White Plains is the largest city and a modern corporate center with large facilities for IBM and a number of companies relocating north from Manhattan. Smaller but very upscale areas lie east along the Long Island Sound Rye being an example and north along the Hudson as the smaller towns of Tarrytown, Ossining and Croton-on-Hudson.
Rockland County is more middle class with some working-class areas. West Nyack is a large family-oriented middle class area. Other suburbs give workers access to New York by freeway or by rail lines across the Hudson or to northern New Jersey. The New York area offers a rich assortment of amenities, with world-class dining, shopping, and performing arts including theater, symphony, opera, and live music.
Museums and architectural attractions, large and small, draw global audiences. An extensive public transit system with subways and buses serves the urban core and links the boroughs. A suburban rail and ferry network services surrounding communities in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey. Three major airports—La Guardia, Kennedy, and nearby Newark—provide air service domestically and abroad.
Surrounding the city are numerous recreation areas: Long Island beaches, the Poconos, the Hudson Valley, and the Jersey Shore, to name only a few. The downsides are significant.
The city is crowded and stressful, and some neighborhoods are run down. Violent crime rates are high, although not as bad as the stereotype. Cost of living is high in all categories and is rising. Home prices there can be five to six times higher for comparable properties in surrounding boroughs. New York is a great place — if you like the lifestyle and can make ends meet.
The New York City area exceeds square miles and is located mostly on islands. Elevations range from less than 50 feet over most of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens to several hundred feet in northern Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. The area is close to storm tracks, and most weather approaches from the west- producing higher summer and lower winter temperatures than would otherwise be expected in a coastal area.
Summers are hot and humid with occasional long periods of discomfort. Sea breezes occasionally moderate summer heat and winter cold in Lower Manhattan. Manhattan and the inner boroughs are more likely to receive rain in winter while outlying areas get snow.
Precipitation is distributed fairly evenly throughout the year. Summer rainfall is mainly from thunderstorms, usually of brief duration. Late summer and fall rains associated with tropical storms may occur. First freeze is mid-November, last is early April. Recent job growth is Positive.
Bellerose jobs have increased by 0. More Economy. More Voting Stats. Since , it has had a population growth of 3. Learn More The National Average is Home appreciation the last 10 years has been 7. The average school expenditure in the U. There are about More Education. Start Your Review of Bellerose.
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Best Places to Live in Bellerose Rankings. Housing Market in Bellerose. It's a good time to buy in Bellerose. Home Appreciation is up Reviews for Bellerose 2 Reviews. Read More. Bellerose Terrace, now separated from the rest of Bellerose at about th Street, was developed separately in the s.
The later community of Bellerose in Queens was initiated several years after its namesake, which it attempted to emulate. Massachusetts Blvd. Note NYC-type fire alarm in front of the building. In , Jamaica Avenue east of the Cross Island parkway was re-named for Jericho Turnpike, which the south side of the street has always been called, as it is in Nassau County. Jericho Turnpike is named for a town through which it passes in mid-Nassau County purchased from the Indians by Quakers in ; preacher Elias Hicks was born there: his son-in-law Valentine Hicks was 2nd president of the Long Island Rail Road and founded Hicksville.
The turnpike so named because it was a former toll road, with a long wooden pole, or pike, placed across the road at tollbooths existed for centuries as a Matinecock Indian trail before Europeans arrived in the s. Yes, there was some discussion of renaming Jericho Turnpike to Jamaica Ave. Nassau communities were asked and declined. Based on our research of old maps at the time, it seems that historically that section of the roadway was named Jericho Turnpike and changed to Jamaica Avenue on the city north side sometime after the consolidation of the city in We also understand that one of the original toll turnpikes was located at or near the intersection of th Street.
Floral Park takes its name from the flower farms so prevalent in that area following the Civil War; 3 of its main streets are Tulip and Carnation Avenues, and Floral Parkway. After a period when it was called Hinsdale, Floral Park attained its present name in after horticulturalist John L. Sign, Jericho Turnpike and Tulip Avenue. Floral Park public library, built Summer afternoon, Tulip Avenue. Trumpeters tune up for a wedding at Our Lady of Victory Church. Most photos this page were taken August with a smudged lens, it seems.
Page completed May 21, As kids, we were just accustomed to this. No big deal. I am from , th Street which is between 85th and 86th Avenues.
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