Nassau County used to be part of Queens County before Queens became part of New York City. Some cities cannot yet decide which county to be in. Here are three Queens neighborhoods that take you to beautiful boroughs, without the ugly taxes, and they also share names with adjacent neighborhoods across the Nassau County border. In other words, there are two New Hyde Parks, three Belleroses, and a few Flower Parks.
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Floral Park, Queens
The neighborhood of most single-family homes developed rapidly for WWII veterans in the 1940s. Now, more than a third of the city’s population is foreign-born, nearly half from India. Indian shops and restaurants line Hillside Avenue a few blocks east of Little Neck Parkway. Taxes are less than a third of those found in Nassau County’s Floral Park Village, and local public schools (in Bellerose and Glen Oaks) are well regarded. Floral Park, Queens, shares the 11004 zip code with Glen Oaks, but the two neighborhoods are different.
Floral Park, Nassau County
Includes: Floral Park, Floral Park Village and South Floral Park.
This neighborhood is not ashamed of the name, even the streets are named after flowers and trees, unlike the numbered streets of Queens. The main street is Tulip Avenue, where the Floral Park train station is located. The houses tend to be older, pre-WWII. On Jericho Avenue, the transition between Nassau and Queens is seamless, except for the street names.
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Bellerose
Bellerose, Queens
The New York Times has called this neighborhood, which is also known as Bellerose Manor, the »ideal mix of suburb and city«. Boundaries: Little Neck Pkwy to the east, Grand Central Pkwy to the west, the Creedmoor State Hospital grounds to the north, and Braddock and Jamaica Aves to the south.
Bellerose, Nassau County
Includes: Bellerose Village and Bellerose Terrace
Bellerose Terrace is a small hamlet near Cross Island Parkway (between 225th St and Colonial Rd, and Jamaica / Jericho Ave to Superior Rd). The home lots are tight, more like the Queens side.
Bellerose Village, Nassau County (between Jericho Tpke and Superior Rd, and Colonial Rd and Remsen Ln) is more upscale, where the lots, houses, and trees are larger. This area and its wide, tree-lined streets are more isolated from the hustle and bustle than other areas of Bellerose.
East of Cross Island, the northern stretch of the main road was, until a recent (but ignored) change, Jamaica Avenue (and Bellerose, Queens), while the southern side of the road was Jericho Turnpike (and Bellerose Village and Terraza Bellerose). That is no longer true. East of Cross Island, this is supposed to be Jericho Avenue.
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New Hyde Park
New Hyde Park, Queens
Queens New Hyde Park contains only a handful of streets, making it much smaller than its cousin Nassau. The two are about the same, mostly single-family homes built from 1920 to 1950. Both are excellent neighborhoods for families. They also share a zip code: 11040.
New Hyde Park Village, Nassau County is a village incorporated to the east of Floral Park.
More about these neighborhoods
If you are looking to move to these neighborhoods, keep in mind that home prices tend to be higher in Queens, but taxes are higher in Nassau County.
Although the subway doesn’t extend that far east, there are Long Island rail stations at Floral Park (Tulip and Atlantic Aves), Bellerose (Superior Rd at Commonwealth Rd), and New Hyde Park (2nd Ave at New Hyde Park Rd).
