Locust Manor is a neighborhood in the
New York City
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borough
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History
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of
Queens
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. It is bordered on the north by Baisley Boulevard to Irwin Place to Roe Road to 120th Avenue, on the east by the tracks of the
Long Island Rail Road
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to 121st Avenue to Farmers Boulevard, on the south by North
Conduit Boulevard, and on the west by Guy R. Brewer Boulevard to 137th Avenue to 173rd Street to 134th Road to Bedell Street.
Nearby neighborhoods include
Jamaica
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,
South Jamaica, and
Rochdale Village. Locust Manor, which was named after a 1906 residential development in the area, was formerly the location of the
Jamaica Race Course
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History
The track opened on April 27, 1903, a day which featu ...
, which operated from 1903 to 1959, and was torn down in 1960 in order to construct Rochdale Village.
Locust Manor is a "quiet residential neighborhood"
which is home to a predominantly
African American
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and
Afro-Caribbean
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constituency of middle-class income. Locust Manor Estates, on 172nd Street and Baisley Boulevard, is a state-subsidized residential complex of two- and three-family homes, cooperative apartments and senior-living units, subsidized through the New York City Housing Partnership.
"About Locust Manor"
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The neighborhood is served by the Locust Manor station on the Long Island Rail Road
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, located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street, which offers service to Manhattan
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by both the Far Rockaway and Long Beach
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branches.
References
Neighborhoods in Queens, New York
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