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Laurelton, Queens, the Glossary

Laurelton is a largely middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens and part of the former town of Jamaica.^[1]

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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

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Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Area code 917

Area code 917 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the five boroughs of New York City: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.

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Area codes 718, 347, and 929

Area codes 718, 347, and 929 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the New York City boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, as well as the Marble Hill section of Manhattan.

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Atomic spies

Atomic spies or atom spies were people in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada who are known to have illicitly given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War.

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Baruch College

Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.

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Belt Parkway

The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of controlled-access parkways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

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Bernie Madoff

Bernard Lawrence Madoff (April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion.

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Boroughs of New York City

The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City.

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Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.

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Burning Spear

Winston Rodney OD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist, and musician.

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Cambria Heights, Queens

Cambria Heights is a residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Community boards of Queens are New York City community boards in the borough of Queens, which are the appointed advisory groups of the community districts that advise on land use and zoning, participate in the city budget process, and address service delivery in their district.

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Conduit Avenue

Conduit Avenue (Conduit Boulevard in Brooklyn) is an arterial road in New York City, the vast majority of which is in Queens.

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Courthouse News Service

Courthouse News Service is an American news service primarily focusing on civil litigation.

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David Bergman (American writer)

David Bergman (born 1950) is an American writer and English professor at Towson University, in Towson, Maryland part of the University System of Maryland.

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David Greenglass

David Greenglass (March 2, 1922 – July 1, 2014) was an American machinist who worked on the Manhattan Project and served as an atomic spy for the Soviet Union.

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Dean Alvord

Dean Alvord (December 4, 1856 – April 18, 1941) was an American real estate developer, college professor, and philanthropist known for his real estate developments in the New York City Metropolitan Area and in Florida.

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Department of Central Eurasian Studies (Indiana University)

The Department of Central Eurasian Studies, often abbreviated as CEUS, is a specialized academic department in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Derrick Harmon

Derrick Todd Harmon (born April 26, 1963) is a former professional American football player who played running back for the San Francisco 49ers from 1984 to 1986.

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Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

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Doron Lamb

Doron Emmanuel Calvin Lamb (born November 6, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for UEB Gesteco Cividale of the Serie A2.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Elliot Sperling

Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 29, 2017) was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations, and a MacArthur Fellow.

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Endocrinology

Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.

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Far Rockaway Branch

The Far Rockaway Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Francis Lewis Boulevard

Francis Lewis Boulevard is a boulevard in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Georgetown University Press

Georgetown University Press is a university press affiliated with Georgetown University that publishes about forty new books a year.

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Greenway (landscape)

A greenway is usually a shared-use path along a strip of undeveloped land, in an urban or rural area, set aside for recreational use or environmental protection.

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Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones (née Cohen; born in 1934) is an American poet.

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Human biology

Human biology is an interdisciplinary area of academic study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics, and sociocultural influences.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Irving Mosberg

Irving Mosberg (May 6, 1908 – April 25, 1973) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

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Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jewish Defense League

The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right religious and political organization in the United States and Canada.

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Joel Brind

Joel Lewis Brind is a professor of human biology and endocrinology at Baruch College, City University of New York and a leading advocate of the abortion-breast cancer hypothesis, which posits that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.

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Laurelton station

Laurelton is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch, located at the intersection of 225th Street and 141st Road in the Laurelton neighborhood of Queens, New York City.

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Lega Basket Serie A

The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) is a professional men's club basketball league that has been organised in Italy since 1920.

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List of counties in New York

There are 62 counties in the U.S. state of New York.

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List of municipalities in New York

This is a list of municipalities in New York other than towns, which includes all 533 villages and 62 cities of New York.

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List of Queens neighborhoods

This is a list of neighborhoods in Queens.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Long Beach Branch

The Long Beach Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Machinist

A machinist is a tradesperson or trained professional who operates machine tools, and has the ability to set up tools such as milling machines, grinders, lathes, and drilling machines.

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Main Source

Main Source was a Canadian and American East Coast hip hop group based in New York City/Toronto, composed of Toronto-born DJs and producers, K-Cut and Sir Scratch, Queens DJ J.O.D and Queens MC and producer Large Professor.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.

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Marcus Jansen

Marcus Antonius Jansen (born 1968) is an American painter.

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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.

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Meir Kahane

Meir David HaKohen Kahane (רבי מאיר דוד הכהן כהנא; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset before being convicted of acts of terrorism.

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Merrick Road

Merrick Road is an east–west urban arterial in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in New York, United States.

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Mikey D

Michael Anthony Deering (born November 25, 1967), known by his stage name Mikey D, is an American rapper.

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MTA Regional Bus Operations

MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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Nasdaq

The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neil Leifer

Neil Leifer (born December 28, 1942) is an American sports photographer and filmmaker known mainly for his work in the Time Inc. family of magazines.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York Jets

The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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New York State Senate

The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature, while the New York State Assembly is its lower house.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States.

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Queens

Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Queens Community Board 13 is a local government in the New York City borough of Queens, encompassing the neighborhoods of Queens Village, Glen Oaks, Bellerose, Cambria Heights, Laurelton, Rosedale, Meadowmere, Floral Park and Brookville.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Ronnie Harmon

Ronnie Keith Harmon (born May 7, 1964) is an American former professional football player who was a running back for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) from 1986 to 1997.

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Rosedale, Queens

Rosedale is a neighborhood in New York City in the southeastern portion of the borough of Queens.

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Ruth Madoff

Ruth Madoff (Alpern; born May 18, 1941) is an American former bookkeeper and the widow of Bernie Madoff, the convicted American financial fraudster who served a prison sentence for a criminal financial scheme until his death in April 2021.

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Sam DeLuca

Saverio Frank "Sam" DeLuca (May 2, 1936 – September 13, 2011) was an American Professional Football offensive lineman in the American Football League (AFL) and later a radio and television football coverage broadcaster.

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San Diego Chargers

The San Diego Chargers were a professional American football team in the National Football League (NFL).

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San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Scafati Basket

Scafati Basket, known for sponsorship reasons as Givova Scafati, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Scafati, Campania.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Springfield Boulevard

Springfield Boulevard is a major north/south roadway that runs through the eastern section of Queens, New York.

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Springfield Gardens, Queens

Springfield Gardens is a neighborhood in the southeastern area of the New York City borough of Queens, bounded to the north by St. Albans, to the east by Laurelton and Rosedale, to the south by John F. Kennedy International Airport, and to the west by Farmers Boulevard.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurelton,_Queens

Also known as Laurelton, NY, Laurelton, New York.

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