The Queens Community Board 8 is a local government in the
New York City
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borough
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History
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of
Queens
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, encompassing the
neighborhoods
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of
Briarwood, Cunningham Heights,
Flushing South,
Fresh Meadows,
Hillcrest, Hilltop Village,
Holliswood,
Jamaica Estates,
Jamaica Hills,
Kew Gardens Hills,
Pomonok, and
Utopia
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. It is delimited by the
Long Island Expressway
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Measurement
* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
* Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate
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to
Hillside Avenue Hillside may refer to the side of a hill.
Places Australia
*Hillside mine, a proposed mine on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
*Hillside, New South Wales
*Hillside, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
Canada
*Hillside, Nova Scotia
United Kingd ...
and from the
Van Wyck Expressway
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to the
Clearview Expressway Clearview or clear view may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Clearview'' (album), the seventh studio album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall
Companies
* Clearview AI, a facial recognition company
* Clearview Cinemas, a chain of movie the ...
.
Who does CB8 Queens represent?
, Queens Community Board 8. Accessed September 6, 2007.
References
External links
Queens Community Board 8Profile of the Community Board
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Community boards of Queens
Briarwood, Queens