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Hofstra University
Hempstead NY
~1.27 miles from Uniondale city center
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Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York. It came into existence in 1935 envisioned as an independent institution of higher learning, but for the beginning, it was established under the aegis of New York University (NYU) and was originally known as "Nassau College - Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island". The original intent was realized in 1937, when it became the independent Hofstra College. The extension of NYU was founded on the estate of a recently deceased wealthy couple, lumber magnate William S. Hofstra (1861-1932) and his second wife, Kate Mason (1854-1933). The extension had been proposed by a Hempstead resident, Truesdel Peck Calkins, who had been superintendent of schoo...
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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum - NY Islanders
1255 Hempstead Turnpike Uniondale NY
~1.32 miles from Uniondale city center
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Home of the New York Islanders NHL Hockey team and the NY Dragons AFL team.The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, commonly known as Nassau Coliseum or simply The Coliseum, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, on Long Island. The Coliseum is 19 miles (30 km) from New York City. It is home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. "Fort Neverlose" was also used as a nickname for Nassau Coliseum during the period between the 1979–80 and 1983–84 seasons as the Islanders won the Stanley Cup four consecutive times.
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Nassau Coliseum
Long Island NY
~1.34 miles from Uniondale city center
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The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, commonly known as Nassau Coliseum or simply The Coliseum, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, on Long Island. The Coliseum is 19 miles (30 km) from New York City. It is home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. "Fort Neverlose" was also used as a nickname for Nassau Coliseum during the period between the 1979–80 and 1983–84 seasons as the Islanders won the Stanley Cup four consecutive times.
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Bellerose (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~6.64 miles from Uniondale city center
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Bellerose, better known as Bellerose Manor, is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of the New York City borough of Queens, near the border with Nassau County. It is sometimes referred to as Bellerose Manor, to distinguish it from the adjacent Bellerose Village and Bellerose Terrace in Nassau. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13. The northern edge of Bellerose is separated from the Nassau border by the neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens to the east.In addition, residents can catch express buses directly to the city, or city buses to the subway, on Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue, or Union Turnpike the three major arteries that run through the town's limits.Today, the neighborhood is comprised predominantly of detached houses with a mostly Irish-American, German-Ame...
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Belmont Park
Muttontown NY
~6.64 miles from Uniondale city center
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Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York, in Nassau County, Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. It first opened on May 4, 1905.It is world-famous as the home of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown.Belmont is known as The Championship Track because most every major champion in racing history since the early 20th century has competed on the racecourse—including each of the 11 Triple Crown winners. Along with Saratoga, Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Churchill Downs in Louisville, and Del Mar and Santa Anita racecourses in California, Belmont is considered one of the elite racetracks in the sport.Belmont Park is operated by the non-profit New York Racing Association, as are Aqueduct and Saratoga R...
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Floral Park (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~6.97 miles from Uniondale city center
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Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York on Long Island. The population is 16,800[2]. The village is at the western border of Nassau County, and is located in both the Town of Hempstead and the Town of North Hempstead. The neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens, home of the North Shore Towers, is adjacent to the village.
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Glen Oaks (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.39 miles from Uniondale city center
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Glen Oaks is a neighborhood in the easternmost portion of the New York City Borough of Queens. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.Glen Oaks lies between Grand Central Parkway to the north, Union Turnpike to the south, the Queens/Nassau county border to the east, and the Cross Island Parkway to the west. In this area, the Queens/Nassau border separates New York City from the Village of Lake Success. The Queens/Nassau border is referred to locally as "the city line" and is so designated on New York City buses. Union Turnpike is the main commercial road in the area.The northern edge of Glen Oaks is a line of hills that is the terminal moraine of the last glacial period. These hills include the highest point in Queens: 258.2 feet (78.7 m) above sea level. The southern pa...
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Cambria Heights (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.61 miles from Uniondale city center
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Cambria Heights is a suburban neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Springfield Boulevard and Francis Lewis Boulevard to the west, the Elmont, Nassau County border on the east, Queens Village to the north, St. Albans to the west, and Montefiore Cemetery and Laurelton and Rosedale to the south. As of 2007, Cambria Heights's population is 20,128.[1] The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.
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Bellaire (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.79 miles from Uniondale city center
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Bellaire is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Bellaire is in east central Queens between Hollis and Queens Village, and covers the area surrounding Jamaica Avenue and 211th Street. The area is actually a part of Queens Village, which is comprised of three zip codes: Bellaire (11429), Hollis Hills (11427), and Queens Village proper (11428); the latter area the only one to have a post office, which delivers to all three zip codes. Bellaire is the largest section of Queens Village. The area considered Bellaire usually falls under the general title of Queens Village.
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Queens Village (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.89 miles from Uniondale city center
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Queens Village is a mostly residential neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The Queens Village Post Office serves the ZIP codes of 11427 (Hollis Hills), 11428 (central Queens Village), and 11429 (Bellaire). The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.Shopping in the community is located along Braddock, Hillside Avenue, Hempstead Avenue, and Jamaica Avenue, as well as on Springfield Boulevard. Located just east of Queens Village, in Nassau County, is the famous Belmont Park race track.
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Laurelton (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~7.94 miles from Uniondale city center
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Laurelton is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is now a largely African American and West Indian middle-class to upper-middle class neighborhood. In the 1930s through 1970s and beyond, the neighborhood was populated by many Jewish Americans, but succeeding generations have been made up of new migrants. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13. Laurelton is part of the former town of Jamaica. It's better known today as part of the larger community of Jamaica, Queens. Merrick Boulevard, which bisects the community in a generally east-west direction, forms its commercial spine.The area of Laurelton closest to Rosedale and Cambria Heights is mostly made up of single-family homes. The area abutting Springfield Gardens contains many two-family homes. The ar...
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Bethpage Black Golf Course
99 Quaker Meeting House Rd Bethpage NY - (516) 249-0700
~8.01 miles from Uniondale city center
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Bethpage State Park, a mecca for public golf featuring five 18-hole regulation golf courses including the world-renowned Black Course.
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Rosedale (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~8.05 miles from Uniondale city center
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Rosedale is a suburban neighborhood in Queens. The neighborhood is on the Nassau County, New York - Queens border and is part of Queens Community Board 13.Rosedale was originally conceived in the consolidation of the borough of Queens as a part of what is now Springfield Gardens. At the time, the Laurelton Land Company was in charge of the new Borough of Queens. It was dotted with farmland that was isolated from each other, so construction on an acceptable mode of transportation was started immediately. The Southern Railroad of Long Island(now Long Island Rail Road) was built and the whole area (today Laurelton, Rosedale, and Springfield Gardens) was served by Laurelton Station. The area was also connected to the Brooklyn waterworks. In the 20th century, the water system was less neede...
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Douglaston (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~8.46 miles from Uniondale city center
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Douglaston, population 14,168 (2000 Census), is a community in the New York City borough of Queens. Douglaston comprises six distinct neighborhoods: Doug Bay, Douglas Manor, and Douglaston Hill, all located north of Northern Boulevard on the peninsula abutting Little Neck Bay; Douglaston Park, located between Northern Boulevard and the Long Island Expressway; and two areas south of the Expressway, Winchester Estates and an area simply known as Douglaston. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 11 and New York City school district 26.Douglaston is located on the North Shore of Long Island, bordered to the east by Little Neck, and to the west by Bayside. Douglaston's two ZIP Codes are 11362 and 11363.Douglaston represents one of the least traditionally urban communities in Ne...
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Oakland Gardens (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~8.64 miles from Uniondale city center
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Oakland Gardens is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded to the north by 48th Avenue, to the east by Alley Pond Park, to the south by Union Turnpike, and to the west by Cunningham Park. Bayside is to the north, and Queens Village and Bellerose are to the south and southeast, respectively. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 11.Fredrick Newbold Lawrence built a mansion in the area in 1847 called "The Oaks", and the neighborhood's name probably derives from that estate. Many people refer to Oakland Gardens as "Bayside" because of their proximity and similarity to Bayside, Queens.
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Hollis (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~8.94 miles from Uniondale city center
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Hollis is a neighborhood within the southeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens. A predominantly African American community, the boundaries are considered to be the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road to the west, Jamaica Avenue to the north, Francis Lewis Boulevard to the east (although parts of Queens Village are addressed as Hollis on Jamaica water bills) and Murdock Avenue to the south. However, much of this area is considered to be within the St. Albans postal district. Hollis is close to Jamaica and Queens Village, Queens. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 12. Hollis is patrolled by the NYPD's 113th Precinct.It was originally settled by the Dutch homesteaders in the 17th century. It was also a site for part of the Battle of Long Island ...
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Holliswood (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.17 miles from Uniondale city center
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Holliswood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Holliswood is in east central Queens bounded by the Grand Central Parkway to the north, Francis Lewis Boulevard to the east, Hillside Avenue to the south and 188th Street on the west. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 8.
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Long Beach
Long Beach NY
~9.33 miles from Uniondale city center
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Long Beach is a city in Nassau County, New York. One of Long Island's two cities, it is located on a namesake island, which forms part of the Outer Barrier off Long Island's South Shore. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 35,462. It was incorporated in 1922, and is nicknamed The City By the Sea (as seen, in Latin, on its official seal).The City of Long Beach is surrounded by the Town of Hempstead to the north, east and west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.Charles T. Theofan is the current city manager, a position which is appointed by the City Council.
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Springfield Gardens (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.47 miles from Uniondale city center
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Springfield Gardens is a neighborhood in the southeastern area of the New York City borough of Queens, bounded to the north by St. Albans, to the east by Laurelton & Rosedale, to the south by John F. Kennedy International Airport, and to the west by Farmers Boulevard. The neighborhood is served by Queens Community Board 12.The area was first settled by Europeans in 1660, and was subsequently farmed until the mid nineteenth-century.Major residential development came in the 1920s as Long Island Rail Road service was expanded to the area at the Springfield Gardens station (closed in 1979). Farmers Boulevard, Merrick Boulevard, Springfield Boulevard, Rockaway Boulevard, and Guy R. Brewer Boulevard all are major streets in the area. Today the area maintains its low-rise suburban nature, and...
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Little Neck (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.48 miles from Uniondale city center
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Little Neck is a community in the northeast corner of Queens County, bordered on the north by Little Neck Bay and on the east by Great Neck in Nassau County. Due to this proximity to Nassau, Little Neck remains one of the most suburban-looking areas in New York City. The southern border is the Grand Central Parkway, and to the west is Douglaston. The Little Neck station is the easternmost New York City station on the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 11.Little Neck is home to the busiest of approximately a dozen remaining railway grade crossings in New York City.From the 1860s through the 1890s, small hard clams (quahogs) from Little Neck Bay were served in the best restaurants of New York and several European...
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Fresh Meadows (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.79 miles from Uniondale city center
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Fresh Meadows is a residential neighborhood in northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.Fresh Meadows is bordered to the east by Cunningham Park, to the south by Union Turnpike, to the west by 164th Street, located on the northeast side of Hillcrest. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 8 and is served by the United States Postal Service as ZIP codes 11365 and 11366.Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2009)During the American Revolution General Benedict Arnold drilled his troops in the area, on the current location of M.S. 216. During the 19th century, Fresh Meadows was a farming community known as Black Stump. The name derives from the convention of ...
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Jamaica (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.84 miles from Uniondale city center
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Jamaica is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. It was settled under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland as Rustdorp.[1] Under British rule, the Village of Jamaica became the center of the Town of Jamaica. Jamaica was the county seat of Queens County from the formation of the county in 1683 until March 7, 1788, when the town was reorganized by the state government and the county seat was moved to Mineola (now part of Nassau County). When Queens was incorporated into the City of Greater New York 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. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 12.[2] Jamaica is patrolled by the NYPD's 103rd[3] Precinct...
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Rochdale (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.87 miles from Uniondale city center
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Jamaica Estates (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~9.98 miles from Uniondale city center
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Jamaica Estates is a wealthy neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens. Jamaica Estates is part of Queens Community Board 8 It is bounded by Union Turnpike to the North, Hillside Avenue to the South, Utopia Parkway and Homelawn Street to the West and 188th Street to the East.Jamaica Estates was created at the turn of the century by the Jamaica Estates Company, which developed the hilly terminal moraine's 503 acres (2.04 km2), while preserving many of the trees that had occupied the site. Jamaica Estates now has significant Modern Orthodox Jewish-American and South Asian-American populations. The latter has been particularly impacted by the wave of mortgage foreclosures that began in 2008.The only apartments and multi-family housing lie near the southern border within...
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Bayside (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~10.21 miles from Uniondale city center
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Bayside is a suburban neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York, New York in the United States. Bayside is known as one of the most expensive areas to live in, with well kept homes and landscaping. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 11.Bayside has been included in CNN Money's list of Most Expensive Housing Markets, and was also a contender for CNN Money's ranking of Best Places to Live 2005, and Best Places to Retire 2005.Bayside's history dates back to 2000 B.C., when the Matinecock Native American tribe first settled there. In the late 17th century, the area was settled by English colonists. By the middle of the 18th century, early settlers left their homes in Flushing and developed a farming community, Bay Side. During the Revolutionary War, the Bayside-L...
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Jamaica Hills (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~10.72 miles from Uniondale city center
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Jamaica Hills is a small neighborhood in central Queens in New York City, USA. The neighborhood is surrounded by the Grand Central Parkway (north), Jamaica Estates (east), Jamaica (south), and Briarwood (west). It is centered on the terminal moraine which runs the length of Long Island. Originally populated with people who left neighborhoods under ethnic transition, Jamaica Hills started to become more ethnically diverse after 1964. The population today is mostly east Indians and smaller populations from the Caribbean, Central America, and China. Because of the opening of a Greek Orthodox church in the 1960s, many Greek immigrants also live in the area. Jamaica Hills is patrolled by the NYPD's 107th Precinct.
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Far Rockaway (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~10.82 miles from Uniondale city center
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Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It is the easternmost section of the Rockaways. The neighborhood starts at the Nassau County line and extends west to Beach 32nd Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 14.Far Rockaway's character is that of an inner-city, oceanfront commuter town, in some ways having more in common with Asbury Park, New Jersey than with New York City. Far Rockaway is one of the most distant New York neighborhoods from Manhattan, the cultural and financial center of New York City. Formerly populated by Eastern European Jewish and Irish immigrants, it now has a large African American population, though the westernmost portion still remains mostly Irish. Downtown Far Rock...
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Jfk Airport (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~10.91 miles from Uniondale city center
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John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK, ICAO: KJFK, FAA LID: JFK) is an international airport located in Queens County, New York in southeastern New York City about 12 miles (19 km) from Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States and is also the leading freight gateway to the country by value of shipments.JFK airport is the base of operations for JetBlue Airways and a major international gateway hub for Delta Air Lines. It is also the smallest hub for American Airlines. Ninety airlines operate out of JFK. The airport is named after John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.The airport is operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which also manages the two other major airports in the New York metr...
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Utopia (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~11.03 miles from Uniondale city center
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Utopia, a neighborhood located in the New York City borough of Queens is bordered by Utopia Parkway to the west, 188th Street to the east, Union Turnpike to the south, and 73rd Avenue to the north. It adjoins the neighborhoods of Jamaica Estates, Hillcrest, and Fresh Meadows. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 8.Utopia is a predominantly middle class neighborhood. It contains a large group of Conservative and Orthodox Jews as well as groups of Chinese, Korean, Russian, Indian, and Hispanic people.Utopia is a mostly a suburban neighborhood with tree lined streets.
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Hillcrest (Neighborhood)
New York City NY
~11.03 miles from Uniondale city center
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