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• Queens is the largest of
the five New York City boroughs and second most populated.
• By the year
2000, Queens had a population of over 2 million.
• “If Queens had
been an independent municipality in 2000, when the United States officially counted its citizens, it would have been the fourth-largest
city in the nation, trailing only New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and a bit ahead of Houston" - Kenneth T. Jackson,
Director of the Herbert Lehman Center for American History and Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences,
Columbia University in the book The Neighborhood of Queens.
• The 1992 US Census Bureau declared Queens, which is also a county, the most diverse county in the country.
• Author, Claudia Gryvatz Copquin writes, "Queens is the most heterogeneous
place in the world," in her book The Neighborhood of Queens. • Percentage residents from each borough were "very satisfied with their neighborhood"
(from New York magazine, February 9, 2009):
51% - Queens 41% - Staten
Island 38% - Manhattan 27% - Brooklyn 24% - The
Bronx
• Since 1987 the Queens Library has maintained the highest circulation of
any library in the USA. • With the exception of Forest Park, all the main parks in Queens,
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Kissena Park, Cunningham Park, and Alley Pond Park, are all connected. This unique continuous
stretch of green, great for bicycling, jogging, and walking, is known as the Corridor. Parts of the Corridor are incredibly
lush lined with tall trees.
• Artistic venues include the American Museum
of the Moving Image, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Isamu Noguchi Museum, the Museum for African Art and a burgeoning contemporary
art scene in Long Island City.
• Queens was the site of two World Fairs,
one in 1939-40 and another in 1964-65.
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