Crossword clues for queens
queens
- Where Run-DMC hailed from
- Valuable chess pieces
- Setting of the Unisphere
- Part of N. Y. City
- Nova Scotia county
- In chess, they're men
- Home to Arthur Ashe Stadium
- He said _____ County, Prince Edward Island
- Flushing spot
- Fair pair in poker
- Elizabeth II and Victoria
- County name ( In NB. PEI, and NS)
- Brooklyn neighbor
- Borough for JFK Airport
- Anne and Mary
- A borough of New York City
- Part of the Big Apple
- Part of N.Y.C.
- Enquires about missing one rook and other pieces
- New York borough
- Part of N.Y.C
- Ontario university
- Important chess pieces
- Prince Akeem's destination, in "Coming to America"
- Powerful chess pieces
- New York City borough
- New Brunswick county
- Mary I and Elizabeth I
- Citi Field's borough
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
New York City borough, named for Catherine of Braganza, queen of English King Charles II.
Wiktionary
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 817250
Land area (2000): 109.235205 sq. miles (282.917871 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 69.043668 sq. miles (178.822272 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 178.278873 sq. miles (461.740143 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.714295 N, 73.820376 W
Headwords:
Queens, NY
Queens County
Queens County, NY
Wikipedia
Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City. It is geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the southwestern end of Long Island, and to Nassau County further east on Long Island; in addition, Queens shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. Coterminous with Queens County since 1899, the borough of Queens is the second-largest in population (after Brooklyn), with a census-estimated 2,339,150 residents in 2015, approximately 48% of them foreign-born. Queens County is also the second-most populous county in the U.S. state of New York, behind the neighboring borough of Brooklyn, which is coterminous with Kings County. Queens is the fourth-most densely populated county among New York City's boroughs, as well as in the United States. If each New York City borough were an independent city, Queens would also be the nation's fourth most populous city, after Los Angeles, Chicago, and Brooklyn. Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world.
Queens was established in 1683, as one of the original 12 counties of New York and was named for the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. It became a borough of New York City in 1898, and from 1683 until 1899, the County of Queens included what is now Nassau County.
Queens has the most diversified economy of the five boroughs of New York City and is home to JFK International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. These airports are among the busiest in the world, causing the airspace above Queens to be the most congested in the country. Attractions in Queens include Flushing Meadows Park — whose Citi Field athletic stadium is home to the New York Mets baseball team — and the US Open tennis tournament; as well as Kaufman Astoria Studios, Silvercup Studios, and Aqueduct Racetrack. The borough has diverse housing, ranging from high-rise apartment buildings in the urban areas of western and central Queens, such as Jackson Heights, Flushing, Astoria, and Long Island City, to suburban neighborhoods in the eastern part of the borough such as Little Neck, Douglaston, and Bayside.
Queens was a federal electoral district in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1896.
It was created by the British North America Act, 1867. It consisted of the County of Queen's. It was abolished in 1892 when it was merged into Shelburne and Queen's riding.
Queens is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1867-2013. It elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the entirety of Queens County.
The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Queens-Shelburne.
Queens is a 2005 film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira.
The story follows a group of men who will be marrying in Spain's first same-sex wedding ceremony, and their mothers, who will be attending.
Queens is a novel, written in 1984 by an author under the apparent pseudonym "Pickles," which describes gay life in London. The author was Stephen Pickles, who at the time was working as an editor at Quartet Books, the publisher of the novel, with responsibility for its Encounters series.
The Queens Cocktail is a variant on the Perfect Martini, with the addition of pineapple juice and sometimes lemon juice. Its closest relative is the more popular Bronx, which contains orange juice rather than pineapple.
It can be found as early as 1930, in Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book; Craddock's text, however, lists it as a "Queen's Cocktail."
Queens was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.
Queens is a Polish girl trio formed in February 2005 by Polish Music Agency. The group is one of the best known girl bands in Poland. After scoring a minor success with their debut album, the group started touring, but illnesses caused several shows to be cancelled. The group was then recast, with only Monika Niedek retained from the original members. The new lineup's first single, "We Are The Queens", was finally released in early 2007, but the song didn't gain much success. A bit later, when the video was recorded, Queens did a short promotional campaign and finally decided to take a short break. After the break, both the whole group and the Polish Music Agency decided to remix and re-release the last single. East Clubbers have mixed the song in 5 different versions. The re-released single also includes a song "Piękne Chwile" (Beautiful Moments), which was the Polish-language version of "We're The Queens".
Queens is a borough of New York City.
Queens or queen's may also refer to:
In geography:
- Region of Queens Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Queens (electoral district), various Canadian districts
- Queens County (disambiguation)
- Queens, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Queen's Pier, a demolished public ceremonial pier in Hong Kong
In education:
- Queen's University Belfast, a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Queen's University, a research intensive university based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Queens University of Charlotte, a private university located in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Queen's College (disambiguation), including Queens College
In arts and entertainment:
- Queen's Theatre (disambiguation)
- Queens (group), a Polish musical group
- Queens (novel), a 1984 novel about gay life in London by Pickles (a pseudonym)
- Queens (film), a 2005 film by Spanish director Manuel Gomez Pereira
- Queen's (TV series), a Taiwanese TV show based on the Korean comic book series by Ha Sung-Hyen
In sports:
- Queen's Club, a tennis club in West London, England
- Queen's Club Championships, annual professional tennis tournament
- Queen of the South F.C., a football team in Dumfries, Scotland, whose name is often colloquially shortened to Queens
Other uses:
- Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
- Queen's Hospital, Romford, Greater London, England
- The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Queens Liberation Front, a transvestite rights advocacy organization in New York City formed in 1969 and active in the 1970s, founded as Queens
Usage examples of "queens".
It was a pity, she had said to her Maries, that their mothers had not been queens, for it would have been fun to have a large family living about her even though she was so much younger.
It is a powerful combination, becoming more so over time as the quality of Earthly civilisation slowly improved and as the new queens brought dowries of wider knowledge.
Do you know -- and this is no persuasive lie -- even when hundreds of women were available for testing, Ty has never found two plausible queens at the same time!
When other queens departed, they generally took much of their courts with them.
In the long run, aside from queens, there are two kinds of women who experience Joy Hall: those who return to Earth and assume normal lives and those who remain in Joy Hall until they succumb to brain death.
She is queen of the country where new Chatterford shall stand, but as queens go she is far from cruel.
Certainly the queens have all been superbly intelligent women, though unremarkable in other ways.
Some Queens have to marry men old enough to be their grandfathers and others have to marry those young enough to be their children.
To James Hepburn Queens were women, and he had yet to meet the woman who had been able to show an indifference to him.
They walked solemnly out of the chamber of death- the widowed Queens side by side.
He was off again, explaining that God asked kings and queens to be as foster parents to the Church.
That is the place for sinners such as she is, be they queens or commoners.
He tried mind over matter and went through the Kings and Queens of England since the year 802: Egbert, Ethelwulf, Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred, Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Athelstan, Edmund I, Edred, Edwy, Edgar, Edward II the Martyr but he gave up on the Saxons and Danes, unable to remember whether Harold Harefoot ruled alone or jointly with Hardicanute in 1037.
If I had informed my maid of this mishap, I should have been unable to wear it again, for custom, I believe, forbids queens to wear mended dresses.
I know that my daughter will be Queen of England and she will be one of the finest queens that ever reigned.