40°40′30″N73°45′53″W / 40.67500°N 73.76472°W /40.67500; -73.76472Locust Manor is a neighborhood in theNew York Cityborough ofQueens. It is bordered on the north by Baisley Boulevard to Irwin Place to Roe Road to 120th Avenue, on the east by the tracks of theLong Island Rail Road to 121st Avenue to Farmers Boulevard, on the south by NorthConduit Boulevard, and on the west by Guy R. Brewer Boulevard to 137th Avenue to 173rd Street to 134th Road to Bedell Street.[1]: 102 Nearby neighborhoods includeJamaica,South Jamaica, andRochdale Village. Locust Manor, which was named after a 1906 residential development in the area,[2] was formerly the location of theJamaica Race Course, which operated from 1903 to 1959, and was torn down in 1960 in order to construct Rochdale Village.
Locust Manor is a "quiet residential neighborhood"[1]: 104 which is home to a predominantlyAfrican American andAfro-Caribbean constituency of middle-class income. Locust Manor Estates, on 172nd Street and Baisley Boulevard, is a state-subsidized residential complex of two- and three-family homes, cooperative apartments and senior-living units, subsidized through the New York City Housing Partnership.[3]
The neighborhood is served by theLocust Manor station on theLong Island Rail Road, located at Farmers Boulevard and Bedell Street, which offers service toManhattan by both theFar Rockaway andLong Beach branches.
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