Homes & Real Estate In Whitestone, New York
| This North Queens community was named for a rock at the point where the tides meet from the East River and Long Island Sound. It is just to the Northeast of Flushing. The town of Clintonville was merged with it.
The Queens Borough President's page has a map which shows Queens neighborhoods. While the boundary structures are not named, we'll take this as authoritative. So, our best guess of Whitestone's boundaries from this map are:
However, that would seem to eliminate at least one other neighborhood, Beechhurst. The zip code that covers Whitestone is 11357. It boomed after construction of a stamping mill in 1854 In 1860, Whitestone was a village in the Town of Flushing, located on the sound, in the extreme north part of town. It contained 2 churches and an extensive tin and sheet ironware manufactory. Population was 630. In the late nineteenth century, many wealthy New Yorkers began building mansions in the area, on what had once been farmland. Rapid development of the area ensued in the 1920s, however, as trolley and Long Island Rail Road train service on the Whitestone & Westchester Branch was expanded into the neighborhood. Although this rail service ended during the Great Depression, the right-of-way was later used by Robert Moses to help construct the Belt Parkway, which includes the Cross Island Parkway which runs through Whitestone. Further development came with the building of the Bronx Whitestone Bridge in 1939. Today, Whitestone is a largely working and middle-class neighborhood. The neighborhood comprises mostly of single family homes, garden apartment complexes, and small apartment buildings. |