Queens · New York City · Est. 1683
Start with
your block.
Tap your community district, or type an address. You'll get your board and its district manager, every elected official whose district covers that ground, the civic groups organising there and the landmarks standing on it. No account, and nothing you type is stored.
Tap a district. Numbers are community district numbers, 1 through 14.
Or start with your address
This is the only thing on this site that leaves your device. The address you type goes to the City Planning Department's free address lookup to be turned into a map coordinate. Which district it falls in is worked out here in your browser — nobody is told the answer, nothing is saved, and there is no autocomplete sending what you type as you type it. Tapping the map instead sends nothing at all.
Your representatives
Pick your district
on the map.
You'll get your community board — with its chair, district manager and phone number — plus every council member, assembly member, state senator and representative whose district covers that ground, the civic groups organising there, and the landmarks standing on it.
Not sure which one is yours? Community districts follow neighborhood lines. Astoria is 1, Flushing is 7, the Rockaways are 14 — or type your address.
This fortnight
What's on
in Queens.
Straight from the city's own feeds: parks programming, street fairs, block parties, markets and races. Refreshed live in your browser, so it cannot go stale between deploys.
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Organised already
Somebody near you
is already on it.
107 verified organisations across the borough — civic associations, cultural institutions, advocacy groups, and the 13 business improvement districts that speak for a commercial strip. Plus the one seat in Queens government that is genuinely open to anyone.
The one you can actually join
Your community board
has open seats.
Up to 50 unpaid members per board, two-year terms, and applications run through the Borough President's office every spring. Half the seats are filled on the nomination of local Council members. There is no qualification beyond living, working or having a real stake in the district — it is the only seat in Queens government an ordinary resident can simply apply for.
Boards meet monthly and in public whether or not you apply, and the district manager is the single most useful phone number in local government. Both are on your district's page.
Borough President's application ↗The rest of the site
Two harder
questions.
Two fairs stood on this ground
1939 · 1964
Flushing Meadows.
Twice in twenty-five years, the world came to a former ash dump in Queens. The Unisphere is still standing; the Trylon and Perisphere were scrapped for war material in 1941. Both are drawn here as measured elevations, dimensioned from published figures.
See the drawings →