Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in Queens, a borough of New York City. Woodside, Elmhurst and Corona are also covered in this article. To an increasing number of travelers and curious New York natives, the area offers a diversity of mostly reasonably-priced restaurants representing many of the world's cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Korean, Mexican, Peruvian, Italian, and Argentine.Photo: Marcuswoollen, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood with 67,100 residents
- Description: neighborhood in Queens, New York City, USA
- Postal code: 11372
Notable Places in the Area
Travers Park
Photo: Deansfa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Travers Park is a 2-acre community park and playground in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City.
Boulevard Theatre
Boulevard Theatre was an 1,839-seat theater opened in 1926 in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York.Elmhurst Hospital Center
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY 4.0.
Elmhurst Hospital Center, also known as NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, is a 545-bed public hospital in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens in New York City.
Localities in the Area
Metro New York
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Metro New York or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around New York City in the states of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Elmhurst
Photo: DoomDan515, Public domain.
Elmhurst is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.
Woodside
Photo: Peter Greenberg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woodside is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of Queens in New York City.
Jackson Heights
- Categories: gay village and locality
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.75566° or 40° 45' 20" northLongitude
-73.88578° or 73° 53' 9" westPopulation
67,100Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)United Nations Location Code
US JKHOpen Location Code
87G8Q447+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 158856995OpenStreetMap Feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5122477Wikidata ID
Q1145574Jackson Heights Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جاكسون هايتس
- Catalan: Jackson Heights
- Chinese: 傑克森高地
- Chinese: 傑克遜高地
- Chinese: 杰克逊高地
- Danish: Jackson Heights
- Dutch: Jackson Heights
- English: Jackson Heights, New York City
- English: Jackson Heights, Queens
- English: Trains Meadow
- French: Jackson Heights
- German: Jackson Heights
- German: Jackson Heights (Queens)
- Hebrew: קווינס/ג'קסון הייטס
- Indonesian: Jackson Heights
- Irish: Jackson Heights
- Italian: Jackson Heights
- Japanese: ジャクソンハイツ (クイーンズ区)
- Japanese: ジャクソン・ハイツ (クイーンズ)
- Japanese: ジャクソン・ハイツ
- Japanese: ジャクソン・ハイツ地区 (クイーンズ)
- Korean: 잭슨하이츠
- Korean: 잭슨 하이츠
- Portuguese: Jackson Heights
- Russian: Джексон-Хайтс
- Slovenian: Jackson Heights
- Spanish: Jackson Heights
- Spanish: Jackson Heights (Queens)
- Swedish: Jackson Heights
- Turkish: Jackson Heights, Queens
- Turkish: Jackson Heights
- Urdu: جیکسن ہائیٹس، کوئینز
- Welsh: Jackson Heights
Other Places Named Jackson Heights
Localities in the Area
- East ElmhurstNeighborhood
- CoronaNeighborhood
- SteinwayNeighborhood, 1½ miles northwest
- Sunnyside GardensNeighborhood, 2 miles west
- LeFrak CityNeighborhood, 2 miles southeast
Popular Destinations in Queens
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