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Originally Posted by avataress
Is Kew Gardens Hills in zip code 11367 a township, or what? Thanks.
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I was just thinking a bit about this very issue today (what a coincidence).
Apart from however the U.S. Postal Service designates areas for their zip code mapping and mail delivery purposes (e.g.,Queens College, while having a street and mailing address which states "Flushing, NY", is technically located within the jurisdiction of Kew Garden Hills . . . though some people think it is in Pomonok but Pomonok itself is a sub-section of Kew Garden Hills)
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Kew Garden Hills is often sometimes thought of as its own neighborhood but it might best be deemed as a sub-neighborhood or sub-section (sub-division) within the jurisdiction of Flushing, Queens, NY but without a distinct politcal or legal identity (apart from a postal designation and maybe police stations and public libraries saying "Kew Garden Hills" on their buildings). The same goes for Fresh Meadows, which can be thought of as its own neighborhood or it can be thought of as an extended area of the large neighborhood of Flushing. As far as I can discern or think that I know about it (having been rather familar with the area-at-large), Kew Garden Hills has no political or legal jurisdictional status of its own but rather falls under the political reach of Flushing (school boards, community boards, et al).
There are
no so-called "townships" (politically or legally speaking) in any of the five boroughs of New York City but only what are called "neighborhoods". Prior to 1898 (when a portion of eastern Queens split off to form the newly-designated Nassau County and the remaining Queens became politcally a part of the City of New York), Queens was a jurisdiction that had legally-designated
towns (e.g, Flushing, Jamaica, Long Island City, et al). Originally, Queens County included the adjacent area now comprising Nassau County. After 1898 (when a portion of easten Queens was split off to form the newly-designated Nassau County), these
towns in Queens lost all political (legal) status and simply became designated as "neighborhoods" within the borough or county of Queens . . . yet, being that they
were, in fact,
formerly designated as "towns" prior to 1898, mail is still addressed in Queens to the individual
neighborhoods (as though they
were still towns) instead of simply being addressed to "Queens, NY. Unlike Bronx and Brooklyn, where all mail or parcels addressed to any party in those boroughs is supposed to be addressed simply to "Bronx, NY" and "Brooklyn, NY", respectively.
As Wikipedia states: "The area now designated Nassau County was originally the eastern 70% of Queens County, one of the original 12 counties formed in 1683, and was then contained within two towns: Hempstead and Oyster Bay. Nassau County was formed in 1899 by the division of Queens County, after the western portion of Queens had become a borough of New York City in 1898."
Another example: Auburndale (an area north and south of Northen Blvd. between downtown Flushing, Bayside, and Fresh Meadows) is given its own name (i.e, Auburndale) and yet it is wholly a sub-section or sub-division of Flushing. The same as Kew Garden Hills. It has no legal or political designation or status whatsoever (unless I am misinformed).
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