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The Community of Queens Village was first established in the year of 1856. This little community goes back all the way to the 1600s even before this country became a country. The area was colonized in the 1640’s and was known as Little Plains because it was a place where cattle would graze the land. In the 1700’s a village was established where farms where forming. In the years of 1824-1834, the name of the city had changed to Brushville, named for Thomas Brush who opened a very prosperous black smith shop. Then, in 1834, when the Railroad arrived and the first station was established, they had decided to rename the city to Queens. Later, the Long Island Rail Road had added “Village” to the name thus the final name of Queens Village still exists today.

Queens Village today is a multicultural community with people of all types of ethnicities from Japanese to Hispanic, Jamaican to German, and African American to Pakistani. Of these residents are many World War II veterans who settled down after the war. There was a big housing boom in the 1920’s in Queens Village that attracted many people to move into the neighborhood. Many houses of that period still stand today and are renovated to keep up with modern technology such as insulation and heat capturing windows. This somewhat “average” size community is mostly made up of middle to high middle class families. Queens Village has a huge variety of churches that have been around for decades and some for centuries. Although, an “old” city it is still being industrialized and modernized. With the building of a new school that just opened and many new stores being developed, it has been growing to fit the needs of the residents of Queens Village.