Ozone Park
Ozone Park is a neighborhood (neighborhood) in New York City district ( borough ) Queens . It is considered an upper middle class district.
geography
Ozone Park is located in southwest Queens borough and is bordered by Woodhaven , Richmond Hill , South Ozone Park , Howard Beach (all in Queens) and East New York and City Line (in Brooklyn ). The northern boundary is Atlantic Avenue , the southern boundary is Conduit Avenue, and 108th Street is the eastern boundary. The western border with Brooklyn is essentially defined by Ruby and Drew Street. In Ozone Park is the Aqueduct Racetrack , a horse racing track.
history
The Centerville district was founded in 1840 . During the economic downturn in the 1870s, Manhattan and Brooklyn residents sought cheaper housing. This was created by the builders Benjamin W. Hitchcock and Charles C. Denton, who turned farmland into residential land. In 1882 they created Ozone Park. The name should be reminiscent of the fresh air of the Atlantic Ocean . In 1894 the Aqueduct Racetrack was opened. The area was enormously developed with the rail link to Liberty Avenue in 1914. Between the 1920s and 1930s, the building program was greatly developed.
Demographics
Since its inception, Ozone Park has been characterized by a multi-ethnic composition. First came French, later German and Irish immigrants. The heavy influx of Italians, which led to the nickname Little Italy of Queens (a reference to Little Italy Manhattan), occurred at the beginning of the 20th century. Most of the Italians and Italian-Americans were from Brooklyn. Polish immigrants also came. At the beginning of the new millennium, more immigrants came from Latin America and South Asia ( Bangladesh ).
In art
Feature films
- A Bronx Tale (1993) shows a scene in the Aqueduct Racetrack
- A Shock to the System (1990) shows a scene in the Aqueduct Racetrack
- Boss of Bosses (2001, with Chazz Palminteri ) shows a scene with John Gotti in Ozone Park.
- Goodfellas (1990) is set in Ozone Park
- Lucky Number Slevin (2006) shows a scene of father and son in the Aqueduct Racetrack
TV Shows
- Getting Gotti (1994) With Lorraine Bracco in the lead role: The film describes the prosecution of John Gotti, who developed his power in the streets of Ozone Park.
- The King Of Queens : Scenes take place in the old United Artists Cross Bay cinema on Rockaway Boulevard
- The Lufthansa robbery is portrayed in the History Channel's Perfect Crimes series .
- The Sopranos : The character Rusty Millio (played by Frankie Valli ) lives in Ozone Park
additional
- John Paul II celebrated a mass for 75,000 people at the Ozone Park Aqueduct Racetrack in October 1995.
schools
' Public schools'
- PS 63 Old South School
- PS 64 Joseph P. Addabbo School
- PS 65 The Raymond York Elementary School
- Middle School 137 America's School Heroes
- Junior High School 202 RH Goddard
- Robert H Goddard High School Of Technology and Communications 308
- Junior High School 210 Elizabeth Blackwell
- John Adams High School
- High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture
' Private schools'
- St Elizabeth's RC Elementary
- St Mary Gate of Heaven RC Elementary
- Divine Mercy Catholic Academy (formerly Nativity BVM and St. Stanislaus Schools, both merged in 2007 and changed their current name)
- Little Dolphin Pre-School
- Our Lady of Perpetual Hope
- Our Lady's Catholic Academy
' Former Schools'
- Our Lady of Wisdom RC Secondary
traffic
The district is crossed by Rockaway and Woodhaven Boulevard . There are freeway connections to the Southern Parkway and the Nassau Expressway ( NY 878 ). The IND Fulton Street Line crosses the district from west to east, in the middle of which the IND Rockaway Line branches off to the south. The metro line 
serves several stations along these two routes.
Famous pepole
- Ray Abruzzo (born 1954), actor ( The Sopranos )
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo (1925–1986), Congressman
- Pedro Beato , pitcher for the New York Mets
- Charles Camarda (* 1952), astronaut
- Gerald Edelman (1929–2014), medic, in 1972 he won the Nobel Prize.
- Peter Facinelli (* 1973), actor
- Diane Giacalone , prosecutor
- John Gotti (1940-2002), Mafia boss (head of the Gambino family )
- Neal Heaton (* 1960), MLB baseball pitcher
- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), writer
- Cyndi Lauper (* 1953), singer
- Anthony Trentacosta , Gambino family gangster
- Debra Wilson (born 1962), actress
Web links
- Ozone Park Mafia Graveyard
- Gaussie Humann trial, Ozone Park, 1921
- Diane Giacalone, from the neighborhood.
- Jack Kerouac, Wizard of Ozone Park.
- Ozone Park gang, Queens Chronicle
See also
Coordinates: 40 ° 40 ′ 48 " N , 73 ° 50 ′ 42" W.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2008 Map of Queens neighborhoods . Archived from the original on July 31, 2008. Retrieved September 1, 2010.
- ↑ NYC Community Boards (pdf; 7.6 MB) Archived from the original on March 6, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
- ↑ Bob Liff: WHERE CITY DREW THE LINE DOUBLE LIVES THE NORM IN BORDER HUB . New York Daily News. April 27, 1999. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
- ↑ If You're Thinking of Living In / Ozone Park; Changing Faces, Enduring Values , The New York Times , October 5, 2003.
- ^ Ozone Park: Changing faces - Article from NY Times
- ↑ Article in the New York Times (English)
- ↑ Gerald Edelman - 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Israel High-Tech Magazine , July 1, 2005.
- ^ Attorney Diane Giacalone, from the neighborhood., Time , September 29, 1986.
- ↑ 'Dapper Don' John Gotti dead: Brought down by the Bull , CNN.com , June 11, 2002.
- ^ The Wizard of Ozone Park . Retrieved March 13, 2011.
- ↑ Hoffman, Jan. “PUBLIC LIVES; She just wanted to have fun. And She's Having It. " , The New York Times , December 31, 2003. Accessed October 10, 2007
