Auburndale is an upper-middle-class neighborhood in the northern part of the

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, between Bayside and Murray Hill. The name comes from

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, the home of L. H. Green who developed the community starting in 1901, when the

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(LIRR) started offering train service to the area. Today, the Auburndale station on the LIRR's

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continues to provide regular service to and from

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. Auburndale is located in Queens Community District 11 and its ZIP Code is 11358. It is patrolled by the

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's 111th Precinct.

Demographics

Based on data from the

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, the population of Auburndale was 19,996, a decrease of 205 (1.0%) from the 20,201 counted in

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. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of .Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division -

Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 44.8% (8,954)

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, 1.0% (209)

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, 0.1% (12) Native American, 40.9% (8,169) Asian, 0.0% ()

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, 0.1% (25) from other races, and 1.4% (284) from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 11.7% (2,343) of the population.Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division -

Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.

Architecture

The most common style of house in Auburndale is the Tudor. The Auburndale Improvement Association, along with other groups, seeks "to preserve the neighborhood’s small-scale, lawns-and-driveways character, which in some respects seems to have more in common with nearby suburban Nassau County than New York." Along with Tudors, capacious Dutch colonials and Cape Cod houses also abound. Home prices range from $499,000 to roughly $1.5 million, averaging at around $650,000.

Education

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operates Auburndale's public schools. Francis Lewis High School is the largest public high school in the neighborhood.

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operates the Auburndale Branch at 25-55 Francis Lewis Boulevard.

Transportation

Auburndale's highways include the Clearview Expressway (I-295) and the Long Island Expressway (I-495). Auburndale is connected to

, northern Queens and

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by the Auburndale station, one of a few express stations on the

. The

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's serves nearby Flushing at Flushing–Main Street station.

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's local routes, and the express route. The Nassau Inter-County Express' route also serves Auburndale.

References

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