REAL ESTATE WEBSITE REIMAGINES THE NAMES OF QUEENS STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS BY ANGELA MATUA amatua@qns.com/@AngelaMatua Do you ever wonder about the origin of your street’s name? Real estate research site NeighborhoodX has compiled a map of streets and neighborhoods throughout the fi ve boroughs and renamed them after celebrities, television shows and products. A handful of Queens streets and neighborhoods are renamed on the map including Queens (of the Stone Age) Boulevard and (Michael) Jackson Heights. “Since no one seems to know history anymore, we renamed NYC places for celebrities and products,” Sales in Queens HOMES – CO-OPS – CONDOS Listings and photos courtesy MLSLI NORTHWEST NORTHEAST SOUTHWEST SOUTHEAST CORONA FLUSHING MIDDLE VILLAGE PICTURED LISTING Inset photo via itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/Photo via Wikimedia Commons JAMAICA Under $500,000 41-30 46th St., Sunnyside $400,000 Co-op 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom Helen Keit Keller Williams Realty Landmark $500,000-900,000 47-38 99th St., Corona $539,000 1-family townhouse 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms Martin Freiman Redfi n Real Estate Over $900,000 38-12 31st St., Long Island City $2,189,000 1-family home 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Pongpan Reungjantrarit RE/MAX Team Under $500,000 54-44 Little Neck Pkwy., Little Neck $215,000 Co-op 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom Ellen Vestrich VENUE Real Estate Group $500,000-900,000 166-25 Powells Cove Blvd., Beechhurst $848,000 Co-op 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Sheryl Fine Century 21 Bay Benjamin Over $900,000 30-19 Murray St., Flushing $1,298,000 1-family home 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms Gracene Gardella Coldwell Banker Residential Under $500,000 1980 Starr St., Ridgewood $449,000 Condo 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom Margaret Klusek Keller Williams Landmark II $500,000-900,000 53-28 66th St., Maspeth $650,000 1-family colonial 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Lucy Lu Landmark International R E LLC Over $900,000 63-46 84th St., Middle Village $998,000 1-family home 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Boris Barayev Dom Realty of NY Inc. Under $500,000 169-19 Linden Blvd., Jamaica $449,000 1-family home 3 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Jeewan Persaud Crossroads Properties $500,000-900,000 88-23 241st St., Bellerose $610,000 1-family home 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Lalit Bhatia Cross Island Realty One Inc. Over $900,000 201-16 Epsom Crescent, Jamaica Estates $1,150,000 1-family home 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms Robert Hakimian Fox 21 the website reads. Sunnyside is reimagined as the television comedy (It’s Always) Sunnyside (In Philadelphia) and Eliot Avenue in Middle Village pays homage to late playwright T.S. Eliot. Flushing Meadows Park was renamed Flushing Meadow (Soprano) after Tony and Carmela Soprano’s daughter on the HBO show. Actor Kirk Douglas also gets a spot on the map in the Douglaston neighborhood of Queens. Long Island City’s Borden Avenue received a grim new name, (Lizzie) Borden Avenue after the woman who was tried and acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Mass. Inset photo via itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/Photo via Wikimedia Commons
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