Rego Park is a neighborhood in the
borough
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History
In the Middle A ...
of
Queens
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in
New York City
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. Rego Park is bordered to the north by
Elmhurst and
Corona
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, to the east and south by
Forest Hills, and to the west by
Middle Village. Rego Park's boundaries include
Queens Boulevard
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, the
Long Island Expressway
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,
Woodhaven Boulevard
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, and Yellowstone Boulevard. There is a large
Jewish
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population in the neighborhood, which features high-rise apartment buildings and detached houses, as well as a large commercial zone.
Rego Park is located in
Queens Community District 6 and its ZIP Code is 11374.
It is patrolled by the
New York City Police Department
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's 112th Precinct.
Politically, Rego Park is represented by the
New York City Council's
29th District and a small part of the
24th and
25th
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Districts.
History
Rego Park is built on lands originally part of the
Leni Lenape Nation. Possibly inhabited by members of the
Canarsee
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band. By 1653, though, English and Dutch farmers moved into the area and founded a community called Whitepot, which was a part of the
Township of Newtown. Whitepot is believed to be so named because Dutch settlers named the area "Whiteput", or "hollow creek"; later, English settlers Anglicized the name.
[ The Remsen family created a burial ground, which is still located on Alderton Street near Metropolitan Avenue. The colonists also founded the Whitepot School, which operated until the late 19th century.][
The area turned out to be good for farming, the colonists cultivated hay, straw, rye, corn, oats, and vegetables.][ The original Dutch, English, and German farmers sold their produce in Manhattan; by the end of the 19th century, though, Chinese farmers moved in and sold their goods exclusively to Chinatown.][
The settlement was renamed Rego Park after the Real Good Construction Company, which began development of the area in 1925.] "Rego" comes from the first two letters of the first two words of the company's name. The company built 525 eight-room houses costing $8,000 each. Stores were built in 1926 on Queens Boulevard
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Queens Boulevard runs northwest to s ...
and 63rd Drive, and apartment buildings were built in 1927–1928. In 1930, the Independent Subway System
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began work on eight IND Queens Boulevard Line stations in the area, at a cost of $5 million. The subway extension was concurrent with the Real Good Construction Company's completion of apartment buildings near Queens Boulevard and one-family homes throughout the rest of the neighborhood.
The short block of 63rd Drive between Austin Street and the Long Island Railroad overpass was the scene of a fire in February 1972 that claimed a row of stores and the neighborhood library.[ The blistering "Rego Park Inferno" reportedly started in the second store on the block from Austin Street, a shoe store, and quickly spread with the gusting winds to neighboring stores, including a television repair shop, toy store, pet shop and a pioneering Indian restaurant, and finally, the library, where row upon row of oily books and wooden shelves sent flames high into the sky and up the embankment of the railroad. Firefighters scrambled to keep the windswept flames from reaching an apartment house behind the stores, a new ]Key Food
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supermarket across Austin Street, or the Shell
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gas station just across the drive. The library caved in before flames could damage the electrical wires lining the railroad. A new library eventually opened across the street (on the former site of the Shell gas station). After the fire, until the new library was built, the community was served by a mobile " Bookmobile" library which parked under the LIRR tracks on 63rd Drive. A similar fire had decimated the same block in 1959.[
]
Demographics
Based on data from the 2010 United States census
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, the population of Rego Park was 28,260, a decrease of 1,144 (3.9%) from the 29,404 counted in 2000
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. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of .[Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010](_blank)
Population Division – New York City
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Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.
The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 46.2% (13,068) White
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, 2.5% (698) African American
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, 0.1% (41) Native American, 31.7% (8,966) Asian, 0.1% (7) Pacific Islander
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, 0.4% (124) from other races
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, and 2.4% (674) from two or more races. Hispanic
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or Latino
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of any race were 16.6% (4,682) of the population.[Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010](_blank)
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Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.
The entirety of Community Board 6, which comprises Rego Park and Forest Hills, had 115,119 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.4 years. This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are middle-aged and elderly adults: 31% are between the ages of 25–44, 28% between 45 and 64, and 19% over 64. The ratio of young and college-aged residents was lower, at 16% and 5% respectively.
As of 2017, the median household income
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in Community Board 4 was $75,447. In 2018, an estimated 26% of Rego Park and Forest Hills residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) 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 50% in Rego Park and Forest Hills, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, , Rego Park and Forest Hills is considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying
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.
Ethnic enclaves
Like its neighbor Forest Hills, Rego Park has long had a significant Jewish
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population, most of which have Georgian
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and Russian Jewish ancestors, with a number of synagogues and kosher restaurants. Many Holocaust
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survivors settled in Rego Park after 1945. In the 1990s, Jewish immigrants
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from the former Soviet Union
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, especially from Central Asia
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, moved in.[ Most of the residents are Bukharan Jewish,][ and the effect of life in the Soviet Union on the population has led Rego Park to have a Russian feel with many signs in Russian Cyrillic. Most of the Bukharan Jewish immigrants in the neighborhood come from ]Uzbekistan
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and Tajikistan
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, and there is also Uzbek and Tajik cuisine
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in many Rego Park restaurants.[
Immigrant populations from ]Albania
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, Bosnia, Israel
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, Romania
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, Iran
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, Colombia, South Asia
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, China, Bulgaria
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, Peru
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, and South Korea
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are also represented in the neighborhood, as well as many restaurants and stores operated by people of different nationalities.[ In the 2000s and 2010s, many young professionals also moved in, and the average price of residential units in Rego Park increased correspondingly.][
]
Land use
Housing
Many apartment buildings, multi-family, and railroad houses make up the north side of Rego Park. Apartment complexes include The Carol House, Savoy Gardens, Jupiter Court, The Brussels, and LeFrak City
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.[
However, many houses in southern Rego Park are in the colonial, English, and ]Tudor style
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s with slate roofs. There are also two and multi-family townhouses, detached wood-frame houses. This is especially so in an area called the Crescents, named for its semicircular shaped streets emanating in a concentric pattern from Alderton Street, between Woodhaven Boulevard and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line. The Crescents contain many Tudor and single-family homes, as well as large lawns and tree plantings on the sidewalks.[ There are also many newer "Fedders houses",][ so called because these newer houses are all cheaply made and uniform-looking, with the names of the air conditioners (usually of the ]Fedders
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brand) sticking out of the walls.
Vornado Realty Trust
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built a 312-unit residential tower on top of Rego Center Phase II, to accommodate a surge in young professionals moving into the area. About 20% of the units are studio apartments, with the rest being one- and two-bedroom apartments. In addition, other new residential projects are also under construction around the neighborhood.
Commerce
Rego Park is home to some of Queens' most popular shopping destinations, including the , 4-floor Rego Center
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The property was originally the only Quee ...
. Phase I has a large Bed Bath & Beyond
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, Marshalls
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, Burlington Coat Factory
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, and Old Navy
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locations,[ as well as a multilevel parking garage developed by ]Vornado Realty Trust
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.[ It contained a small format IKEA, which opened in 2021 as the first of its type in the U.S. but closed in December 2022.
Phase II opened in 2010 with of retail space] on 62nd Drive across from Rego Park Center. It houses Costco
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, T.J. Maxx, Panera Bread
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, and Lenora Furniture, with more stores being built.
Across the Long Island Expressway
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, in nearby Elmhurst, is the Queens Center Mall.[ Queens Center opened on September 12, 1973, on land previously occupied by Fairyland, a supermarket, and automobile parking. The mall doubled in size from 2002 to 2004.][
The first Trader Joe's in Queens opened in 2007 at 90–30 ]Metropolitan Avenue
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, in a building that also has a Staples and a Michaels
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, and is next to Bob's Discount Furniture
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, and Home Depot
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.
The main business thoroughfare of Rego Park is 63rd Drive. The main section extends from Woodhaven Boulevard in the south, to Queens Boulevard in the north, with the central business district of Rego Park nestled between Alderton Street (just south of the Long Island Rail Road overpass), and Queens Boulevard. The stretch south of Alderton is entirely residential. The business district is anchored by The Rego Park School PS 139Q, an elementary school dating from 1928 and Our Saviour Lutheran Church established in 1926 which right across Wetherole Street from PS 139Q. The business district is criss-crossed by four side streets: Saunders, Booth, Wetherole, and Austin Streets. Most of the businesses lining 63rd Drive are the original single story "Taxpayers" dating from the 1930s.
Across Queens Boulevard to the north, 63rd Drive becomes 63rd Road, and its business district continues another three blocks; 63rd Drive actually shifts one block south of 63rd Road. There are many small businesses in this area. Shopping districts with many smaller stores, bakeries, pharmacies and restaurants can be found along 108th Street as well.[
]
Landmarks
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who fought in World War I
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. Now a community center
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, the structure was erected in 1939 as a hall for Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. It was taken over as a community center by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
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in 1960, and is still operated as such. While the VFW maintains its offices at the building, the American Legion left in 1962. The site also contains a play area and a New York City Department of Environmental Protection
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water pumping station.[
The Drake Theater, which opened in 1935 and closed in the 1990s, was used in the 1997 film '' Private Parts''. The theater was damaged in December 1978 after around 500 people, complaining about the theater's sound system threw beer and liquor bottles at the screen and tearing holes in it, smashing seats and the candy counter with fire extinguishers from the walls, and breaking all the glass doors at the entrance.][
]
An AT&T
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telephone building exists at Queens Boulevard and 62nd Drive.[
Our Saviour Lutheran Church, open since the 1920s, conducts its services in English and Chinese.][
The ]art deco
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Rego Park Jewish Center
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, opened in 1939, is notable for an A. Raymond Katz-designed façade
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with Old Testament scenes and symbols carved into it.[ The building is listed on both the ]New York State
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and National Register of Historic Places
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.
The Trylon Theater, an art deco theater built around the time of the 1939 New York World's Fair, was converted to the home of the Education Center for Russian Jewry in 2006. After local furor over interior refurbishment, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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was considering landmarking the property.[ The theater, which closed in 2009, was repurposed into a synagogue for more than a decade, but in 2013, the synagogue's congregation objected to their new landlord's planned eviction of the synagogue. Largely composed of Russian Jews, the congregation had attempted, but failed, to buy the building in 2012.
]
Notable roads
* 63rd Road and Drive, the commercial artery of Rego Park,[ used to be Remsen's Lane, which was named after the Remsen family who lived along the road.][
* The Crescents were originally composed of streets named Asquith, Boelsen, Cromwell, Dieterle, Elwell and Fitchett. These names were chosen when the Real Good Construction Company developed the area in the 1920s.][
* Horace Harding Expressway was once a turnpike called Nassau Boulevard and went from Elmhurst to ]Flushing
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, Bayside, and Little Neck
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. It was renamed for Horace J. Harding (1863–1929), a finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
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and the New York Municipal Railways System; Harding encouraged city planner Robert Moses's system of parkways on New York, and after Harding died, the boulevard—and later, service road
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to the Long Island Expressway
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—was renamed after him.
* Queens Boulevard
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, a wide at-grade highway that stretches from Long Island City to Jamaica
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, was formerly composed of two small dirt roads: Old Jamaica Road and Hoffman Boulevard. In the 1910s, it was paved and widened to 12 lanes. It is sometimes called the "Boulevard of Death" because of the high fatality rate of pedestrians trying to cross the 12-lane boulevard.
*Woodhaven Boulevard
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was known as Trotting Course Lane because it was named when horses were the main mode of transport. The lane dates back to the colonial days, and used to run along Whitepot's border Although it extends to Cross Bay Boulevard in the Rockaways
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, two small parts of the original lane still exist in Forest Hills.
* Yellowstone Boulevard was one of a few colonial roads in the area. It was named after the area's original name.[
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Community activism
Rego Park Group, originally hosted on Yahoo! Groups
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Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various group ...
, strived to improving the quality of life in the neighborhood. The Rego Park Green Alliance has also been active in the community planting flowers and trees, arranging the installation of new garbage cans, pushing for the repair of some sidewalks and creating a large mural celebrating the neighborhood under the LIRR overpass on 63rd Drive.
In March 2010, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York
UJA-Federation of New York ( United Jewish Appeal – Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc.) is the largest local philanthropy in the world. Headquartered in New York City, the organization raises and allocates funds annuall ...
, partnered with Masbia in the opening of a kosher soup kitchen on Queens Boulevard. As of August 2010, the free restaurant was serving over 1,500 meals per month to adults, senior citizens, and families.
In addition, there are two opposing proposals for the redevelopment of the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch
The Rockaway Beach Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City, United States. The line left the Main Line at Whitepot Junction in Rego Park heading south via Ozone Park and across Jamaica ...
, which runs from Rego Park south to Ozone Park
Ozone Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States. It is next to the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, a popular spot for Thoroughbred racing and home to the Resorts Wor ...
. One group
Friends of the Queensway
wants to turn the rail line into parkland. However, another group of transit advocates want the line to be converted into subway or LIRR service.[
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Police and crime
Rego Park and Forest Hills are patrolled by the 112th Precinct of the NYPD
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest in ...
, located at 68-40 Austin Street. The 112th Precinct ranked 6th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. The area's low crime rate is attributed to its seclusion and reputation as a "suburb within the city". , with a non-fatal assault rate of 14 per 100,000 people, Rego Park and Forest Hills's rate of violent crime
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objecti ...
s per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 102 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.
The 112th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 91.5% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 0 murders, 18 rapes, 41 robberies, 53 felony assaults, 69 burglaries, 403 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2018.
Fire safety
There are no fire stations in Rego Park itself, but the surrounding area contains two New York City Fire Department
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is an American department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection services, technical rescue/special operations services, ...
(FDNY) fire stations:
* Engine Co. 305/Ladder Co. 151 – 111-02 Queens Boulevard, in Forest Hills
* Engine Co. 319 – 78-11 67th Road, in Middle Village
Health
, preterm birth
Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks. Extreme preterm is less than 28 weeks, very early preterm birth is between 2 ...
s and births to teenage mothers are less common in Rego Park and Forest Hills than in other places citywide. In Rego Park and Forest Hills, there were 66 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 4.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). Rego Park and Forest Hills have a low population of residents who are uninsured
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. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly lower than the citywide rate of 12%.
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant
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, in Rego Park and Forest Hills is , equal to the city average. Ten percent of Rego Park and Forest Hills residents are smokers, which is lower than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In Rego Park and Forest Hills, 19% of residents are obese
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it may negatively affect health. People are classified as obese when their body mass index (BMI)—a person's we ...
, 7% are diabetic
Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus, is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level ( hyperglycemia) over a prolonged period of time. Symptoms often include frequent urination, increased thirst and increased ...
, and 20% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 20%, 14%, and 24% respectively. In addition, 11% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.
Ninety-three percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher 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%. For every supermarket in Rego Park and Forest Hills, there are 5 bodegas.
The nearest large hospitals are the Elmhurst Hospital Center in Elmhurst and Long Island Jewish Forest Hills
Long Island Jewish Forest Hills is a teaching hospital operating under the Northwell Health hospital network. It is located in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. The hospital is affiliated with the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at H ...
in Forest Hills.
Post office and ZIP Code
Rego Park is covered by ZIP Code 11374. The United States Post Office
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operates the Rego Park Station at 92-24 Queens Boulevard.
Education
Rego Park and Forest Hills generally have a higher percentage of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . The majority of residents (62%) have a college education or higher, while 8% have less than a high school education and 30% 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. The percentage of Rego Park and Forest Hills students excelling in math rose from 42% in 2000 to 61% in 2011, and reading achievement rose from 48% to 49% during the same time period.
Rego Park and Forest Hills's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Rego Park and Forest Hills, 10% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compul ...
, lower than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 91% of high school students in Rego Park and Forest Hills graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.
Public schools
Rego Park's public schools, as are the public schools in all of New York City, are operated by the New York City Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (or the New York City Public Schools) is t ...
. The following elementary schools serve Rego Park and serve grades PK-5 unless otherwise indicated:
* P.S. 139 (Rego Park School, grades K–5)
* P.S. 174 (William Sidney Mount School)
* P.S. 175 (the Lynn Gross Discovery School)
* P.S. 206 (the Horace Harding School, grades K–5)
* P.S. 220 (Edward Mandel School)
All areas in Rego Park are zoned to J.H.S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey (6–9), in Rego Park, or J.H.S. 190 Russell Sage (7–9) in Forest Hills. Rego Park is not zoned to a high school because all New York City high schools get students by application, though Forest Hills High School is located in nearby Forest Hills.
Private schools
Our Lady of the Angelus, a PK–8 private school operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
The Diocese of Brooklyn is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of New York. It is headquartered in Brooklyn and its territory encompasses the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. ...
, is located in Rego Park. Resurrection-Ascension School, another PK–8 private school operated by the Diocese of Brooklyn, is also located in Rego Park.
Our Saviour Lutheran School, K-8, is on Woodhaven Boulevard and is a ministry of Our Saviour Lutheran Church on 63rd Drive.
Private institutions include the Rego Park Jewish Center
The Rego Park Jewish Center (1948) is an Art Deco Streamline Moderne synagogue in the Rego Park
Rego Park is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. Rego Park is bordered to the north by Elmhurst and Corona, to the east and ...
and the Jewish Institute of Queens (also known as the Queens Gymnasia).
Library
The Queens Public Library
The Queens Public Library (QPL), also known as the Queens Borough Public Library and Queens Library (QL), is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest li ...
's Rego Park branch is located at 91-41 63rd Drive. It had 189,000 visitors and a total circulation of 194,000 in 2016. The existing one-story branch, built in 1975, is planned to be replaced with a two-story, building between 2021 and 2024.
Transportation
The IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway has local stations at 63rd Drive and 67th Avenue on the . The line, running under Queens Boulevard
Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Queens connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica. It is long and forms part of New York State Route 25.
Queens Boulevard runs northwest to s ...
, dates from 1935 to 1937.
The local buses serve the neighborhood, as well as the express buses.
The Long Island Rail Road overpass between Austin and Alderton Streets was the location of the Rego Park station until its abandonment in 1962. Though physically part of the Main Line, the station was only served by Rockaway Beach Branch
The Rockaway Beach Branch was a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City, United States. The line left the Main Line at Whitepot Junction in Rego Park heading south via Ozone Park and across Jamaica ...
trains. The station was later dismantled, and little can be discerned of its existence now save for the flattened clearing beside the tracks.
In popular culture
*Rego Park was the setting of the 1980s sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ...
''Dear John'', which centered around the fictional "Rego Park Community Center."
*The CBS
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sitcom ''The King of Queens
''The King of Queens'' is an American television sitcom that ran on CBS from September 21, 1998, to May 14, 2007, a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes. The series was created by Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt, who also served as the show ...
'' is set in Rego Park, and sometimes shows clips of the area.
*''What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel '' by Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn is a Russian-born American novelist. Her novel, ''What Happened to Anna K.'', was selected as the tenth best fiction book of 2008 by Jennifer Reese of Entertainment Weekly, and won the 2009 Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by emerging ...
is set in Rego Park. Most of the characters are Bukharan Jews who have emigrated from the Soviet Union.
*''Brooklyn's Finest
''Brooklyn's Finest'' is a 2009 American crime film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Michael C. Martin. The film stars Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, and Wesley Snipes. ''Brooklyn's Finest'' had its world premiere at the 2009 Su ...
'', a 2010 release, was filmed in part in Rego Park.
*A substantial part of Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel '' Maus''. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ''Arcade'' and '' Ra ...
's graphic novel '' Maus'', a biographical account of his father, a Holocaust survivor, is set in Rego Park.
*The 2013 film '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' was filmed in part in Rego Park, at the now-demolished Shalimar Diner.
*In an episode of '' General Hospital o''riginally aired on May 26, 2015, Denise, an emerging character, claims that she's from Rego Park.
Notable residents
Notable current and former residents of Rego Park include:
* Kenny Anderson (born 1970), former professional basketball player.
* David Baltimore
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(born 1938), Nobel Prize-winning virologist
* Felix Biederman, co-host of Chapo Trap House
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* Lili Bosse
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The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she has supported many Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. Before her current te ...
(née Toren), lived in Rego Park until age 9, mayor of Beverly Hills, California.
* Sid Caesar
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(1922–2014), actor, comedian
* Eddie Egan
Edward R. Egan (January 3, 1930 – November 4, 1995) was an American actor and former police detective. He was the subject of the nonfiction book '' The French Connection'' and its 1971 film adaptation.
Life
Edward R. Egan was born in Queens ...
(1930–1995), New York City Police Department
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detective
* Vera-Ellen (1921–1981), actress and dancer
* Rosco Gordon
Rosco N. Gordon III (April 10, 1928 – July 11, 2002),
sometimes billed as Roscoe Gordon, was an American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter. He is best known for his hit songs "Booted," (1952), "No More Doggin'" (1952), and " Just a Littl ...
(1928–2002), blues singer and songwriter
* June Havoc
June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick; November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.
Havoc was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother Rose Thompson Hovick, ...
(1912–2010), actress
* Aram Haigaz
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(1900–1986), Armenian writer
* Steve Hofstetter (born 1979), comedian, radio personality
* August Howard (1910–1988), founder of the American Polar Society The American Polar Society was founded in 1934 by August Howard.
Honorary members
Starting in 1936 the following explorers, arctic scientists and geographers have been honored:
* David Legge Brainard (1936). He was the first to receive an honorary ...
in 1934
* Malika Kalontarova (born 1950), Central Asian dancer known as the "Queen of Eastern Dance" (People's Artist of USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
)
* Fatima Kuinova
Panir Ibragimova (28 December 1926 – 28 December 2021), better known by the stage name of Fatima Kuinova ( tg, Фатима Куэнова, fa, فاطمه کوینوا), was a Bukharan Jewish Shashmakom singer. She was named "Merited Artist ...
(1926–2021), Central Asian singer, one of the leading singers in the Soviet Union ( Merited Artist of USSR)
* Gypsy Rose Lee (1911–1970), burlesque entertainer
* Robert Lipsyte
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, sports journalist
* Frank Lorenzo
Francisco Anthony "Frank" Lorenzo (born May 19, 1940) is an American businessman. He is well known for his management of Continental Airlines and Texas International Airlines, between 1972 and 1990, through airline deregulation. Lorenzo also le ...
(born 1940), businessman best known for his takeover of Eastern Air Lines and his leadership of Texas International Airlines
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.
* Joe Nichols
Joseph Edward Nichols (born November 26, 1976) is an American country music artist. Between 1996 and 2001, he held recording contracts with the Intersound and Giant Records (Warner), Giant labels. In 2002, he signed with Universal South Records, ...
(1905–1984), sportswriter for ''The New York Times
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''.
* Tommy Ramone (1949–2014), drummer of The Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving a limited commercial appeal in the United S ...
* Dave Rubinstein (1964–1993), singer of Reagan Youth
Reagan Youth is an American anarcho-punk band formed by singer Dave Rubinstein (Dave Insurgent) and guitarist Paul Bakija (Paul Cripple) in Queens, New York City in early 1980.
History Initial career (1980–1990)
Rubinstein and Bakija at ...
* Bobby Schayer
Bobby Schayer (born December 23, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) was the drummer for Bad Religion from 1991 to 2001. He was a resident of Encino, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley. He started drumming in 1976 at the age of 10, but it was not ...
(born 1966), former drummer of Bad Religion
* Fred Silverman
Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as '' ...
(1937–2020), television producer
* Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel '' Maus''. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ''Arcade'' and '' Ra ...
, Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic artist who made Rego Park the setting for significant scenes involving his aged father in '' Maus'', his graphic novel
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about the Holocaust
* Donald A. Wollheim
Donald Allen Wollheim (October 1, 1914 – November 2, 1990) was an American science fiction editor, publisher, writer, and fan. As an author, he published under his own name as well as under pseudonyms, including David Grinnell, Martin Pearso ...
(1914–1990), science fiction editor, publisher and author."Donald A. Wollheim, Publisher, Dies at 76"
''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', November 3, 1990. Accessed January 30, 2020. "Donald A. Wollheim, a writer, editor and publisher of science fiction, died yesterday at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan. He was 76 years old and lived in Rego Park, Queens."
References
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