Hotels and other services appeared to meet the needs of cemetery visitors. John Roman Catholic Cemetery was laid out on the eastern side of the town in 1879. The Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike became an un-tolled road by 1873, and St. Īfter the Civil War, the area became predominantly German. In 1852, a Manhattan Lutheran church purchased the farmland on the western end of the hamlet. The swamp, an area where the Americans hid from British in the American Revolutionary War, was originally circumscribed by a "Juniper Round Swamp Road". It was generally sparsely populated because the large Juniper Swamp was in the area. The area was settled around 1816 by people of English descent and was named in the early nineteenth century for its location as the midpoint between the then-towns of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Jamaica, Queens, on the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike (now Metropolitan Avenue), which opened in 1816. Politically, Middle Village is represented by the New York City Council's 29th and 30th Districts. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 104th Precinct. Middle Village is located in Queens Community District 5 and its ZIP Code is 11379. Housing in the neighborhood is largely single-family homes with many attached homes, and small apartment buildings. Middle Village is bordered by the neighborhoods of Elmhurst to the north, Maspeth and Ridgewood to the west, Glendale to the south, and Rego Park to the east. Olivet Crescent to the east, Fresh Pond Road to the west, Eliot Avenue to the north, and Metropolitan Avenue to the south, is often counted as part of Middle Village but is sometimes considered part of nearby Ridgewood. A small trapezoid-shaped area bounded by Mt. Middle Village is a mainly residential neighborhood in the central section of the borough of Queens, New York City, bounded to the north by the Long Island Expressway, to the east by Woodhaven Boulevard, to the south by Cooper Avenue and the former LIRR Montauk Branch railroad tracks, and to the west by Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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