Maspeth, Queens

Maspeth is a small community in the borough of Queens in New York City. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside and Sunnyside to the north, Long Island City to the southwest, Williamsburg and Ridgewood to the south and Middle Village and Elmhurst to the east.

Area

Intermediate School 73 is located in Maspeth and is where most of the community's children attend grades 6 through 8. Grand Avenue runs along the center of this community. Local shopping and dining can be found along this avenue. Grand Avenue in Williamsburg becomes Grand Street, and Grand Avenue ends in Elmhurst. There is the Grand Street Bridge that provides access between Willamsburgh and Maspeth. Cemeteries take up a large part of this small neighborhood. This area is surrounded with multiple dwelling homes and there are hardly any apartment buildings, except for the co-ops on Maurice Avenue. Forty-Third Street through 58th Street is industrial, and from 60th Street to 72nd Street is residential. There was once a mining company here named Phelps Dodge Corporation, which was present from 1920-1983. The Phelps Dodge mining company heavily contaminated Newtown Creek. There is access available to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Long Island Expressway. On the former is the Kosciuszko Bridge, which separates Brooklyn and Queens. These expressways are accessible at 69th and Grand Street.

For many years Maspeth was a familiar name due to the Elmhurst-Maspeth Gas Tanks, which were a pair of large natural gas storage facilities. Because the Long Island Expressway frequently backed up in their vicinity, the gas tanks became a familiar item heard in radio traffic reports. However the gas tanks were removed in 2001.

Most of the people that live in Maspeth are of Polish, Italian, Irish, German, Hispanic or Asian descent.

Transport

Although there is no subway station in Maspeth, the area does have ample bus service. One may reach a subway station in several ways:

• Q18 bus to 61st Street–Woodside (7 and <7>​), Northern Boulevard (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R), or 30th Avenue (N and ​W)
• Q39 bus to Forest Avenue (M), Queensboro Plaza (7 and <7>​ N and ​W), 23rd Street–Ely Avenue (E and ​M), or Long Island City–Court Square (G)
• Q58 bus to Grand Avenue–Newtown (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R), Main Street–Flushing (7 and <7>​), Fresh Pond Road (M), Forest Avenue (M), Wyckoff Avenue (M), or Myrtle Avenue (L)
• Q59 bus to Grand Avenue–Newtown (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R), Woodhaven Boulevard (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R), 63rd Drive–Rego Park (E, ​F, ​M, and ​R), or Grand Street (L)
• Q67 bus to Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue (M), Hunters Point Avenue (7 and <7>​), 21st Street–Van Alst (G), Queensboro Plaza (7 and <7>​ N and ​W), Queens Plaza (E, ​M, and ​R), 23rd Street–Ely Avenue (E and ​M), or Long Island City–Court Square (G)
• Q45 bus to 69th Street and Roosevelt Ave (7 and <7>​)

External links

• Maspeth at Google Maps
• Picture Tour of Maspeth