Hillcrest, Queens

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Union Turnpike in Hillcrest, Queens NY.

Hillcrest is a small middle class residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is located between Flushing and Jamaica Hills.^[1] Its name derives from its location on the hills between Jamaica and Flushing. The neighborhood runs from Union Turnpike to the LIE, between Utopia Parkway and 164th Street. Union Turnpike is its main commercial strip. It is part of Queens Community Board 8. The ZIP Codes for this neighborhood are, 11365, 11366 and parts of 11432. It neighbors Jamaica Hills to the south, Briarwood and Kew Gardens Hills to the west, Pomonok and Utopia to the north, and Utopia and Jamaica Estates to the east.

Hillcrest is home to a very large Orthodox Jewish Community.

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Arverne Astoria Astoria Heights Auburndale Bayside Bayswater Bay Terrace Beechhurst Bellaire Belle Harbor Bellerose Blissville Boulevard Gardens Breezy Point Briarwood Broad Channel Broadway-Flushing Cambria Heights College Point Corona Ditmars Douglaston Dutch Kills East Elmhurst Edgemere Electchester Elmhurst Far Rockaway Floral Park Flushing Flushing Chinatown Forest Hills Forest Hills Gardens Fresh Meadows Fresh Pond Glendale Glen Oaks Hamilton Beach Hammels Hillcrest Hollis Hollis Hills Holliswood Howard Beach Howard Park Hunters Point Jackson Heights Jamaica Jamaica Estates Jamaica Hills Kew Gardens Kew Gardens Hills Laurelton LeFrak City Linden Hill Lindenwood Little Neck Locust Manor Long Island City Malba Maspeth Meadowmere Middle Village Murray Hill Neponsit North Corona North Shore Towers Oakland Gardens Old Howard Beach Ozone Park Pomonok Queensboro Hill Queensbridge Queens Village Ramblersville Ravenswood Rego Park Richmond Hill Ridgewood Rochdale Rockaway Rockaway Beach Rockaway Park Rockwood Park Rosedale Roxbury St. Albans Seaside South Jamaica South Ozone Park Springfield Gardens Sunnyside Sunnyside Gardens Tudor Village Utopia Warnerville Whitestone Willets Point Woodhaven Woodside Wyckoff Heights

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