High Income Areas in Queens? (houses, college, living in)

[mrouse]

Which part of Queens is known for having high-income people living in it? Thanks for your replies.

[bmwguydc]

Forest Hills Gardens, Bayside, Douglaston, Jamaica Estates, and Little Neck all have high income residents.

[analyticalkeys]

Malba Ave. in particular.. don't know if this is considered Whitestone or College Point.

[bmwguydc]

Originally Posted by analyticalkeys

Malba Ave. in particular.. don't know if this is considered Whitestone or College Point.

Malba has its own identity, considered separate by many, but I do think it's part of Whitestone proper, even being on the other side of the expressway from much of the rest of Whitestone, because of the way the river divides it from College Point. You can get through to the rest of Whitestone on 3rd Ave, but you have to use 11th Ave to get through to College Point. Before the bridges were built, this would have been one community, not unllike other peninsulas on the North shore of the Island.

[Fred314X]

And don't forget Neponsit on the Rockaway Peninsula--it's sandwiched between Belle Harbor and Riis Park. I do believe that little district makes Forest Hills look positively middle class!

[Andysocks]

Bayside Gables, Douglas Manor, Little Neck Hills to be a little more specific where the really affluent people live.

BG and LNH are standard suburban fare with bigger original houses than the rest of Bayside and Little Neck, but Douglas Manor is seriously no joke. An enormous variety of absolutely georgous old mansions along narrow little streets with an enormous hill centered in the middle of the peninsula it sits on... pics on sites like Forgotten-NY don't do it justice at all... take a drive over to Douglaston Pkway, park your car and take a walk north of 35th Ave (no street parking up there). I discovered it by accident when I was just out exploring one day looking for a view of the bridge. screw McMansions with fake stucco and pink brick siding, those are houses I can respect. It's really a shame no one builds anything like that anymore. Oh yeah, and it's a historic district. Possibly the largest concentration of brown street signs I've seen outside Manhattan, haha.

[bryson662001]

Is Jamaica Estates still as fancy as it once was?

[Fred314X]

I don't think anyone would be unreasonable if they called Jamaica Estates fancy.

[Shoegal1075]

To answer your question specifically no, it isn't as fancy as it once was.

[Viralmd]

Given that the OP is almost a year old, I think he's already found an answer to his question.