Rego Park, Queens Rego Park Jewish Center Rego Park Jewish Center Map of New York City Map of New York City - Rego Park Rego Park is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City.
Rego Park is bordered to the north by Elmhurst and Corona, the east and south by Forest Hills and the west by Middle Village.
Rego Park's boundaries include Queens Boulevard, the Long Island Expressway, Woodhaven Boulevard, and Yellowstone Boulevard.
Rego Park is represented by Queens Community Board 6 (CB 6). The settlement was retitled Rego Park after the Real Good Construction Company, which began evolution of the region in 1925. "Rego" comes from the first two letters of the first two words of the company's name.
Stores were assembled in 1926 on Queens Boulevard and 63rd Drive, and apartment buildings were assembled in 1927 1928. In 1930, the Independent Subway System began work on eight IND Queens Boulevard Line stations in the area, at a cost of $5 million.
The short block of 63rd Drive between Austin Street and the Long Island Railroad overpass was the scene of a fire in February 1972 that claimed a row of stores and the neighborhood library. The blistering "Rego Park Inferno" reportedly started in the second store on the block from Austin Street, a shoe store, and quickly spread with the gusting winds to neighboring stores, including a tv repair shop, toy store, pet shop and a pioneering Indian restaurant, and finally, the library, where row upon row of oily books and wooden shelves sent flames high into the sky and up the embankment of the barns .
After the fire, until the new library was built, the improve was served by a mobile "Bookmobile" library which parked under the LIRR tracks on 63rd Drive. A similar fire had decimated the same block in 1959. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the populace of Rego Park was 28,260, a decline of 1,144 (3.9%) from the 29,404 counted in 2000.
Like its neighbor Forest Hills, Rego Park has long had a momentous Jewish population, most of which have Georgian and Russian Jewish ancestors, with a number of Jewish churchs and kosher restaurants.
Many Holocaust survivors settled in Rego Park after 1945.
In the 1990s, Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, especially from Central Asia, moved in. Most of the inhabitants are Bukharan Jewish, and the effect of life in the Soviet Union on the populace has led Rego Park to have a Russian feel with many signs in Russian Cyrillic.
Most of the Bukharan Jewish immigrants in the neighborhood come from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and there is also Uzbek and Tajik cuisine in many Rego Park restaurants. Many apartment buildings, multi-family, and barns homes make up the north side of Rego Park.
Rego Park is home to some of Queens' most prominent shopping destinations, including the 277,000-square-foot (25,700 m2), 4-floor Rego Center.
Phase II opened in 2010 with 950,000 square feet (88,000 m2) of retail space on 62nd Drive athwart from Rego Park Center.
Across the Long Island Expressway, in close-by Elmhurst, is the Queens Center Mall. Queens Center opened on September 12, 1973, on territory previously occupied by Fairyland, a supermarket, and automobile parking.
The chief company thoroughfare of Rego Park is 63rd Drive.
The chief section extends from Woodhaven Boulevard in the south, to Queens Boulevard in the north, with the central company precinct of Rego Park nestled between Alderton Street (just south of the Long Island Rail Road overpass), and Queens Boulevard.
The company precinct is anchored by The Rego Park School PS 139 - Q, an elementary school dating from 1928 and Our Saviour Lutheran Church established in 1926 which right athwart Wetherole Street from PS 139 - Q.
Across Queens Boulevard to the north, 63rd Drive becomes 63rd Road, and its company precinct continues another three blocks; 63rd Drive actually shifts one block south of 63rd Road.
It was taken over as a improve center by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in 1960, and is still directed as such. While the VFW maintains its offices at the building, the American Legion left in 1962.
The site also contains a play region and a New York City Department of Environmental Protection water pumping station. The art deco Rego Park Jewish Center, opened in 1939, is notable for an A.
After small-town furor over interior refurbishment, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was considering landmarking the property. The theater, which closed in 2009, was repurposed into a Jewish house of worship for more than a decade, but in 2013, the Jewish church's congregation objected to their new landlord's prepared eviction of the Jewish church.
63rd Drive in Rego Park (August 2016) Harding (1863 1929), a finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New York Municipal Railways System; Harding encouraged town/city planner Robert Moses's fitness of parkways on New York, and after Harding died, the boulevard and later, service road to Interstate 495 was retitled after him. Queens Boulevard, a wide at-grade highway that stretches from Long Island City to Jamaica, was formerly composed of two small dirt roads: Old Jamaica Road and Hoffman Boulevard.
Rego Park Group, originally hosted on Yahoo! Groups, strived to grade the character of life in the neighborhood. The Rego Park Green Alliance has also been active in the improve planting flowers and trees, arranging the installation of new garbage cans, pushing for the repair of some sidewalks and creating a large mural celebrating the neighborhood under the LIRR overpass on 63rd Drive. In March 2010, the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation of New York, partnered with Masbia in the opening of a kosher soup kitchen on Queens Boulevard.
Its goal is to try to convert the abandoned Rockaway Beach rail line in Rego Park into a park, similar to the High Line in Manhattan.
The neighborhood is served by the New York City Police Department's 112th Precinct. In 2014, the precinct had 7 rapes, 57 robberies, 60 felony assaults, 114 burglaries, 412 grand larcenies, and 102 grand larcenies auto.
Rego Park's enhance schools, as are the enhance schools in all of New York City, are directed by the New York City Department of Education.
The following elementary schools serve Rego Park: 139 (Rego Park School, grades K-5) All areas in Rego Park are zoned to J.H.S.
190 Russell Sage (7-9) in Forest Hills. Rego Park is not zoned to a high school because all New York City high schools get students by application, though Forest Hills High School is positioned in close-by Forest Hills.
Our Lady of the Angelus, a PK 8 private school directed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, is positioned in Rego Park.
Resurrection-Ascension School, another PK-8 private school directed by the Diocese of Brooklyn, is also positioned in Rego Park.
Private establishments include the Rego Park Jewish Center and the Jewish Institute of Queens (also known as the Queens Gymnasia).
The Queens Library's Rego Park branch The Rego Park Library Branch of Queens Library, is positioned at 91-41 63rd Drive in Rego Park. As of 2010, the total annual circulation was 382,545 volumes, which is the highest number of volumes compared to two other libraries in Queens Community District 6, Forest Hills and North Forest Park libraries.
The Long Island Rail Road overpass between Austin and Alderton Streets was the locale of the Rego Park station until its abandonment in 1962.
The IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway has small-town stations at 63rd Drive and 67th Avenue on the E M R trains. The line, running under Queens Boulevard, dates from 1935-37. Rego Park was the setting of the 1980s sitcom Dear John, which centered around the fictional "Rego Park Community Center." The CBS sitcom The King of Queens is set in Rego Park, and sometimes shows clips of the area.
The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street was filmed in part in Rego Park, at the Shalimar Diner.
In an episode of General Hospital originally aired on May 26, 2015, Denise, an emerging character, claims that she's from Rego Park.
Notable current and former inhabitants of Rego Park include: Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic artist who made Rego Park the setting for momentous scenes involving his aged father in Maus, his graphic novel about the Holocaust a b Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012.
Table PL-P3 - A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011.
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(1995), The Encyclopedia of New York City, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0300 - 055366 a b "Tale of 2 Libraries: Rego Park Edition".
"New Residences, Proposed Queens - Way Advance in Rego Park, Queens".
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"Conservancy holds exclusive tour of historic Queens Synagogues", New York Landmarks Conservancy website.
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"PWA Party Views New Subway Link: Queens Section to Be Opened Tomorrow Is Inspected by Tuttle and Others".
"REGO PARK'S IN TIME OF TRANSITION Growing biz & range", New York Daily News, August 18, 2002.
"Rosco Gordon, a rhythm-and-blues singer and piano player from Memphis who influenced modern 'n' roll and reggae, died on July 11 at his home in Rego Park, Queens." "Her mother once introduced herself and June Havoc to a gangster after a dawn bringy of stolen furniture to her Rego Park, N.Y., apartment saying, 'I am the mother of Gypsy Rose Lee.
He spent his younger years in Briarwood before moving on to Forest Hills, and finally settling down in Rego Park for the duration of his teen years." "Rego Park was predominately Jewish, and most of the bullying had no ethnic edge." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rego Park, Queens.
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