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
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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


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