Official Name: | Queens Community District 2 |
Other Name: | Queens Community Board 2 |
Settlement Type: | Community District |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | USA New York City#USA New York#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in New York City |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | City |
Subdivision Name2: | New York City |
Subdivision Type3: | Borough |
Subdivision Name3: | Queens |
Parts Type: | Neighborhoods |
Parts Style: | list |
Parts: | list |
P1: | Hunters Point |
P2: | Long Island City |
P3: | Sunnyside |
P4: | Woodside |
Government Type: | Community board |
Governing Body: | Queens Community Board 2 |
Leader Title: | Chairperson |
Leader Name: | Lisa Deller |
Leader Title1: | District Manager |
Leader Name1: | Debra Markell Kleinert |
Unit Pref: | US |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 5.0 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 139,088 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | auto |
Demographics Type2: | Ethnicity |
Demographics2 Title1: | African-American |
Demographics2 Info1: | 1.3% |
Demographics2 Title2: | Asian |
Demographics2 Info2: | 35.2% |
Demographics2 Title3: | Hispanic and Latino Americans |
Demographics2 Info3: | 33.2% |
Demographics2 Title4: | White |
Demographics2 Info4: | 28.1% |
Demographics2 Title5: | Others |
Demographics2 Info5: | 2.3% |
Demographics2 Title6: | American Indian or Alaska Native --> |
Demographics2 Info6: | % --> |
Timezone1: | Eastern |
Utc Offset1: | −5 |
Timezone1 Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 11101, 11104, 11377 and 11378 |
Area Code Type: | Area codes |
Area Codes: | 718, 347, and 929, and 917 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Police Precincts |
Blank Info Sec1: | 108th |
Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
The Queens Community Board 2 is a local advisory group in New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Hunters Point, Long Island City, Sunnyside, and Woodside, in the borough of Queens. It is delimited by the East River on the west; Bridge Plaza North, the Long Island Rail Road and Northern Boulevard on the north; New York Connecting Railroad on the east; and Newtown Creek on the south.
As of the 2000 United States census, the Community Board had a population of 109,920, up from 94,845 in 1990 and 88,930 in 1980.
Of these (as of 2000), 33,877 (30.8%) were non-Hispanic White, 2,158 (2.0%) were African-American, 29,380 (26.7%) were Asian or Pacific Islander, 184 (0.2%) were American Indian or Native Alaskan, 550 (0.5%) were of some other race, 3,732 (3.4%) were non-Hispanic of two or more races, and 40,039 (36.4%) were of Hispanic origins.
The land area is 5mi2.
Ancient Glacier Rock is a glacial erratic[3] [4] [5] in the Long Island City section of Queens, New York City. Until the late 2010s, the street area next to it was largely ignored by city planners, unusable by car traffic, often surrounded by litter and used for parking[6] for employees of a nearby business.
In April 2019, the New York City Department of Transportation made a proposal to the Queens Community Board 2 to convert it into a "Street Seat area"[7] under the Street Seats program, which creates public areas for use in the warmer months.[8] The plan was approved and the area was opened later that year.[9] [10]