Predominantly a residential section, Queens has numerous well-defined neighborhoods or communities, including several that originated in colonial times. Jamaica, Long Island City, and Maspeth are business centers of the borough, and other communities include Astoria, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, Flushing, Forest Hills, Jackson Heights, Kew Gardens, Rego Park, Saint Albans, and Sunnyside.
Queens is linked to extensive transportation facilities that include municipal subway and bus lines and the Long Island Rail Road, which provides service to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island. The borough has an extensive network of limited-access highways and is linked to Manhattan by the Queensboro Bridge; the Queens-Midtown Tunnel; and the Triborough Bridge, which also links Queens with the Bronx. Further links with the Bronx are provided by the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge and the Throgs Neck Bridge. Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge extends from Brooklyn across Rockaway Inlet to the Rockaway Peninsula, which borders the Atlantic Ocean. Two of the busiest airline terminals in the world are in Queens: La Guardia Airport, in the northern part of the borough, and John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport, in the south.Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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