Utopia Parkway is a major street 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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. Starting in the neighborhood of
Beechhurst and ending in the
Jamaica Estates
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neighborhood, the street connects
Cross Island Parkway
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and
Northern Boulevard
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in the north to
Union Turnpike,
Grand Central Parkway
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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
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United Kingd ...
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
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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 the following:
* A branch of the Q16 runs between Cross Island Parkway and 26th Avenue. The also serves this branch, but heads east on 26th Avenue and west on Willets Point Boulevard.
* The Q30 and Q31 run on Utopia south of Horace Harding Expressway
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and Hollis Court Boulevard, respectively.
* The Bay Terrace-bound run from 14th Road to Cross Island Parkway.
In Popular Culture
The American Rock band Fountains of Wayne
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named their second studio album, Utopia Parkway, after the street.
References
Streets in Queens, New York
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