Corona is the neighborhood in the Queens area of ​​New York City. It borders Flushing to the east, Jackson Heights to the west, Forest Hills and Rego Park to the south, Elmhurst to the southwest, and East Elmhurst to the north. Corona has a multicultural population with a Latin majority, and is a historic site of the American American African and Italian community. After World War II, the majority of the population in the neighborhood were mostly Italians, Germans, Irish, and other European ancestors. Corona also has a significant Chinese population.
Corona borders on the east with Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, one of New York City's largest parks and 1939 and 1964 World Exhibition sites. Located inside the park is Citi Field, which replaces Shea Stadium as the home of the New York Mets baseball team in the year 2009, and USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where US Open in tennis is held every year. In North Korona is the northern part of the historic Corona neighborhood, created in 1978 with the formation of the Community Council of the city and the Community District, and the need for adjacent borders. Corona's main avenues include Corona Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Junction Boulevard and 108th Street. The neighborhood is part of the Queens Community Board 4, while the northernmost part is included in the Community Board 3. The Corona ZIP code is 11368. Corona, with East Elmhurst, is often referred to as a combined area, Corona-East Elmhurst.
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History
The area was originally known as West Flushing, but real estate developer Thomas Waite Howard, who became the first postmaster in 1872, petitioned to have the postal office name changed to Corona in 1870, indicating that it was the "Queens County crown." Another theory is that the name Corona comes from a crown used as a symbol by the Crown Building Company, which is thought to have developed the area; Italian immigrants who move to a new housing refers to the environment by Italian or Spanish for "crown", or "corona". Either way, the name is a foreign translation of the word "crown."
Corona is a late 19th century residential development in the northeast corner of Oldtown Newtown. Real estate speculators from New York started the community in 1854, the same year when New York and Flushing Railroad began serving most of the region to serve the newly opened race course. It was in the Fashion Racing Course in 1858 that the first game of baseball to fill the admission ticket took place. The game, which takes place between the All Stars of Brooklyn and the All Stars of New York, is generally believed to be the first all star baseball game and is basically the birthplace of professional baseball. A baseball trophy from this tournament recently sold for nearly half a million dollars.
During the second half of the 1940s to the 1960s, many legendary African American musicians, civil rights leaders and athletes moved into the neighborhood. In the last half of the 20th century, Corona saw dramatic ethnic success. In the 1950s, what was primarily an Italian American and African American environment began to give way to the entry of the Dominicans. In the late 1990s, Corona saw a new wave of immigrants from Latin America. The area north of Roosevelt Avenue contains the hearts of the historic African American community. The intersection of 108th Street and Corona Avenue is the historic center of the Italian American community, sometimes referred to as Corona Heights. The majority Hispanic community now consists of Dominicans, Colombia, Ecuador, Salvador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Mexicans, Venezuela, and Chile. There are also Asian Americans (Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, and Japanese) as well as American Italian and African American.
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Structure
Corona has several private schools including the Transfiguration School. Public schools include Art and Business Colleges and P.S. 92.
There are many churches representing various denominations. The Antiochene Baptist Church on 103rd Street and Northern Boulevard is a prominent African-American congregation dating in 1936 with a membership of 700 people. The Catholic Church Our Mother of Sorrow at 104th Street and 37th Avenue was built in 1899 mostly from red brick with the nearby monastery. from the same period. Today he does most of his mass in Spanish and draws a lot of people over the weekend. The Congregation of Tifereth Israel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The Dorie Miller Residential Cooperative, built in 1952, consists of six buildings, containing 300 apartments, totaling 1,300 rooms. This cooperative is named after Doris "Dorie" Miller, a hero of the US Navy at Pearl Harbor and the first African recipient of the Cross Navy. Among the original population were jazz music Nat Adderley & amp; Jimmy Heath; Kenneth and Corien Drew, Queens's first African-American newspaper publisher, The Corona East Elmhurst News, founder Thelma E. Harris of Aburi Press and Queens Judge Henry A, Slaughter. Corona is also the home of Marie Maynard Daly's childhood. A biochemist, Daly is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry. Daly studied the effects of cholesterol on cardiac mechanics, the effects of sugars and other nutrients on arterial health, and disruption of the circulatory system due to old age or hypertension; The scientist then studied how proteins are produced and regulated in the cell and the composition and metabolism of the cell's core components.
Louis Armstrong House attracts visitors to the neighborhood and retains the legacy of Louis Armstrong musicians, one of the most prominent historical residents in Corona. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Demographics
According to the 2010 Census, Corona's total population is around 110,000. Corona is very Hispanic with all other demographics (Asian, black, and white non-Hispanic) that is definitely below the region average.
Historical archive
Corona/East Elmhurst also holds one of the most extensive collections of African American art and literature at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Culture Center, which serves Queens with references and outstanding collections, totaling around 30,000 volumes of material written about or related to the black culture.. The Queens County Black Heritage Reference Center includes books, periodicals, theses and dissertations, VHS videos, tapes and CDs, photos, posters, prints, paintings and sculptures. Arts and Culture programs are scheduled through the Center. The meeting room is available to community organizations by app. Special features of the Center include:
- The Schomburg Clippings File , an extensive collection of microfiche from periodicals, magazine clippings, manuscripts, broadside, pamphlets, programs, book reviews, menus and epemera of all kinds.
- The UMI Thesis and Dissertation Collection consists of over 1,000 volumes of doctoral and master's dissertations on African and African-American diaspora.
- The Adele Cohen Music Collection contains most of America's leading black publications on microfilm. The paper covers 15 countries starting in 1893, and is updated annually with current issues.
- Black History Video Collection documenting African and African-American history and culture on cassettes, and in all subject areas including literature, biography, social sciences, art.
Transportation
The Flushing IRT path ( 7 and & lt; 7 & gt; trains) runs through the neighborhood by stopping at Mets-Willets Point, 111th Street, 103rd Street-Corona Plaza, and Junction Highway. Buses Q19, Q23, Q33, Q48, Q49, Q58, Q66, and Q72 also serve the environment.
Famous citizen
Notable current and former residents of Corona include:
In popular culture
- Books on Corona's history and presence include Roger's All Our Future and Steven Gregory Black Corona .
- Chapter 6 of the biography of Andrew Morton Madonna describes American pop singer Madonna as a resident of Corona in the late 1970s and early 80s.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald refers to the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park dump as the "ash valley" in his novel The Great Gatsby.
- Paul Simon calls the fictitious character "Rosie, queen of Corona" in his 1972 song Me and Julio Down by Schoolyard .
- Lemon Ice King of Corona, on 108th Street and Corona Avenue, appears on the opening credit credits of King of Queens .
See also
- New York City Portal
- Media related to Corona, Queens on Wikimedia Commons
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References
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