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For profiles of the towns and villages of Long Island, including Brooklyn
and Queens, have a look at the Long Island Newsday website history section
- link at my page
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/links.html
David Minor
>The Encyclopedia of New York City indicates Astoria was incorporated in
>1839 (p. 968) and Long Island City incorporated in 1870 (p. 691). I
>don't think the other neighborhoods in Queens became villages; the towns
>of Flushing, Jamaica, and Maspeth/Newtown, of course, date back to the
>1640s and 1650s.
>Natalie Naylor, Hofstra University
David Minor
Eagles Byte Historical Research
Pittsford, New York
716 264-0423
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includes NYNY, a series of timelines covering New York City and State, from
approximately 1,100,000,000 BC to 1990 AD.
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