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February 14: After being awarded one of the two new headquarter locations for Amazon, the company announced it was withdrawing its plans to establish a presence in Long Island City, and with this withdrawal the prospect of 25,000 new jobs.
January 4: Nurse Sandra Lindsay, received her second and final dosage of a EUA approved COVID-19 vaccine.[29] With the second dosage, she is expected to have a 95% immunity to COVID-19.[29]
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published in the 19th century
Franklin B. Hough (1872), "Queens County", Gazetteer of the State of New York, Albany, N.Y: Andrew Boyd, OCLC 18450990 – via Internet Archive
History of Queens County, New York. Munsell. 1882.
Trow's Business Directory of the Borough of Queens. NY: Trow. 1899. + Register
Claudia Gryvatz Copquin (2007). The Neighborhoods of Queens. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11299-3.
Brendan McGovern and John W. Frazier (2015). "Evolving Ethnic Settlements in Queens: Historical and Current Forces Reshaping Human Geography". Focus on Geography (58).
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queens, New York City.
"Timeline of Queens History". Queens Historical Society.