes from as far away as the <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Lakes" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a>, coming to trade skins and furs for <a href="/wiki/Wampum" title="Wampum">wampum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "<a href="/wiki/Beaver_Pond_(Jamaica)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beaver Pond (Jamaica)">Beaver Pond</a>" (now filled in; what is now Tuckerton Street north of Liberty Avenue runs through the site of the old pond, and Beaver Road was named for its western edge). Dutch <a href="/wiki/Director-General_of_New_Netherland" class="mw-redirect" title="Director-General of New Netherland">Director-General</a> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant" title="Peter Stuyvesant">Peter Stuyvesant</a> dubbed the area <i><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Rustdorp</i></span></i> ("rest-town") in granting the 1656 <a href="/wiki/Land_patent" title="Land patent">land patent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GJDC_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GJDC-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among its founding settlers was <a href="/wiki/Robert_Coe_(colonist)" title="Robert Coe (colonist)">Robert Coe</a>, who was appointed as the first <a href="/wiki/Magistrate" title="Magistrate">magistrate</a> by the Dutch government, serving until the English took over in 1664, making it a part of the county of <a href="/wiki/York_Shire_(Province_of_New_York)" title="York Shire (Province of New York)">Yorkshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MajorMarkPark_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MajorMarkPark-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1683, when <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a> divided the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_New_York" title="Province of New York">colony of New York</a> into counties, Jamaica became the county seat of Queens County, one of the original counties of New York.<sup id="cite_ref-MajorMarkPark_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MajorMarkPark-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Colonial Jamaica had a band of 56 <a href="/wiki/Minutemen" title="Minutemen">minutemen</a> who played an active part in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island" title="Battle of Long Island">Battle of Long Island</a>, the outcome of which led to the occupation of the New York City area by <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British troops</a> during most of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. <a href="/wiki/Rufus_King" title="Rufus King">Rufus King</a>, a signer of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a>, relocated to Jamaica in 1805. He added to a modest 18th-century farmhouse, creating the manor which stands on the site today; <a href="/wiki/King_Manor" title="King Manor">King Manor</a> was restored at the turn of the 21st century to its former glory, and houses King Manor Museum.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_18th_and_19th_centuries">Late 18th and 19th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Late 18th and 19th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 1776, Jamaica had become a trading post for farmers and their produce. For more than a century, their horse-drawn carts plodded along Jamaica Avenue, then called King's Highway. The Jamaica Post Office opened September 25, 1794, and was the only post office in the present-day boroughs of <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a> or <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> before 1803.<sup id="cite_ref-NCPO_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCPO-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Union Hall Academy for boys and Union Hall Seminary for girls were chartered in 1787.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The academy eventually attracted students from all over the United States and the <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The public school system was started in 1813 with funds of $125. Jamaica Village, the first village on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>, was incorporated in 1814 with its boundaries being from the present-day <a href="/wiki/Van_Wyck_Expressway" class="mw-redirect" title="Van Wyck Expressway">Van Wyck Expressway</a> (on the west) and Jamaica Avenue (on the north, later <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Route_25B" title="New York State Route 25B">Hillside Avenue</a>) to Farmers Boulevard (on the east) and Linden Boulevard (on the south) in what is now <a href="/wiki/St._Albans,_Queens" title="St. Albans, Queens">St. Albans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cqha_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cqha-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1834, the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_and_Jamaica_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad">Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad</a> company had completed a line to Jamaica. </p><p>In 1850, the former Kings Highway (now Jamaica Avenue) became the Brooklyn and Jamaica <a href="/wiki/Plank_road" title="Plank road">Plank Road</a>, complete with toll gate. In 1866, tracks were laid for a <a href="/wiki/Horsecar" title="Horsecar">horsecar</a> line, and 20 years later it was electrified, the first in the state. On January 1, 1898, Queens became part of the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Greater_New_York" title="City of Greater New York">City of New York</a>, and Jamaica became the <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a>. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 255px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:History_of_Queens_County,_New_York,_with_illustrations,_portraits,_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_(1882)_(14769474615).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Van Siclen farm in 1882"><img alt="Van Siclen farm in 1882" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg/220px-History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg/330px-History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg/440px-History_of_Queens_County%2C_New_York%2C_with_illustrations%2C_portraits%2C_and_sketches_of_prominent_families_and_individuals_%281882%29_%2814769474615%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3536" data-file-height="2562" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Van Siclen farm in 1882</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 255px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Bradford_Brainerd_(American,_1845-1887)._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station,_Jamaica,_ca._1872-1887..jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum"><img alt="George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg/220px-George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg/330px-George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg/440px-George_Bradford_Brainerd_%28American%2C_1845-1887%29._Long_Island_Rail_Road_Station%2C_Jamaica%2C_ca._1872-1887..jpg 2x" data-file-width="1410" data-file-height="1128" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). <i>Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887</i>. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum" title="Brooklyn Museum">Brooklyn Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 255px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Historical marker at Chase Bank"><img alt="Historical marker at Chase Bank" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg/220px-Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg/330px-Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg/440px-Sidewalk_clock_historical_marker_20180805_095859.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Historical marker at Chase Bank</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 255px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The landmarked sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue"><img alt="The landmarked sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg/220px-Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg/330px-Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg/440px-Sidewalk_clock_l20180805_095632.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The landmarked <a href="/wiki/Sidewalk_clock_on_Jamaica_Avenue" title="Sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue">sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 255px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-(1896)-F093106.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1896) is dedicated to Union soldiers and sailors who died during the American Civil War. It is marked 1861–1865. It is located at Major Mark Park on Hillside Avenue (NY 25) at 176th Street.[22]"><img alt="The Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1896) is dedicated to Union soldiers and sailors who died during the American Civil War. It is marked 1861–1865. It is located at Major Mark Park on Hillside Avenue (NY 25) at 176th Street.[22]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg/220px-Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg/330px-Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg/440px-Soldiers-and-Sailors-Monument-%281896%29-F093106.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3020" data-file-height="2263" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1896) is dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> soldiers and sailors who died during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. It is marked 1861–1865. It is located at Major Mark Park on Hillside Avenue (<a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Route_25" title="New York State Route 25">NY 25</a>) at 176th Street.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> </ul> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:608px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of Jamaica railroad stations in 1873"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg/600px-Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg/900px-Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg/1200px-Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3004" data-file-height="948" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Jamaica_stations_1873.jpg" title="File:Jamaica stations 1873.jpg"> </a></div>Map of Jamaica railroad stations in 1873</div></div></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:608px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="1873 Beers map of Jamaica Village, Queens, New York City"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg/600px-1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg" decoding="async" width="600" height="453" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg/900px-1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg/1200px-1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village%2C_Queens%2C_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5000" data-file-height="3771" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1873_Beers_Map_of_Jamaica_Village,_Queens,_New_York_City_-_Geographicus_-_JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg" title="File:1873 Beers Map of Jamaica Village, Queens, New York City - Geographicus - JamaicaVillage-beers-1873.jpg"> </a></div>1873 Beers map of Jamaica Village, Queens, New York City</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_and_21st_centuries">20th and 21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th and 21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg/170px-Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg/255px-Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg/340px-Loews_Valencia_Jamaica_Av_jeh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2502" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Loew%27s_Valencia_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Loew's Valencia Theatre">Loew's Valencia</a>, a former theater opened in 1929</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica,_Queens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a view of Hillside Ave and 164 st." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/220px-A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/330px-A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/440px-A_view_of_Hillside_and_164_st._in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption> 164th Street at Hillside Avenue, Jamaica, Queens</figcaption></figure> <p>The present <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_station" title="Jamaica station">Jamaica station</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">Long Island Rail Road</a> was completed in 1913, and the <a href="/wiki/BMT_Jamaica_Line" title="BMT Jamaica Line">BMT Jamaica Line</a> arrived in 1918, followed by the <a href="/wiki/IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line" title="IND Queens Boulevard Line">IND Queens Boulevard Line</a> in 1936 and the IND/BMT <a href="/wiki/Archer_Avenue_lines" title="Archer Avenue lines">Archer Avenue lines</a> in 1988, the latter of which replaced the eastern portion of the Jamaica Line that was torn down in 1977–85. The 1920s and 1930s saw the building of the <a href="/wiki/Loew%27s_Valencia_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Loew's Valencia Theatre">Valencia Theatre</a> (now restored by the Tabernacle of Prayer), the "futuristic" Kurtz furniture store, and the Roxanne Building. In the 1970s, it became the headquarters for the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Society_of_North_America" title="Islamic Society of North America">Islamic Society of North America</a>. King Kullen opened in 1930, the first self-service <a href="/wiki/Supermarket" title="Supermarket">supermarket</a> in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The many <a href="/wiki/Foreclosure" title="Foreclosure">foreclosures</a> and the high level of unemployment of the 2000s and early 2010s induced many black people to move from Jamaica to the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">South</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as part of the <a href="/wiki/New_Great_Migration" title="New Great Migration">New Great Migration</a>. On October 23, 2014, the neighborhood was the site of <a href="/wiki/2014_Queens_hatchet_attack" title="2014 Queens hatchet attack">a terrorist hatchet attack</a> on two <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a> officers; the police later killed the attacker.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/First_Reformed_Church_(Queens)" title="First Reformed Church (Queens)">First Reformed Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grace_Episcopal_Church_Complex_(Queens)" title="Grace Episcopal Church Complex (Queens)">Grace Episcopal Church Complex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Chamber_of_Commerce_Building" title="Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building">Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Savings_Bank" title="Jamaica Savings Bank">Jamaica Savings Bank</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_Manor" title="King Manor">King Manor</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._Kurtz_and_Sons_Store_Building" title="J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building">J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building</a>, <a href="/wiki/La_Casina" title="La Casina">La Casina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_Register" class="mw-redirect" title="Office of the Register">Office of the Register</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prospect_Cemetery_(Queens)" title="Prospect Cemetery (Queens)">Prospect Cemetery</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Monica%27s_Church_(Queens)" title="St. Monica's Church (Queens)">St. Monica's Church</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sidewalk_Clock_at_161-11_Jamaica_Avenue,_New_York,_NY" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidewalk Clock at 161-11 Jamaica Avenue, New York, NY">Sidewalk Clock at 161-11 Jamaica Avenue, New York, NY</a>, <a href="/wiki/TWA_Flight_Center" title="TWA Flight Center">Trans World Airlines Flight Center</a>, and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Jamaica,_Queens)" title="United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens)">United States Post Office</a> are listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nris_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nris-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1246091330"><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background:#ccccff;font-size:100%">Part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background:#ccccff;font-size: 130%"><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_New_York_City" title="Race and ethnicity in New York City">Race and ethnicity in New York City</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Ethnicities</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="padding-top:0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="African Americans in New York City">African Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albanians_in_New_York_City" title="Albanians in New York City">Albanians</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#Eastern_Mediterranean" title="Demographics of New York City">Arabs</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangladeshi_Americans#New_York_City" title="Bangladeshi Americans">Bangladeshis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="Belarusian Americans in New York City">Belarusians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Brazil,_Manhattan" title="Little Brazil, Manhattan">Brazilians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_immigration_to_New_York_City" title="Caribbean immigration to New York City">Caribbeans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_people_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese people in New York City">Chinese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuzhounese_Americans#New_York_City" title="Fuzhounese Americans">Fuzhounese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_people_in_New_York_City" title="Taiwanese people in New York City">Taiwanese</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#Colombian" title="Demographics of New York City">Colombians</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cuban_Americans" title="Cuban Americans">Cubans</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominicans_in_New_York_City" title="Dominicans in New York City">Dominicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="Dutch Americans in New York City">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City#Ecuadorian" title="Demographics of New York City">Ecuadorians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area" title="Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area">Filipinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germans_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Germans in New York City">Germans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greeks_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Greeks in New York City">Greeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haitians_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Haitians in New York City">Haitians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanics_and_Latinos_in_New_York_City" title="Hispanics and Latinos in New York City">Hispanics and Latinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indians_in_the_New_York_City_metropolitan_area" title="Indians in the New York City metropolitan area">Indians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="Irish Americans in New York City">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italians_in_New_York_City" title="Italians in New York City">Italians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaicans_in_New_York_City" title="Jamaicans in New York City">Jamaicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_in_New_York_City" title="Japanese in New York City">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jews_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews in New York City">Jews</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Jews_in_New_York_City" title="Black Jews in New York City">Black Jews</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koreans_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Koreans in New York City">Koreans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Lenape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexicans_in_New_York_City" title="Mexicans in New York City">Mexicans</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistani 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href="/wiki/Syrian_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="Syrian Americans in New York City">Syrians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Americans_in_New_York_City" title="Ukrainian Americans in New York City">Ukrainians</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Uzbek_Americans" title="Uzbek Americans">Uzbeks</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_ethnic_enclaves#Vietnamese" title="New York City ethnic enclaves">Vietnamese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Yemen" title="Little Yemen">Yemenis</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Neighborhoods</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="padding-top:0;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bedford%E2%80%93Stuyvesant,_Brooklyn" title="Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn">Bed-Stuy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bensonhurst,_Brooklyn" title="Bensonhurst, Brooklyn">Bensonhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_Park,_Brooklyn" title="Borough Park, Brooklyn">Borough Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Beach" title="Brighton Beach">Brighton Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinatown, Brooklyn">Chinatown, Brooklyn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Flushing" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinatown, Flushing">Chinatown, Flushing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Manhattan" title="Chinatown, Manhattan">Chinatown, Manhattan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crown_Heights,_Brooklyn" title="Crown Heights, Brooklyn">Crown Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indians_in_the_New_York_City_metropolitan_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Indians in the New York City metropolitan region">Curry Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indians_in_the_New_York_City_metropolitan_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Indians in the New York City metropolitan region">Curry Row</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmhurst,_Queens" title="Elmhurst, Queens">Elmhurst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flatbush,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Flatbush, Brooklyn">Flatbush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlem" title="Harlem">Harlem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Heights,_Queens" title="Jackson Heights, Queens">Jackson Heights</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koreatown,_Manhattan" title="Koreatown, Manhattan">Koreatown, Manhattan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koreatown,_Long_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Koreatown, Long Island">Koreatown, Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Petit_Senegal" class="mw-redirect" title="Le Petit Senegal">Le Petit Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Australia,_Manhattan" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Australia, Manhattan">Little Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Brazil,_Manhattan" title="Little Brazil, Manhattan">Little Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Egypt,_Astoria" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Egypt, Astoria">Little Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Fuzhou" title="Little Fuzhou">Little Fuzhou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Germany,_Manhattan" title="Little Germany, Manhattan">Little Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_Queens" title="Richmond Hill, Queens">Little Guyana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Italy,_Manhattan" title="Little Italy, Manhattan">Little Italy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filipinos_in_the_New_York_metropolitan_area" title="Filipinos in the New York metropolitan area">Little Manila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Pakistan" title="Little Pakistan">Little Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Poland,_Brooklyn" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Poland, Brooklyn">Little Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowery" title="Bowery">Little Saigon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Spain">Little Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tompkinsville,_Staten_Island" title="Tompkinsville, Staten Island">Little Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Syria,_Manhattan" title="Little Syria, Manhattan">Little Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Village_(Manhattan)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Village (Manhattan)">Little Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loisaida" class="mw-redirect" title="Loisaida">Loisaida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Harlem" title="East Harlem">Spanish Harlem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunset_Park,_Brooklyn" title="Sunset Park, Brooklyn">Sunset Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirteenth_Avenue_(Brooklyn)" title="Thirteenth Avenue (Brooklyn)">Thirteenth Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_Heights,_Manhattan" title="Washington Heights, Manhattan">Washington Heights</a></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_ethnic_enclaves" title="New York City ethnic enclaves">Ethnic enclaves</a></b></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Ethnic_New_York_City_sidebar" title="Template:Ethnic New York City sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Ethnic_New_York_City_sidebar" title="Template talk:Ethnic New York City sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Ethnic_New_York_City_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Ethnic New York City sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Based on data from the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">2010 United States Census</a>, the population of Jamaica was 53,751 an increase of 1,902 (3.5%) from the 51,849 counted in <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2000 United States Census">2000</a>. Covering an area of 1,084.85 acres (439.02 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 49.5 inhabitants per acre (31,700/sq mi; 12,200/km<sup>2</sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-PLP5_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLP5-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 3.6% (1,949) <a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_White" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic White">Non-Hispanic White</a>, 22.2% (11,946) Black or <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 0.9% (466) <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 24.3% (13,073) <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.1% (66) <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, 5.2% (2,814) from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 4.9% (2,647) from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> residents of any race were 38.7% (20,790) of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-PLP3A_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PLP3A-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The entirety of <a href="/wiki/Queens_Community_Board_12" title="Queens Community Board 12">Community Board 12</a>, which mainly comprises Jamaica but also includes Hollis, had 232,911 inhabitants as of <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Health_and_Mental_Hygiene" title="New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene">NYC Health</a>'s 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 80.5 years.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2, 20">: 2, 20 </span></sup> This is slightly lower than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 53 (PDF p. 84)">: 53 (PDF p. 84) </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 22% are between ages 0 and 17; 27% between 25 and 44; and 27% between 45 and 64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 10% and 14% respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup> </p><p>As of 2017, the median <a href="/wiki/Household_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Household income">household income</a> in Community Board 12 was $61,670.<sup id="cite_ref-CB11PUMA_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CB11PUMA-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, an estimated 20% of Jamaica and Hollis residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in eight residents (12%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 56% in Jamaica and Hollis, higher than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, Jamaica and Hollis are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not <a href="/wiki/Gentrification" title="Gentrification">gentrifying</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 7">: 7 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demographic_distribution">Demographic distribution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Demographic distribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Jamaica,_Queens" title="Special:EditPage/Jamaica, Queens">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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Jamaica is large and has a diverse population, predominantly African Americans, Caribbean/West Indians, Hispanics, and Asians/Asian Indians.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jamaica was not always as diverse as it is today. Throughout the 19th to early 20th centuries, Jamaica was mainly populated with whites as Irish immigrants settled around the places known today as Downtown and Baisley Pond Park. In the 1950s, however, a long period of <a href="/wiki/White_flight" title="White flight">white flight</a> began that lasted through the 1970s and 1980s with mainly middle-income African Americans taking their place. Beginning in 1965 and through the 1970s, more West Indians immigrated to the United States than ever before, most of whom settled in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many Salvadoran, Colombian, and Dominican immigrants moved in. These ethnic groups tended to stay more towards the Jamaica Avenue and South Jamaica areas. Decrease in crime<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attracted many families to Jamaica's safe havens; Hillside Avenue reflects this trend. Along 150th to 161st streets, much of the stores and restaurants typify South American and Caribbean cultures. </p><p>Farther east is the rapidly growing East Indian community. Mainly spurred on by the Jamaica Muslim Center, Bangladeshis have flocked to this area due to easy transit access and the numerous Bangladeshi stores and restaurants lining 167th and 168th Streets. Bangladeshis are the most rapidly growing ethnic group; however, it is also an African-American commercial area. Many Sri Lankans live in the area for similar reasons as the Bangladeshi community, reflected by the numerous food and grocery establishments along Hillside Avenue catering to the community. Significant Filipino and African communities thrive in Jamaica, along with the neighboring Filipino community in <a href="/wiki/Queens_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens Village">Queens Village</a> and the historic, well established African-American community residing in Jamaica. </p><p>From 151st Street to 164th Street, many groceries and restaurants are representative of the West Indies. Mainly of Guyanese and Trinidadian origin, these merchants serve their respective populations in and around the Jamaica Center area. Many East Indian shops are located east from 167th Street to 171st Street. Mainly supported by the ever-growing Bangladeshi population, thousands of South Asians come here to shop for Bangladeshi goods. Some people call the area "Little South Asia" similar to that of <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Heights,_Queens" title="Jackson Heights, Queens">Jackson Heights</a>. Jamaica is another South Asian ethnic enclave in New York City, as South Asian immigration and the city's South Asian population has grown rapidly. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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href="/wiki/File:Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg/194px-Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg" decoding="async" width="194" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg/291px-Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg/388px-Panshii_restaurant_20181010_110406.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Panshi restaurant</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:196px;max-width:196px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:145px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tequilazo_restaurant_20181010_110657.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg/194px-Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg" decoding="async" width="194" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg/291px-Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg/388px-Columbian_restaurant_20181010_110711.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Colombian restaurant</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_2">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg/220px-CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg/330px-CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg/440px-CJ_PLAZA_20181017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a><figcaption>A development under construction in Jamaica</figcaption></figure> <p>Economic development was long neglected. In the 1960s and 1970s, many <a href="/wiki/Big-box_store" title="Big-box store">big box retailers</a> moved to suburban areas where business was more profitable. Departing retailers included brand name stores and movie theaters that once thrived in Jamaica's busiest areas. <a href="/wiki/Macy%27s" title="Macy's">Macy's</a> and the Valencia theater were the last companies to move out in 1969. The 1980s <a href="/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States" title="Crack epidemic in the United States">crack epidemic</a> created even more hardship and crime. Prime real estate spaces were filled by hair salons and <a href="/wiki/Variety_store" title="Variety store">99 cent stores</a>. Furthermore, existing zoning patterns and inadequate infrastructure did not anticipate future development. </p><p>Since then, the decrease of the crime rate has encouraged entrepreneurs who plan to invest in the area. The Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, the local <a href="/wiki/Business_improvement_district" title="Business improvement district">business improvement district</a>, acquired valuable real estate for sale to national chains in order to expand neighborhood commerce. As well they have completed underway proposals by allocating funds and providing loans to potential investors who have already established something in the area. One Jamaica Center is a mixed-use commercial complex that was built in 2002. Many banks have at least one branch along various major streets: Jamaica Avenue, Parsons Boulevard, Merrick Boulevard, and Sutphin Boulevard. In 2006, a $75 million deal between the developers, the Mattone Group and Ceruzzi Enterprises, and Home Depot cleared the way for a new location at 168th Street and Archer Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most prominent piece of development has been the renovation and expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_station" title="Jamaica station">Jamaica station</a> from 2001 to 2006. The station, which served the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">Long Island Rail Road</a>, was expanded with a transfer to the <a href="/wiki/AirTrain_JFK" title="AirTrain JFK">AirTrain JFK</a> to <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further capacity increase included a platform at Jamaica station.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:242px;max-width:242px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:178px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:FirstReformedChurch_(Queens)_20180215.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg/238px-FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg/357px-FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg/476px-FirstReformedChurch_%28Queens%29_20180215.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The former First Reformed Dutch Church, now the Jamaica Performing Arts Center (JPAC)</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:170px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg/238px-SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg/357px-SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg/476px-SocSecJPAC_20181105_115234.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3668" data-file-height="2631" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">A <a href="/wiki/Boro_taxi" title="Boro taxi">boro taxi</a> and an <a href="/wiki/MTA_Regional_Bus_Operations" title="MTA Regional Bus Operations">MTA bus</a> at 153rd Street/Jamaica Avenue</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Efforts have been made to follow the examples of major redevelopment occurring in <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_City" title="Long Island City">Long Island City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flushing,_Queens" title="Flushing, Queens">Flushing</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Brooklyn" title="Downtown Brooklyn">Downtown Brooklyn</a>. In 2005, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_City_Planning" title="New York City Department of City Planning">New York City Department of City Planning</a> drafted a plan that would rezone 368 blocks of Jamaica in order to stimulate development, relieve <a href="/wiki/Traffic_congestion" title="Traffic congestion">traffic congestion</a>, and shift upscale amenities away from low-density residential neighborhoods. The plan includes up-zoning the immediate areas around Jamaica Station to accommodate passengers traveling through the area. To improve infrastructure the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Parks_%26_Recreation" class="mw-redirect" title="New York City Department of Parks & Recreation">New York City Department of Parks & Recreation</a> has agreed to create more greenery and open spaces to allow pedestrians to enjoy the scenery.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, the city has reserved the right to protect the suburban/residential charm of neighboring areas. Several blocks will be down-zoned to keep up with the existing neighborhood character. In 2007 the City Council overwhelmingly approved the plan, providing for structures of up to 28 stories to be built around the main transit hub as well as residential buildings of up to 7 stories to be built on Hillside Avenue.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to real-estate listing service <a href="/wiki/StreetEasy" title="StreetEasy">StreetEasy</a>, Jamaica's real-estate prices are rising the fastest out of all localities in New York City. The community's median home prices rose 39% in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The median sales price for a small row house in 2015 was $330,000,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the median asking rent for a three-bedroom house in 2015 was $1,750.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sutphin Boulevard has been described as "the next tourist hot spot".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jamaica's proximity to the JFK AirTrain has stimulated the development of several hotels.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://165thstreetmall.com/index.php/en/">165th Street Mall Improvement Association</a> is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nycbids.org/bid-directory/">NYC BID Association</a> that focuses on these specific developed stores in Jamaica, Queens. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_businesses">Notable businesses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notable businesses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tleft"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:392px;max-width:392px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:194px;max-width:194px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:144px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg/192px-US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg" decoding="async" width="192" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg/288px-US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg/384px-US_FAA_20181202_162329.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Federal Aviation Administration regional offices</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:194px;max-width:194px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:144px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg/192px-US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg" decoding="async" width="192" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg/288px-US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg/384px-US_Food_and_Drug_Administration_Office_20180930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a> office</div></div></div></div></div><p> The <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> Eastern Region has its offices at Rockaway Boulevard in South Jamaica, near JFK Airport.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several businesses are at the nearby John F. Kennedy International Airport. <a href="/wiki/North_American_Airlines" title="North American Airlines">North American Airlines</a> has its headquarters on the property of JFK.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Cargo_Airlines" title="Nippon Cargo Airlines">Nippon Cargo Airlines</a> maintains its New York City offices there.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg/220px-Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg/330px-Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg/440px-Social_Security_Queens_20181105_113517.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Administration" title="Social Security Administration">Social Security Administration</a> building at 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Northeastern Program Service Center (NEPSC) is located in the Joseph P. Addabbo Federal Building at Parsons Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue. The NEPSC serves approximately 8.6 million retirement, survivor, and disability insurance beneficiaries, whose <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_number" title="Social Security number">Social Security numbers</a> (SSN) begin with 001 through 134, 729, and 805 through 808. The NEPSC also processes disability claims for beneficiaries age 54 and over for the same SSN series. Constructed in 1989, the 932,000-square-foot (86,600 m<sup>2</sup>) federal building is a 12-story masonry and steel office structure that was built for the agency and was given $8.5 million 2017 dollars to consolidate operations to the lower 2 floors and bring other federal leaseholders from other parts of Queens to occupy the upper floors. The funds approved were part of budget cuts proposed during the <a href="/wiki/Obama_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama administration">Obama administration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Police_and_crime">Police and crime</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Police and crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jamaica is patrolled by two precincts of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">NYPD</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 103rd Precinct is located at 168-02 91st Avenue and serves downtown Jamaica and Hollis,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the 113th Precinct is located at 167-02 Baisley Boulevard and serves St. Albans and South Jamaica.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 103rd Precinct ranked 51st safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the 113th Precinct ranked 55th safest.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, with a non-fatal assault rate of 68 per 100,000 people, Jamaica and Hollis's rate of <a href="/wiki/Violent_crime" title="Violent crime">violent crimes</a> per capita is more than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 789 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 8">: 8 </span></sup> </p><p>The 103rd Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 80.6% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 5 murders, 31 rapes, 346 robberies, 408 felony assaults, 152 burglaries, 466 grand larcenies, and 79 grand larcenies auto in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 113th Precinct also has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 86.1% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 5 murders, 28 rapes, 156 robberies, 383 felony assaults, 153 burglaries, 414 grand larcenies, and 138 grand larcenies auto in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fire_safety">Fire safety</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Fire safety"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg/220px-FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg/330px-FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg/440px-FDNY_E-298_L-127_20181010_111858.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a><figcaption>Engine Company 298/Ladder Company 127/Battalion 50</figcaption></figure> <p>Jamaica contains four <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Fire_Department" title="New York City Fire Department">New York City Fire Department</a> (FDNY) fire stations:<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Engine Company 275/Ladder Company 133 – 111-36 Merrick Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Engine Company 298/Ladder Company 127/Battalion 50 – 153-11 Hillside Avenue<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Engine Company 302/Ladder Company 155 – 143-15 Rockaway Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Engine Company 303/Ladder Company 126 – 104-12 Princeton Street<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health">Health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major hospitals in Jamaica include <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Hospital">Jamaica Hospital</a> and <a href="/wiki/Queens_Hospital_Center" title="Queens Hospital Center">Queens Hospital Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, <a href="/wiki/Preterm_birth" title="Preterm birth">preterm births</a> and births to teenage mothers are more common in Jamaica and Hollis than in other places citywide. In Jamaica and Hollis, there were 100 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 21.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 11">: 11 </span></sup> Jamaica and Hollis have a low population of residents who are <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in_the_United_States" title="Health insurance coverage in the United States">uninsured</a>. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 5%, lower than the citywide rate of 12%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 14">: 14 </span></sup> </p><p>The concentration of <a href="/wiki/Particulates" title="Particulates">fine particulate matter</a>, the deadliest type of <a href="/wiki/Air_pollution" title="Air pollution">air pollutant</a>, in Jamaica and Hollis is 0.007 milligrams per cubic metre (7.0<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>−9</sup> oz/cu ft), less than the city average.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 9">: 9 </span></sup> Eight percent of Jamaica and Hollis residents are <a href="/wiki/Smoking" title="Smoking">smokers</a>, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> In Jamaica and Hollis, 30% of residents are <a href="/wiki/Obesity" title="Obesity">obese</a>, 16% are <a href="/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus" class="mw-redirect" title="Diabetes mellitus">diabetic</a>, and 37% have <a href="/wiki/Hypertension" title="Hypertension">high blood pressure</a>—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 16">: 16 </span></sup> In addition, 23% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 12">: 12 </span></sup> </p><p>Eighty-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is slightly less than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 82% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", higher than the city's average of 78%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 13">: 13 </span></sup> For every supermarket in Jamaica and Hollis, there are 20 <a href="/wiki/Convenience_store" title="Convenience store">bodegas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 10">: 10 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post_offices_and_ZIP_Codes">Post offices and ZIP Codes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Post offices and ZIP Codes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg/220px-Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg/330px-Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg/440px-Jamaica-USPO_Front_colonnade.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3651" data-file-height="2735" /></a><figcaption>Front colonnade of Jamaica Station post office</figcaption></figure> <p>Jamaica is covered by multiple <a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Codes</a>. West of Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica falls under ZIP Codes 11435 north of <a href="/wiki/Linden_Boulevard" title="Linden Boulevard">Linden Boulevard</a> and 11436 south of Linden Boulevard. East of Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica is part of three ZIP Codes: 11432 north of <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Avenue" title="Jamaica Avenue">Jamaica Avenue</a>, 11433 between Jamaica Avenue and Linden Boulevard, and 11434 south of Linden Boulevard.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Post Office">United States Post Office</a> operates four post offices nearby: </p> <ul><li>Briarwood Station – 138-69 Queens Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Jamaica,_Queens)" title="United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens)">Jamaica Station</a> – 88-40 164th Street<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Archer Avenue New Station – 97-03 Sutphin Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Rochdale Village Station – 165-100 Baisley Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jamaica and Hollis possess a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>. While 29% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 19% have less than a high school education and 51% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> The percentage of Jamaica and Hollis students excelling in math rose from 36% in 2000 to 55% in 2011, and reading achievement increased slightly from 44% to 45% during the same time period.<sup id="cite_ref-:17_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:17-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jamaica and Hollis's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is more than the rest of New York City. In Jamaica and Hollis, 22% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per <a href="/wiki/School_year" class="mw-redirect" title="School year">school year</a>, higher than the citywide average of 20%.<sup id="cite_ref-:21_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:21-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24 (PDF p. 55)">: 24 (PDF p. 55) </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> Additionally, 74% of high school students in Jamaica and Hollis graduate on time, about the same as the citywide average of 75%.<sup id="cite_ref-CHP2018_28-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHP2018-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 6">: 6 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_and_secondary_schools">Primary and secondary schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Primary and secondary schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg/220px-PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg/330px-PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg/440px-PS_131_Abigail_Adams_84_Av_172_St_jeh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Abigail Adams School</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Public_schools">Public schools</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Public schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jamaica's public schools are operated by the <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Department_of_Education" title="New York City Department of Education">New York City Department of Education</a>. </p><p>Public high schools in Jamaica include: </p> <ul><li>Springfield Gardens Educational Campus (formerly <a href="/wiki/Springfield_Gardens_High_School" title="Springfield Gardens High School">Springfield Gardens High School</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Martin_High_School" title="August Martin High School">August Martin High School</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eagle_Academy_for_Young_Men_of_Southeast_Queens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eagle Academy for Young Men of Southeast Queens (page does not exist)">Eagle Academy for Young Men of Southeast Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Edison_High_School_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas A. Edison High School (New York City)">Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillcrest_High_School_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillcrest High School (New York City)">Hillcrest High School</a></li> <li>Campus Magnet Educational Campus (formerly <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_High_School_(Queens)" title="Andrew Jackson High School (Queens)">Andrew Jackson High School</a>)</li> <li>Jamaica Campus (formerly <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_High_School_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica High School (New York City)">Jamaica High School</a>), an official municipal landmark<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_High_School_for_the_Sciences" title="Queens High School for the Sciences">Queens High School for the Sciences</a> at York College</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Gateway_to_Health_Sciences_Secondary_School" title="Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School">Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School</a></li> <li>High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Women%27s_Leadership_School_of_Queens" title="The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens">The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=York_Early_College_Academy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="York Early College Academy (page does not exist)">York Early College Academy</a></li></ul> <p>Public elementary and middle schools in Jamaica include: </p> <ul><li>PS 40 Samuel Huntington<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 45 Clarence Witherspoon<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 48 William Wordsworth<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 50 Talfourd Lawn<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 80 The Thurgood Marshall Magnet School of Multimedia and Communication<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 86<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 95 Eastwood<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 131 Abigail Adams<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 160 Walter Francis Bishop<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PS 182 Samantha Smith<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>IS 238 Susan B Anthony<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>JHS 8 Richard S. Grossley<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>JHS 72 Catherine and Count Basie<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>JHS 217 Robert A. Van Wyck<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>MS 358 <sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Private_schools">Private schools</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Private schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Private schools in Jamaica include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Iman_School" title="Al-Iman School">Al-Iman School</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> PK-12 school.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Molloy_High_School" title="Archbishop Molloy High School">Archbishop Molloy High School</a>, formerly an all-boys' Catholic high school, now co-ed.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Immaculate_Conception_School_(Jamaica_Estates,_New_York)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Immaculate Conception School (Jamaica Estates, New York) (page does not exist)">Immaculate Conception School</a>, a co-ed Catholic school from pre-K to 8th grade. The school is a local landmark located on the property of Immaculate Conception Church and Monastery, run by the <a href="/wiki/Passionist_Congregation" class="mw-redirect" title="Passionist Congregation">Passionist Congregation</a> of priests.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=St._Nicholas_of_Tolentine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="St. Nicholas of Tolentine (page does not exist)">St. Nicholas of Tolentine</a>, a co-ed Catholic school from pre-K to 8th grade, run by the <a href="/wiki/Sisters_of_Charity" title="Sisters of Charity">Sisters of Charity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Mary_Louis_Academy" title="The Mary Louis Academy">The Mary Louis Academy</a>, a Catholic girls' high school run by the <a href="/wiki/Sisters_of_St._Joseph" title="Sisters of St. Joseph">Sisters of St. Joseph</a>.</li> <li>United Nations International School, a private school in Jamaica Estates.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140310212348/http://cariculumpreschool.org/">Cariculum Academy Preschool of Southeast Queens</a>, a community schoolhouse</li> <li>Our Lady's Catholic Academy, located in South Ozone Park. it is a co-ed school from nursery to grade 8</li></ul> <p>The Catholic schools are administered by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Brooklyn" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn">Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn</a>. </p><p>From its 1975 founding to around 1980, <a href="/wiki/The_Japanese_School_of_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="The Japanese School of New York">the Japanese School of New York</a> was located in <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens" title="Jamaica Estates, Queens">Jamaica Estates</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kulers_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kulers-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> near Jamaica.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colleges_and_universities">Colleges and universities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Colleges and universities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arc_(1986)-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg/220px-Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg/330px-Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg/440px-Arc_%281986%29-Houston_Conwill_20190309_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>York College</figcaption></figure> <p>Several colleges and universities make their home in Jamaica proper or in its close vicinity, most notably: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/York_College_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="York College (New York)">York College</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Senior_college" class="mw-redirect" title="Senior college">senior college</a> of the <a href="/wiki/City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_University_(New_York_City)" title="St. John's University (New York City)">St. John's University</a> (Queens Campus), a private Catholic University founded by the Vincentian Fathers (<a href="/wiki/Lazarists" class="mw-redirect" title="Lazarists">Lazarists</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens College">Queens College</a>, a nearby senior college of the City University of New York</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick_Theological_Seminary" title="New Brunswick Theological Seminary">New Brunswick Theological Seminary</a> offers classes at a satellite campus on the St. John's University campus.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Libraries">Libraries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Libraries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Queens_Public_Library" title="Queens Public Library">Queens Public Library</a> operates four branches in Jamaica: </p> <ul><li>The Baisley Park branch at 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Central Library at 89-11 Merrick Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Rochdale Village branch at 169-09 137th Avenue<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The South Jamaica branch at 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard <sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>An additional two branches are located nearby: </p> <ul><li>The St. Albans branch at 191-05 Linden Boulevard<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Briarwood branch at 85-12 Main Street<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_transport">Public transport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Public transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_bus_routes_in_Queens" title="List of bus routes in Queens">List of bus routes in Queens</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg/220px-LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg/330px-LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg/440px-LIRR_Station_bldg_20181017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4048" data-file-height="3036" /></a><figcaption>LIRR station upper mezzanine</figcaption></figure> <p>Jamaica station is a central transfer point on the LIRR which is headquartered in a building adjoining the station. All of the commuter railroad's passenger branches except for the <a href="/wiki/Port_Washington_Branch" title="Port Washington Branch">Port Washington Branch</a> run through the station. The <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">New York City Subway</a>'s <a href="/wiki/IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line" title="IND Queens Boulevard Line">IND Queens Boulevard Line</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/E_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="E (New York City Subway service)">E</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/F_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="F (New York City Subway service)">F</a></span>, and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fd_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fd (New York City Subway service)"><F></a></span> trains) terminate at the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica%E2%80%93179th_Street_station" title="Jamaica–179th Street station">179th Street</a> station, at the foot of <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens" title="Jamaica Estates, Queens">Jamaica Estates</a>, a neighborhood of mansions north of Jamaica's central business district. The <a href="/wiki/Archer_Avenue_lines" title="Archer Avenue lines">Archer Avenue lines</a> (<span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/E_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="E (New York City Subway service)">E</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/J_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" class="mw-redirect" title="J (New York City Subway service)">J</a></span>, and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Z_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" class="mw-redirect" title="Z (New York City Subway service)">Z</a></span> trains) serve <a href="/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard%E2%80%93Archer_Avenue%E2%80%93JFK_Airport_(Archer_Avenue_Lines)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport (Archer Avenue Lines)">Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Center%E2%80%93Parsons/Archer_(Archer_Avenue_Lines)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer (Archer Avenue Lines)">Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer</a> stations.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Yard">Jamaica Yard</a>, at the south end of Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, abuts Grand Central Parkway and the Van Wyck Expressway. </p><p>Jamaica's bus network provides extensive service across eastern Queens, as well as to points in <a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau County</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">the Bronx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rockaway,_Queens" title="Rockaway, Queens">the Rockaways</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Midtown_Manhattan" title="Midtown Manhattan">Midtown Manhattan</a>. Nearly all bus lines serving Jamaica terminate near either the <a href="/wiki/165th_Street_Bus_Terminal" title="165th Street Bus Terminal">165th Street Bus Terminal</a> or the Jamaica Center subway station, except for the <a href="/wiki/Q46_(New_York_City_bus)" title="Q46 (New York City bus)">Q46</a> bus, which operates along Union Turnpike, at the northern border of Jamaica.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Greater Jamaica is home to John F. Kennedy International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in the United States and the world. Public transportation passengers are connected to airline terminals by <a href="/wiki/AirTrain_JFK" title="AirTrain JFK">AirTrain JFK</a>, which operates as both an airport terminal circulator and rail connection to central Jamaica at the integrated LIRR and bi-level subway station located at Sutphin Blvd and Archer Avenue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_thoroughfares">Major thoroughfares</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Major thoroughfares"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Major streets include Archer Avenue, <a href="/wiki/Hillside_Avenue_(Queens)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillside Avenue (Queens)">Hillside Avenue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Avenue_(Queens)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Avenue (Queens)">Jamaica Avenue</a>, Liberty Avenue, <a href="/wiki/Merrick_Road" title="Merrick Road">Merrick Boulevard</a>, Rockaway Boulevard, Parsons Boulevard, <a href="/wiki/Guy_Brewer" title="Guy Brewer">Guy R. Brewer</a> Boulevard (formerly known as New York Boulevard but renamed for a local political leader in 1982), Sutphin Boulevard, and Union Turnpike, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Interstate_678" title="Interstate 678">Van Wyck Expressway (I-678)</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Central_Parkway" title="Grand Central Parkway">Grand Central Parkway</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Avenue" title="Jamaica Avenue">Jamaica Avenue</a> is Jamaica's busiest thoroughfare. It begins at <a href="/wiki/Broadway_Junction_(Brooklyn)" class="mw-redirect" title="Broadway Junction (Brooklyn)">Broadway Junction</a> in Brooklyn, near the boundary of the <a href="/wiki/East_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="East New York">East New York</a> neighborhood. The Avenue enters Jamaica east of the Van Wyck Expressway, and passes the <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Patrick_Addabbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Patrick Addabbo">Joseph Addabbo</a> Social Security Administration Building, courthouses and the main building of the <a href="/wiki/Queens_Public_Library" title="Queens Public Library">Queens Public Library</a>, along with many discount stores. The 200-year-old <a href="/wiki/King_Manor" title="King Manor">King Manor Museum</a>, once home to <a href="/wiki/Rufus_King" title="Rufus King">Rufus King</a>, a founding father of the United States, is located at the corner of 153rd St. and Jamaica Ave. It includes a 2-story museum with over an acre of land and a public park. Directly across from the Museum is the former <a href="/wiki/First_Reformed_Church_(Queens)" title="First Reformed Church (Queens)">First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica</a>, a <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>-listed landmark that has been adaptively reused into the <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Center_for_Arts_and_Learning" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning">Jamaica Performing arts center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Route_25A" title="New York State Route 25A">Hillside Avenue</a> is one of the main thoroughfares of Jamaica. It is served by the <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/E_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="E (New York City Subway service)">E</a></span>, <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/F_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" title="F (New York City Subway service)">F</a></span>, and <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fd_(New_York_City_Subway_service)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fd (New York City Subway service)"><F></a></span> trains, from <a href="/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard_(IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutphin Boulevard (IND Queens Boulevard Line)">Sutphin Boulevard</a> to its <a href="/wiki/Jamaica%E2%80%93179th_Street_(IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica–179th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line)">179th Street</a> terminus. Hillside Avenue runs east from <a href="/wiki/Myrtle_Avenue" title="Myrtle Avenue">Myrtle Avenue</a> in <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_Queens" title="Richmond Hill, Queens">Richmond Hill</a>, along the length of Jamaica, into <a href="/wiki/Queens_Village" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens Village">Queens Village</a>, and finally, Nassau County. It is a wide six-lane street with numerous commercial activities. Hillside Avenue separates Jamaica from Briarwood, Jamaica Hills and Jamaica Estates on the southern boundary. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Interstate_678_in_Jamaica,_Queens.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/220px-Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/330px-Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg/440px-Interstate_678_in_Jamaica%2C_Queens.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Interstate_678" title="Interstate 678">Interstate 678</a> (Van Wyck Expressway) in Jamaica</figcaption></figure> <p>Sutphin Boulevard is Jamaica's second busiest thoroughfare. It has two subway stations, as well as stations for the <a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">LIRR</a> and the <a href="/wiki/AirTrain_JFK" title="AirTrain JFK">AirTrain JFK</a>, and two Queens courthouses. It begins at Hillside Avenue and 147th Place in the north and works its way south and downhill connecting with Jamaica Avenue, Archer Avenue, <a href="/wiki/Liberty_Avenue_(New_York_City)" title="Liberty Avenue (New York City)">Liberty Avenue</a>, South Road, Linden Boulevard, and terminates at Rockaway Boulevard. At first it is a small four-lane street, but in the downtown area it provides six lanes. At 95th Avenue, it reemerges from the LIRR underpass and becomes a four-lane street to its southern endpoint. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Union_Turnpike_(New_York)" title="Union Turnpike (New York)">Union Turnpike</a> travels through, and serving as the northern border between the towns of Flushing and Jamaica. Though both towns were absorbed into New York City in 1898, the division is evident today in the addresses. Buildings on the north side generally begin with a 113- ZIP Code, indicating Flushing, and buildings to the south side begin with a 114- ZIP Code, indicating Jamaica. Union Turnpike separates the northern boundaries of Briarwood, Jamaica Hills and Jamaica Estates from the southern boundaries of Flushing and <a href="/wiki/Fresh_Meadows" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresh Meadows">Fresh Meadows</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Boulevard" title="Rockaway Boulevard">Rockaway Boulevard</a> begins at 90th Avenue and Elderts Lane in <a href="/wiki/Woodhaven,_Queens" title="Woodhaven, Queens">Woodhaven</a>, continuing southeast through Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens, Brookville, and Meadowmere. The segment between Farmers Boulevard in Springfield Gardens and the New York City border in Meadowmere connects the two discontinuous sections of <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Route_878" title="New York State Route 878">New York State Route 878</a>, the Nassau Expressway. In addition, Rockaway Boulevard abuts the northern border of JFK Airport between Farmers and Brookville Boulevards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parks_and_recreation">Parks and recreation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Parks and recreation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Baisley_Pond_Park" title="Baisley Pond Park">Baisley Pond Park</a> has over 100 acres (0.40 km<sup>2</sup>) of outdoor recreational space, including a 30-acre (0.12 km<sup>2</sup>) pond.<sup id="cite_ref-JacksonKeller2010_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JacksonKeller2010-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Flushing_Meadows%E2%80%93Corona_Park" title="Flushing Meadows–Corona Park">Flushing Meadows–Corona Park</a> abuts Jamaica on its far northwestern corner. At 897 acres (363 ha), it is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_parks" class="mw-redirect" title="List of New York City parks">fourth-largest public park in New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The southernmost part of the park is adjacent to Willow Lake, which is named for the many species of <a href="/wiki/Willow" title="Willow">Willow</a> plants which inhabit the area.<sup id="cite_ref-NYCPk-FMCP-WillowTrail_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYCPk-FMCP-WillowTrail-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Yard" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Yard">Jamaica subway yard</a> is located at the very south end of the park site, beyond Willow Lake.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tnone center"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:772px;max-width:772px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:265px;max-width:265px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:175px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baisley_Pond_(Queens)_View_to_the_South.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG/263px-Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG" decoding="async" width="263" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG/395px-Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG/526px-Baisley_Pond_%28Queens%29_View_to_the_South.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Baisley Pond Park</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:265px;max-width:265px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:175px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg/263px-Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="263" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg/395px-Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg/526px-Unisphere_Fountains_-_The_Rocket_Thrower_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5634" data-file-height="3753" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, the Rocket Thrower is a 1963 bronze sculpture by American sculptor Donald De Lue</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:236px;max-width:236px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:175px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Well_-_Houston_Conwill_(1986)_20190312_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg/234px-Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="234" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg/351px-Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg/468px-Well_-_Houston_Conwill_%281986%29_20190312_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Poets Rise - Houston Conwill (1989) Exterior courtyard Jos P. Addabbo Federal Bldg, Well & Lectern</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Other major parks near downtown Jamaica include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Tilly_Park" title="Captain Tilly Park">Captain Tilly Park</a>, located in Jamaica Hills<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Detective_Keith_L._Williams_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Detective Keith L. Williams Park (page does not exist)">Detective Keith L. Williams Park</a><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Wilkins_Park" title="Roy Wilkins Park">Roy Wilkins Park</a>, in St. Albans<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=St._Albans_Park_(Queens)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="St. Albans Park (Queens) (page does not exist)">St. Albans Park</a><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Neighboring_areas">Neighboring areas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Neighboring areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Neighboring areas are <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens" title="Jamaica Estates, Queens">Jamaica Estates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamaica Hills">Jamaica Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hollis,_Queens#Holliswood_subsection" title="Hollis, Queens">Holliswood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bellerose,_Queens" title="Bellerose, Queens">Bellerose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Briarwood,_Queens" title="Briarwood, Queens">Briarwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambria_Heights" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambria Heights">Cambria Heights</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Albans,_Queens" title="St. Albans, Queens">St. Albans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hollis,_Queens" title="Hollis, Queens">Hollis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queens_Village,_Queens" title="Queens Village, Queens">Queens Village</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Ozone_Park,_Queens" title="South Ozone Park, Queens">South Ozone Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kew_Gardens,_Queens" title="Kew Gardens, Queens">Kew Gardens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_Queens" title="Richmond Hill, Queens">Richmond Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laurelton,_Queens" title="Laurelton, Queens">Laurelton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosedale,_Queens" title="Rosedale, Queens">Rosedale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brookville,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="Brookville, Queens">Brookville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rochdale,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochdale, Queens">Rochdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Jamaica,_Queens" title="South Jamaica, Queens">South Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Springfield_Gardens,_Queens" title="Springfield Gardens, Queens">Springfield Gardens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hillcrest,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="Hillcrest, Queens">Hillcrest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kew_Gardens_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Kew Gardens Hills">Kew Gardens Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fresh_Meadows" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresh Meadows">Fresh Meadows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meadowmere,_Queens" title="Meadowmere, Queens">Meadowmere</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Meadowmere_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meadowmere Park (page does not exist)">Meadowmere Park</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Woodhaven,_Queens" title="Woodhaven, Queens">Woodhaven</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_residents">Notable residents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jamaica,_Queens&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Notable residents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Jamaica,_Queens" title="Special:EditPage/Jamaica, Queens">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2014</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Notable current and former residents of Jamaica include: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/50_Cent" title="50 Cent">50 Cent</a>, rapper and entrepreneur<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecily_Adams" title="Cecily Adams">Cecily Adams</a>, actress<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khandi_Alexander" title="Khandi Alexander">Khandi Alexander</a>, actress and dancer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Aschner" title="Marilyn Aschner">Marilyn Aschner</a> (born 1948), professional tennis player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Banks" title="Lloyd Banks">Lloyd Banks</a>, rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/G-Unit" title="G-Unit">G-Unit</a><sup id="cite_ref-born_105-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Beamon" title="Bob Beamon">Bob Beamon</a>, Olympian and world record holder for <a href="/wiki/Long_jump" title="Long jump">long jump</a><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Billig" title="Fritz Billig">Fritz Billig</a>, stamp dealer and author of <i>Billig's Philatelic Handbooks</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Blackman" title="Don Blackman">Don Blackman</a>, jazz-funk pianist, singer and songwriter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Bowles" title="Paul Bowles">Paul Bowles</a>, writer and composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Breslin" title="Jimmy Breslin">Jimmy Breslin</a>, author and columnist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Brooks_(bassist)" title="Harvey Brooks (bassist)">Harvey Brooks</a>, musician and composer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camille_A._Brown" title="Camille A. Brown">Camille A. Brown</a>, Tony nominated Choreographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cal_Bruton" title="Cal Bruton">Cal Bruton</a>, basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Increase_Carpenter" title="Increase Carpenter">Increase Carpenter</a> Minuteman, Revolutionary war veteran<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tina_Charles_(basketball)" title="Tina Charles (basketball)">Tina Charles</a>, WNBA player current with the New York Liberty</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mr._Cheeks" title="Mr. Cheeks">Mr. Cheeks</a>, rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/Lost_Boyz" title="Lost Boyz">Lost Boyz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy" title="Sri Chinmoy">Sri Chinmoy</a>, philosopher and spiritual teacher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinx" title="Chinx">Chinx</a>, rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buck_Clayton" title="Buck Clayton">Buck Clayton</a>, jazz trumpeter<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Desiree_Coleman" title="Desiree Coleman">Desiree Coleman</a>, singer, actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">Mario Cuomo</a>, former governor of New York 1983–1995<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_DeMille" title="Nelson DeMille">Nelson DeMille</a>, author<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rocco_DiSpirito" title="Rocco DiSpirito">Rocco DiSpirito</a>, chef<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Dugan" title="Alan Dugan">Alan Dugan</a>, poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Flood" title="Ann Flood">Ann Flood</a>, actress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashrita_Furman" title="Ashrita Furman">Ashrita Furman</a>, holder of the most <a href="/wiki/Guinness_World_Records" title="Guinness World Records">Guinness World Records</a>, with 88 Guinness World Records</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Holt" class="mw-redirect" title="Alonzo Holt">Alonzo Holt</a>, singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Ian" title="Scott Ian">Scott Ian</a>, rhythm guitarist for <a href="/wiki/Anthrax_(American_band)" title="Anthrax (American band)">Anthrax</a><sup id="cite_ref-born_105-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Iavaroni" title="Marc Iavaroni">Marc Iavaroni</a>, basketball player, former head coach of the <a href="/wiki/Memphis_Grizzlies" title="Memphis Grizzlies">Memphis Grizzlies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._Sparks" title="K. Sparks">K. Sparks</a>, Christian hip hop musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamara_James" title="Kamara James">Kamara James</a>, Olympic fencer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_P._Johnson" title="James P. Johnson">James P. Johnson</a>, "stride" pianist and composer<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crad_Kilodney" title="Crad Kilodney">Crad Kilodney</a>, writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rufus_King" title="Rufus King">Rufus King</a>, signer of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Len_Kunstadt" title="Len Kunstadt">Len Kunstadt</a>, jazz/blues historian, record label owner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_S._Lesser" title="Gerald S. Lesser">Gerald S. Lesser</a> (1926–2010), psychologist, <i><a href="/wiki/Sesame_Street" title="Sesame Street">Sesame Street</a></i> programming developer<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Lee" title="Ivan Lee">Ivan Lee</a> (born 1981), Olympic <a href="/wiki/Saber" class="mw-redirect" title="Saber">saber</a> <a href="/wiki/Fencing_(sport)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fencing (sport)">fencer</a><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald" title="Jeffrey R. MacDonald">Jeffrey R. MacDonald</a>, murderer<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sally_Marr" title="Sally Marr">Sally Marr</a> (1906–1997), <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comic" class="mw-redirect" title="Stand-up comic">stand-up comic</a>, dancer, actress and talent spotter, mother of comic <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Bruce" title="Lenny Bruce">Lenny Bruce</a>, whose act she influenced<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debi_Mazar" title="Debi Mazar">Debi Mazar</a> (born 1964), actress<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darryl_McDaniels" title="Darryl McDaniels">Darryl McDaniels</a> (DMC), rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_McDowald" title="Curtis McDowald">Curtis McDowald</a> (born 1996), fencer<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metallica" title="Metallica">Metallica</a> briefly lived here in April 1983 before recording their debut <a href="/wiki/Kill_%27Em_All" title="Kill 'Em All">Kill 'Em All</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Miller" title="Marcus Miller">Marcus Miller</a>, jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicki_Minaj" title="Nicki Minaj">Nicki Minaj</a>, rapper, born in Trinidad, brought to Queens at 5 years old</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>, jazz bassist, composer and autobiographer<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalilah_Muhammad" title="Dalilah Muhammad">Dalilah Muhammad</a>, Olympic track and field athlete, gold-medalist in 400m hurdles<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_Odom" title="Lamar Odom">Lamar Odom</a>, NBA star, former reality TV star</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_O%27Malley" title="Walter O'Malley">Walter O'Malley</a>, former owner of the Brooklyn and L.A. Dodgers. Lived in Jamaica from 1917 to 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-Alumni_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alumni-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Parsons_(businessman)" title="Richard Parsons (businessman)">Richard Parsons</a>, former chairman of Citigroup and former chairman and CEO of Time Warner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pepa_(rapper)" title="Pepa (rapper)">Pepa</a> (born 1964 or 1969 as Sandra Denton), rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/Salt-N-Pepa" title="Salt-N-Pepa">Salt-N-Pepa</a><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letty_Cottin_Pogrebin" title="Letty Cottin Pogrebin">Letty Cottin Pogrebin</a> (born 1939), writer/journalist<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khalid_Reeves" title="Khalid Reeves">Khalid Reeves</a>, former NBA Player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddie_Roman" title="Freddie Roman">Freddie Roman</a>, comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Sears" title="Al Sears">Al Sears</a>, jazz saxophonist<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assata_Shakur" title="Assata Shakur">Assata Shakur</a>, activist and convicted murderer<sup id="cite_ref-born_105-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Simmons" title="Joseph Simmons">Joseph Simmons</a> (Run), rapper/pastor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Simmons" title="Russell Simmons">Russell Simmons</a>, entrepreneur/producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathcliff_Slocumb" title="Heathcliff Slocumb">Heathcliff Slocumb</a>, former pitcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fredro_Starr" title="Fredro Starr">Fredro Starr</a>, actor, rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/Onyx_(hip_hop_group)" title="Onyx (hip hop group)">Onyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grant_Still" title="William Grant Still">William Grant Still</a>, "dean of American black composers"<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sticky_Fingaz" title="Sticky Fingaz">Sticky Fingaz</a>, actor, rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/Onyx_(hip_hop_group)" title="Onyx (hip hop group)">Onyx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eva_Taylor" title="Eva Taylor">Eva Taylor</a>, 1920s vocalist known as the "Dixie Nightingale"<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Thompson_(pianist)" title="Bob Thompson (pianist)">Bob Thompson</a>, jazz pianist, composer and arranger<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lennie_Tristano" title="Lennie Tristano">Lennie Tristano</a>, jazz pianist and composer<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Trump" title="Fred Trump">Fred Trump</a>, <a href="/wiki/Real_estate_development" title="Real estate development">real estate developer</a> and father of Donald Trump</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, real estate <a href="/wiki/Business_magnate" title="Business magnate">tycoon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reality_television" title="Reality television">reality television</a> star and 45th <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a><sup id="cite_ref-born_105-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-born-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Webster" title="Ben Webster">Ben Webster</a>, jazz tenor saxophonist<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marinus_Willett" title="Marinus Willett">Marinus Willett</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty" title="Sons of Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a>, officer in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, mayor of New York (1807–08)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Williams_(musician)" title="Clarence Williams (musician)">Clarence Williams</a>, jazz pianist and composer<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fess_Williams" title="Fess Williams">Fess Williams</a>, jazz clarinetist<sup id="cite_ref-queenspress_110-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-queenspress-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Wright" title="Bernard Wright">Bernard Wright</a>, pop/funk/jazz composer, keyboardist and singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Yayo" title="Tony Yayo">Tony Yayo</a>, rapper and member of hip-hop group <a href="/wiki/G-Unit" title="G-Unit">G-Unit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q-Tip_(musician)" title="Q-Tip (musician)">Q-Tip (musician)</a>, Born Jonathan William Davis. Rapper, and record producer. Best known for his innovative fusion of jazz into hip hop and a former member of legendary hip hop band, <a href="/wiki/A_Tribe_Called_Quest" title="A Tribe Called Quest">A Tribe Called Quest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phife_Dawg" title="Phife Dawg">Phife Dawg</a>, Born Malik Taylor. 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I't wont matter that the Jamaica resident is acutely nearsighted and slender (511" and 160 pounds with his equipment on)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com/html/chronology.html">"The Jeffrey MacDonald Information Site: Chronology, part 1"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Jeffrey+MacDonald+Information+Site%3A+Chronology%2C+part+1&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com%2Fhtml%2Fchronology.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJamaica%2C+Queens" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/20/arts/sally-marr-91-the-mother-of-lenny-bruce.html">"Sally Marr, 91, the Mother of Lenny Bruce"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, December 20, 1997. Accessed June 21, 2023. "She was born Sadie Kitchenberg in Jamaica, N.Y., and was married at 17."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Greater Astoria Historical Society. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://qns.com/2013/08/debi-mazar-known-for-playing-jersey-girls-hails-from-jamaica/">"Debi Mazar, known for playing Jersey Girls, hails from Jamaica"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Queens_Courier" class="mw-redirect" title="Queens Courier">Queens Courier</a></i>, August 11, 2013. Accessed June 21, 2023. "Seemingly having followed this advice, movie and television actress Debi Mazar (b. 1964) has cultivated a specific persona — that of the sassy, Italian Jersey Girl.... 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"The son of a commissioner of markets, he attended Jamaica High School in Queens and Culver Military Academy on Indiana, where he played on the baseball team until a broken nose finished his playing career."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Dinitia_Smith" title="Dinitia Smith">Smith, Dinitia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/1994/01/straight-outta-queens.html">"Straight Outta Queens"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i>, January 17, 1994. Accessed November 7, 2022. "One day in 1985, James was sitting by herself in the lunchroom, as she always did, when she noticed Denton, a plump, bubbly girl with bleached-blonde curls and a black leather jacket.... She had been born in the Caribbean, to a prosperous Jamaican family, but was raised in Jamaica, Queens."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Steinberg, Sally Levitt. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/19/nyregion/the-essence-of-developing-friendships.html">"The Essence Of Developing Friendships"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, April 19, 1987. Accessed November 7, 2022. "In her own life, Ms. Pogrebin has moved away from friendships where the subject for talk at the sandbox is which sausage goes in the paella.... The beginning of her own journey was as far back as she can remember, when she played, day and night, with her best friend across the street in Jamaica, Queens, until she moved away at the age of 11."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKeller2022" class="citation news cs1">Keller, Michael W. (December 11, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.register-herald.com/news/life/this-week-in-west-virginia-history/article_b729157c-75ab-11ed-8bc4-7b401f947656.html">"This Week in West Virginia History"</a>. <i>The Register-Herald</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proctor-Hopson_Circle" title="Proctor-Hopson Circle">Proctor-Hopson Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospect_Cemetery_(Queens)" title="Prospect Cemetery (Queens)">Prospect Cemetery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Wilkins_Park" title="Roy Wilkins Park">Roy Wilkins Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield_Park_(Queens)" title="Springfield Park (Queens)">Springfield Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Iman_School" title="Al-Iman School">Al-Iman School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archbishop_Molloy_High_School" title="Archbishop Molloy High School">Archbishop Molloy High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Martin_High_School" title="August Martin High School">August Martin High School</a></li> <li><a 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title="Thomas A. Edison High School (Queens)">Thomas A. Edison High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/York_College,_City_University_of_New_York" title="York College, City University of New York">York College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Women%27s_Leadership_School_of_Queens" title="The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens">The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Religion</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Presbyterian_Church_in_Jamaica" title="First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica">First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Reformed_Church_(Queens)" title="First Reformed Church (Queens)">First Reformed Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Episcopal_Church_Complex_(Queens)" title="Grace Episcopal Church Complex (Queens)">Grace Episcopal Church Complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Allen_A._M._E._Cathedral_of_New_York" title="Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York">Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_First_German_Presbyterian_Church" title="Jamaica First German Presbyterian Church">Jamaica First German Presbyterian Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masjid_Al-Mamoor" title="Masjid Al-Mamoor">Masjid Al-Mamoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Monica%27s_Church_(Queens)" title="St. Monica's Church (Queens)">St. Monica's Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afrikan_Poetry_Theatre" title="Afrikan Poetry Theatre">Afrikan Poetry Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Center_for_Arts_%26_Learning" title="Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning">Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other buildings/<br />structures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/85-15_Wareham_Place" class="mw-redirect" title="85-15 Wareham Place">85-15 Wareham Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baisley_Park_Houses" title="Baisley Park Houses">Baisley Park Houses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belson_Stadium" title="Belson Stadium">Belson Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Chamber_of_Commerce_Building" title="Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building">Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Hospital_Medical_Center" title="Jamaica Hospital Medical Center">Jamaica Hospital Medical Center</a></li> <li>Jamaica Savings Bank <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Savings_Bank_Building_(Sutphin_Boulevard)" title="Jamaica Savings Bank Building (Sutphin Boulevard)">146-21 Jamaica Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Savings_Bank" title="Jamaica Savings Bank">161-02 Jamaica Avenue</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Manor" title="King Manor">King Manor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Race_Course" title="Jamaica Race Course">Jamaica Race Course</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Kurtz_and_Sons_Store_Building" title="J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building">J. Kurtz and Sons Store Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Casina" title="La Casina">La Casina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Detention_Facility" title="Queens Detention Facility">Queens Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidewalk_clock_on_Jamaica_Avenue" title="Sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue">Sidewalk clock on Jamaica Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Jamaica_Houses" title="South Jamaica Houses">South Jamaica Houses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triboro_Hospital_for_Tuberculosis" title="Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis">Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Jamaica,_Queens)" title="United States Post Office (Jamaica, Queens)">United States Post Office</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valencia_Theatre" title="Valencia Theatre">Valencia Theatre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transportation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">Subway</a> stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/169th_Street_station_(IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line)" title="169th Street station (IND Queens Boulevard Line)">169th Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica%E2%80%93179th_Street_station" title="Jamaica–179th Street station">Jamaica–179th Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Center%E2%80%93Parsons/Archer_station" title="Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer station">Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica%E2%80%93Van_Wyck_station" title="Jamaica–Van Wyck station">Jamaica–Van Wyck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsons_Boulevard_station" title="Parsons Boulevard station">Parsons Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard_station_(IND_Queens_Boulevard_Line)" title="Sutphin Boulevard station (IND Queens Boulevard Line)">Sutphin Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard%E2%80%93Archer_Avenue%E2%80%93JFK_Airport_station" title="Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station">Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/165th_Street_Bus_Terminal" title="165th Street Bus Terminal">165th Street Bus Terminal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hillside_Facility" title="Hillside Facility">Hillside Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_station" title="Jamaica station">Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locust_Manor_station" title="Locust Manor station">Locust Manor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Albans_station_(LIRR)" title="St. Albans station (LIRR)">St. Albans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/160th_Street_station" title="160th Street station">160th Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/168th_Street_station_(BMT_Jamaica_Line)" title="168th Street station (BMT Jamaica Line)">168th Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cedar_Manor_station" title="Cedar Manor station">Cedar Manor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Avenue_station_(BMT_Jamaica_Line)" title="Metropolitan Avenue station (BMT Jamaica Line)">Metropolitan Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Boulevard_station" title="Queens Boulevard station">Queens Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Junction_station" title="Rockaway Junction station">Rockaway Junction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutphin_Boulevard_station_(BMT_Jamaica_Line)" title="Sutphin Boulevard station (BMT Jamaica Line)">Sutphin Boulevard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Hall_Street_station" title="Union Hall Street station">Union Hall Street</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaver_Pond_(Queens)" title="Beaver Pond (Queens)">Beaver Pond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Bay" title="Jamaica Bay">Jamaica Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Bay_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge">Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related areas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Briarwood,_Queens" title="Briarwood, Queens">Briarwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens" title="Jamaica Estates, Queens">Jamaica Estates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaica_Hills,_Queens" title="Jamaica Hills, Queens">Jamaica Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meadowmere,_Queens" title="Meadowmere, Queens">Meadowmere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochdale_Village,_Queens" title="Rochdale Village, Queens">Rochdale Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Jamaica,_Queens" title="South Jamaica, Queens">South Jamaica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield_Gardens,_Queens" title="Springfield Gardens, Queens">Springfield Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Albans,_Queens" title="St. Albans, Queens">St. Albans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><i>See also:</i> <a href="/wiki/Queens_Community_Board_12" title="Queens Community Board 12">Queens Community Board 12</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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Queens">Neponsit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ozone_Park,_Queens" title="Ozone Park, Queens">Ozone Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomonok,_Queens" title="Pomonok, Queens">Pomonok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queensboro_Hill,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="Queensboro Hill, Queens">Queensboro Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queensbridge_Houses" title="Queensbridge Houses">Queensbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queens_Village,_Queens" title="Queens Village, Queens">Queens Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rego_Park,_Queens" title="Rego Park, Queens">Rego Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond_Hill,_Queens" title="Richmond Hill, Queens">Richmond Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridgewood,_Queens" title="Ridgewood, Queens">Ridgewood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochdale_Village,_Queens" title="Rochdale Village, Queens">Rochdale Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway,_Queens" title="Rockaway, Queens">Rockaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockaway_Beach,_Queens" 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