Utopia Parkway is a major street in the
New York City
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borough
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History
In the Middle A ...
of
Queens
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. Starting in the neighborhood of
Beechhurst and ending in the
Jamaica Estates neighborhood, the street connects
Cross Island Parkway and
Northern Boulevard
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in the north to
Union Turnpike,
Grand Central Parkway
The Grand Central Parkway (GCP) is a 14.61-mile (23.51 km) long parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County on Long Island. At the Queens–Nassau border, it becomes the Northern State Parkway, ...
and
Hillside Avenue Hillside may refer to the side of a hill.
Places Australia
* Hillside mine, a proposed mine on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
* Hillside, New South Wales
*Hillside, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
Canada
* Hillside, Nova Scotia
United Ki ...
in the south.
History and naming
Simon Freeman, Samuel Resler, and Joseph Fried incorporated the Utopia Land Company in 1903. The following year, the Utopia Land Company bought of land between the communities of Jamaica and Flushing.
The Utopia Land Company intended to build a
cooperative community
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for Jewish families interested in moving away from the
Lower East Side of
Manhattan
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. They intended to name the streets after those on the Lower East Side, where there was already a large Jewish population.
[ After its initial acquisition, the company was unable to secure enough funding to further develop the area.]
. ''NYC Parks''. Retrieved March 19, 2017. Utopia Playground was opened by the New York City Department of Parks in 1942.
It was the site of the Black Stump School and later the Black Stump Hook, Ladder and Bucket Company.
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Transportation
Utopia Parkway is served by a branch of the Q16 north of 26th Avenue, the Q30 south of Horace Harding Expressway and the Q31 south of Hollis Court Boulevard.
In Popular Culture
The American Rock band Fountains of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne was an American rock band that formed in New York City in 1995. The band included founding members Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter, and Brian Young. They released five albums from 1996 to 2011 before e ...
named their second studio album, Utopia Parkway, after the street.
References
Streets in Queens, New York
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