Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the borough of Queens in New York City.
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the borough of Queens in New York City. Jackson Heights is neighbored by North Corona to the east, Elmhurst to the south, Woodside to the west, and today northern Astoria (Ditmars-Steinway) to the northwest, and East Elmhurst to the north and northeast. Jackson Heights has an ethnically diverse community, with half the population having been foreign-born since the 2000s. The New York Times has called it "the most culturally diverse neighborhood in New York, if not on the planet." According to the 2010 United States census, the neighborhood has a population of 108,152.
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Worth seeing in and around Jackson Heights
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931.
8.3 km · skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 02Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
8.9 km · private university in New York City, New York, US · Wikipedia - 03Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas.
7.1 km · art museum in New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 04Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres, and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.
7.5 km · public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 05New York University
New York University is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-sectarian all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.
9.4 km · private university in New York City · Wikipedia - 06Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, it is the tallest steel-framed brick building in the world.
7.5 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 07Times Square
Times Square is one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, tourist destinations, and entertainment hubs. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
8.4 km · neighborhood and square in Manhattan, New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 08Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.
7.7 km · art museum in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 09Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Broadway and London's West End together represent the highest commercial level of live theater in the English-speaking world.
8.4 km · a type of theater in Manhattan, New York, United States of America · Wikipedia - 10Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.
7 km · art museum in New York, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Jackson Heights
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 3 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 15 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 25 km
- Stations
- LaGuardia Airport, 2.8 km
- Philadelphia → Jackson Heights140 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · $13–18
- Hartford → Jackson Heights150 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · $14–19
- Albany → Jackson Heights211 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · $19–26
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Jackson Heights
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Jackson Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe East River Ferry makes stops in both north and south Williamsburg.
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Next door to Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights is 8 km from Manhattan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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