(This will be displayed in a giant cherry wood glass frame with photos and the information below)

 Our Landmarks

John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international airport located in the borough of Queens in New York City, United States, 12 miles (20 km) southeast of Lower Manhattan. It is the busiest international air passenger gateway into the United States, the fifth busiest airport in the United States and the busiest airport in the New York City airport system, handling 56,827,154 passengers in 2015. Over ninety airlines operate out of the airport, with non-stop or direct flights to destinations in all six inhabited continents. The airport features six passenger terminals and four runways. It serves as a hub for American Airlines and Delta Air Lines and is the primary operating base for JetBlue Airways. In the past, JFK served as a hub for Eastern, National, Pan Am, and TWA.

Opened as New York International Airport in 1948, it was commonly known as Idlewild Airport before being renamed in 1963 in memory of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, following his assassination.

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AirTrain JFK is a 3-line, 8.1-mile-long (13 km) people mover system and elevated railway in New York City providing a 24/7 service to John F. Kennedy International Airport. It is operated by Bombardier Transportation under contract to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the operator of the airport. The service operates all day, year-round. The system finally opened on December 17, 2003.

There are precious few memorials to St. Albans/Addisleigh Park’s jazz heritage. In 1899, a year after Queens became part of New York City (and with the Town of Jamaica and the Village of Jamaica thereby dissolved), the new post office for the 600 residents was named St. Albans, after St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, which itself was named after a Saint Alban, thought to be the first Christian martyred in England. The name had been in use for the area since at least 1894 for the name of the school district. There already was a road in the area called St. Albans Avenue, and the LIRR station was named St. Albans when it opened in 1898.

The St. Albans Golf Course, built in 1915, brought rich and famous golfers, including baseball star Babe Ruth. The Depression forced the golf course owners to try to sell, but plans for private development fell through. The federal government in 1942 seized the land, and construction soon began on the St. Albans Naval Hospital, which opened in 1943. The Veterans Administration received the St. Albans Extended Care Center, now known as the VA St. Albans Community Living Center, from the U.S. Navy on March 14, 1974.

The VA St. Albans Community Living Center provides primary care and offers specialized geriatric programs and restorative rehabilitation. Geriatric programs provide comprehensive evaluation and safe, effective management of elderly cognitively impaired veterans. An outpatient Adult Day Health Care Program and Home Based Primary Care Program exists and cares for physically disabled, medically-complicated elderly veterans who are at risk of nursing home placement or recurrent hospitalization. A comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation Domiciliary program, providing incentive therapy, vocational counseling and independent living skills training for patients seeking to return to independent living, is provided at the VA St. Albans Community Living Center.

Many famous jazz musicians used to live in St. Albans, particularly in some of the large houses in the small western enclave known as Addisleigh Park. 

Southern Queens’ ascendance as a mecca for jazz musicians began in 1923 when Clarence Williams, a successful musician and entrepreneur from Plaquemine, Louisiana, purchased a home and eight lots at 171-37 108th Avenue.

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Home of Web Dubois 173-19 113th Ave

Dressed in a tuxedo, civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois married an activist nearly three decades his junior on Feb. 27, 1951, in a posh house in southeast Queens. The exterior of the Addisleigh Park, or to many St. Albans, home where Du Bois, 83, wed Shirley Graham, 54, is remarkably unchanged from what the couple's friends would recall. But it also remains unlandmarked at a time when a building boom is sweeping across the borough.

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984)[1] was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His mother taught him to play the piano and he started performing in his teens. Dropping out of school, he learned to operate lights for vaudeville and to improvise accompaniment for silent films at a local movie theater in his home town of Red Bank, New Jersey. By 16 years old, he increasingly played jazz piano at parties, resorts and other venues.

In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, the guitarist Freddie Green, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump", developed in 1935 in the early days of his band, and later "April in Paris". William Basie was born to Harvey Lee and Lillian Basie in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father worked as a coachman and caretaker for a wealthy judge. After automobiles replaced horses, his father became a groundskeeper and handyman for several wealthy families in the area. Both of his parents had some type of musical background. His father played the mellophone, and his mother played the piano; in fact, she gave Basie his first piano lessons. She took in laundry and baked cakes for sale for a living. She paid 25 cents a lesson for piano instruction for him.

Basie was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. On 21 July 1930, Basie married Vivian Lee Winn, in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. They were divorced sometime before 1935. Sometime in or before 1935, the now single Basie returned to New York City, renting a house at 111 West 138th Street, Manhattan, as evidenced by the 1940 census. He married Catherine Morgan on 13 July 1940 in the King County courthouse in Seattle, Washington. In 1942, they moved to Queens. The Basie's bought a whites-only home in the new neighborhood of Addisleigh Park in 1946 on Adelaide Road and 175th Street, St. Albans. On April 11, 1983, Catherine Basie died of a heart attack at the couple's home in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. She was 67 years old. Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida on April 26, 1984 at the age of 79.

Count Basie’s home on Adelaide Road and 175th Street, St. Albans

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Ella Fitzgerald performed for 58 years, won 13 Grammy Awards and sold in excess of 40 million records. “The First Lady of Song” was born in Newport News, VA, and was orphaned young in life. She was discovered in an amateur contest sponsored by Harlem’s famed Apollo Theatre in 1934 and was soon the featured vocalist in Chick Webb‘s band.

Ella lived on Murdock Avenue between 179th and 180th Street. She moved to Addisleigh Park in the 1950s.

Milt Hinton, The dean of jazz bassists, “The Judge” was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi and moved to Chicago with his family in 1921. After working through the 1920s a s afreelance musician with such legendary jazz artists including Zutty Singleton, Jabbo Smith, Eddie South, Erskine Tate, and Art Tatum, he joined Cab Calloway‘s band in 1936, remaining with Cab for 15 years. Milt Hinton was also an educator and author, teaching at Hunter and Baruch Colleges.

Milt Hinton lived in this house at 113th Avenue and Marne Place. Hinton was a Queens resident from 1950 until his death in 2000.

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Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn in 1917 and has been performing since she was a teenager. She danced and later sung at the Cotton Club beginning in 1933 and made her first recordings in 1937 with Teddy Wilson’s orchestra. She joined Charlie Barnet‘s orchestra in 1940, and while Barnet’s behavior was exemplary (he was one of the first white bandleaders to hire African Americans) she tired of the draining segregation and racism that was such a constant durng that time. Upon signing with MGM in 1940, she shrewdly had a clause written in that prevented her from depicting domestics, in a jungle native role, or other cliché images. Her appearance in 1943’sStormy Weather was a sensation; her rendition of the title song was her biggest hit and remains her signature song. Lena Horne left Hollywood in the early fifties to concentrate on her singing.

178th Street between 112th Avenue and Murdock Avenue. Like many of her contemporaries, Lena Horne resided here beginning in the 1940s.

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James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and bandleader. The founding father of funk music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance, he is often referred to as the "Godfather of Soul". In a career that spanned six decades, he influenced the development of several music genres.

Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He joined an R&B vocal group, the Gospel Starlighters (which later evolved into the Flames), in which he was the lead singer. First coming to national public attention in the late 1950s as a member of the singing group The Famous Flames with the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please" and "Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a tireless live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes known as the James Brown Band or the James Brown Orchestra. His success peaked in the 1960s with the live album Live at the Apollo and hit singles such as "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World". During the late 1960s he moved from a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music-making that influenced the development of funk music. By the early 1970s, Brown had fully established the funk sound after the formation of the J.B.s with records such as "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" and "The Payback". He also became noted for songs of social commentary, including the 1968 hit "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud". Brown continued to perform and record until his death from congestive heart failurein 2006.

The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, lived in this house which formerly belonged to Bart Williams, trumpeter with Duke Ellington, on Linden Boulevard and 176th Street.

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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by signing Robinson, heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.

Jackie Robinson House was a Brooklyn home of baseball great Jackie Robinson from 1947 when he was awarded Rookie of the Year with the Brooklyn Dodgers through 1949 when he was voted Most Valuable Player. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. 

However, his other house at 112-40 177th Street in the Addisleigh Park neighborhood of Queens, was the Robinsons' home from 1949 to 1955 is not currently landmarked.

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FAMOUS PEOPLE OF QUEENSEddie "Lockjaw" Davis St. Albans Jazz Musician

Adam Philllips Queens Comedian/Actor

Adrien Brody Woodhaven Actor

Al Heath St. Albans Jazz Musician

Al Jolsen Forest Hills Singer Yes

Al Roker St. Albans Television Weatherman Yes

Al Sears Jamaica Jazz Musician

Alan G. Cohen Queens Owner NHL Florida Panthers

Alan G. Hevesi Forest Hills NYC Comptroller

Albert J. Johnson Jamaica Jazz Musician

Alicia Keyes Queens Singer/Songwriter/Producer Yes

Andrew Cuomo Holliswood Frmr Secretary of Housing and Urban Dvlpmt

Yes

Angela Lansbury Douglaston Actress Yes

Anita Loos Bayside Actress

Anne Hosansky Jamaica Author/Freelance Writer

Anthony Mason Springfield Gardens

Basketball Player

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Anya Von Bremzen Jackson Heights Journalist/Cookbook Author

Arlo Guthrie Howard Beach Singer/Songwriter Yes

Arthur Buchwald Hollis Author Yes

Arthur Garfunkel Forest Hills Singer/Actor Yes

Arthur Prysock Queens Singer

Assata Shakur Jamaica Revolutionary

Barry Commoner Flushing Biologist Yes

Barry Lewis Kew Gardens Historian

Baruch Blumberg Far Rockaway Nobel Prize Winner Yes

Bela Fleck Queens Banjoist/Composer Yes

Benny Goodman Jackson Heights Jazz Musician

Bernadette Peters Ozone Park Actress Yes

Bernadine Healy Long Island City Physician Yes

Bernard Kalb Flushing Author/Political Analyst Yes

Bill Doggett Flushing Jazz Musician

Bill Kenny Elmhurst Member of the musical grouup the Ink Spots

Bill Mitchell St. Albans Co-Founder of St. Albans Historical Jazz

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Billie Holliday St. Albans Jazz Singer Yes

Billy Moro-Wey Queens Painter

Bix Beiderbecke St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Bob Cousy St. Albans Basketball Player Yes

Bob Keeshan Forest Hills Actor/Producer Yes

Brook Benton St. Albans Singer Yes

Buck Clayton Jamaica Jazz Musician

Buddy Johnson Jamaica Jazz Musician

Buddy Rich Forest Hills Jazz Musician Yes

Burt Bacharach Kew Gardens Songwriter Yes

Burt Young Bayside Actor

Burton Richter Far Rockaway Nobel Prize Winner Yes

Buster Keaton Beechhurst Actor/Director Yes

Calvin O. Butts Queens Minister Yes

Cannonball Adderly Corona Jazz Musician Yes

Carol Heiss Jenkins Ozone Park Figure Skater/Coach Yes

Carroll O'Connor Forest Hills Actor Yes

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Cecil P. Taylor Corona Pianist Yes

Charles Camarda Ozone Park Astronaut

Charles Dana Gibson Flushing Illustrator Yes

Charles Honi Coles East Elmhurst Tap Dancer

Charles M. Williams St. Albans Jazz Musician

Charles S. Colden Whitestone Supreme Court Justice/Founder of Queens College

Charlie Mingus Jamaica Jazz Musician Yes

Charlie Shavers Corona Jazz Musician

Charlie Spivak Jackson Heights Jazz Musician

Chick Corea Cambria Heights Jazz Musician Yes

Chris Cimino Ozone Park Television Weatherman

Christian Finnegan Astoria Comedian/Co-Star of the Dave Chapell Show

Christopher Lorenzo Bayside Rap Music Executive

Christopher Walken Bayside Actor Yes

Claire Shulman Whitestone Frmr. Queens Borough President

Clarence Irving St. Albans Founder of Black American Heritage Foundation

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Clarence Johnson St. Albans Founder of the Black American Heritage M

Clark Terry Bayside Jazz Musician Yes

Clement C. Moore Elmhurst Author Yes

Colin Powell Hollis Secretary of State Yes

Cornelius Lawrence Bayside Mayor of New York

Count Basie St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Crockett Johnson Elmhurst Author Yes

Curtis Jackson Jamaica AKA "50 Cents" Rap Artist

Cyndi Lauper Ozone Park Singer/Songwriter Yes

Dale Carnegie Forest Hills Author/Speaker Yes

Darryl DMC McDaniels Queens Rapper Member of Run DMC

David Caruso Forest Hills Actor

David Ignatow Whitestone Magician Yes

David Peng Queens Taiwan 1976 Olympic Team

Dayal, Daur Khalsa Queens Author

Debra Wilson South Ozone Park

Comedian

Dee Dee Ramone Forest Hills Co-founder of the Ramones

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Dick Van Patten Kew Gardens Actor

Dina Meyer Forest Hills Actress

Dizzy Gillespie Corona Jazz Musician/Composer Yes

Don Donaldson Corona Jazz Musician

Don Rickles Jackson Heights Comedian Yes

Donald Manes Flushing Frmr Queens Borough President

Donald Trump Jamaica Estates Real Estate Developer Yes

Donna Karan Forest Hills Fashion Designer Yes

Douglas Florian Kew Garden Hills

Author/Illustrator Yes

Drea De Matteo College Point Actress

Eagan Eddie Rego Park Police Officer

Earl Bostic St. Albans Jazz Musician

Eddie Bracken Astoria Actor Yes

Eddie Layton Forest Hills Organist for the New York Yankees

Edward Willella Bayside Ballet Dancer Yes

Edwin Swanston Hollis Jazz Musician

Elizabeth Elcik Middle Village Illustrator

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Ella Fitzgerald St. Albans Jazz Singer Yes

Ellen Baker Bayside Astronaut

Elton Fax Long Island City Painter

Eric Holder Elmhurst U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C.

Ernie Grunfeld Forest Hills Basketball Player

Estee Lauder Corona Business Executive Yes

Ethel Merman Astoria Singer/Actress Yes

Eva Taylor Jamaica Singer

Fatty Arbuckle Beechhurst Actor Yes

Floyd Flake St. Albans Frmr. U.S. Resprsentative/Minister Yes

Fran Drescher Flushing Actress Yes

Francis Lewis Whitestone Merchant

Francis Ford Coppola Woodside Film Director Yes

Frank W. Wess St. Albans Jazz Musician

Fred C. Trump Jamaica Estates Real Estate Developer

Gene Krupa St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Gene Simmons Queens Member of the Rock Band KISS Yes

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George Anacona Kew Gardens Hills

Author Yes

George Big Nick Nichols Jamaica Jazz Musician

George J. Maharis Astoria Actor

First Name Last Name Location Occupation Biography Available

George J. Tenet Flushing Frmr Director of the CIA Yes

Geraldine Ferraro Forest Hills Politician Yes

Gertrude Ederle Flushing Swimmer Yes

Glen Miller Jackson Heights Jazz Musician/Band Leader

Gordon Powell St. Albans Jazz Musician

Guy R. Brewer Jamaica NYS Senator

Gypsy Rose Lee Rego Park Stripper/Dancer Yes

Hank Azaria Forest Hills Actor Yes

Harriet Kupferberg Bayside Philanthropist

Harry Belafonte East Elmhurst Singer/Actor Yes

Harry Lefrak Rego Park Real Estate Developer

Hedda Hopper Little Neck Gossip Columnist Yes

Heinrich E. Steinway Astoria Founder of Steinway & Sons Yes

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Helen Keller Forest Hills Author/Humanitarian Yes

Helen Marshall Queens Queen Borough President

Herman Wouk Flushing Pulitzer Prize Yes

Howard Gewirtz Rego Park Writer

Howie Rose Bayside Sportscaster

Illinois Jacquet St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Irving Burgie Hollis Lyriscist/composer

Irving Gikofsky Queens Weatherman

Irving Lorenzo Queens Rap Music Executive

Ishle Yi Park Whitestone Queens Poet Laureate

Israel Yago Forest Hills MTV Correspondent

Ivan Lee Jamaica Fencing, Sabre 2004 Olympic Team

Jack Cassidy Richmond Hill Actor

Jack Lord Queens Actor

Jackie Robinson St. Albans Baseball Player Yes

Jacob Riis Richmond Hill Photographer Yes

Jaki Byard Hollis Jazz Musician

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James Brown St. Albans Singer Yes

James Caan Sunnyside Actor Yes

James Parris Hollis Animator

James A. Bland Flushing Singer Yes

James E. Hair Hollis First Black Naval Officer Ensign

James H. Jones Springfield Gardens

Jazz Musician

James T. Smith St. Albans AKA L L Cool J Rapper Yes

James, Osie Johnson St. Albans Jazz Musician

James, P. Johnson Jamaica Jazz Musician

Jane Breskin Zalben Whitestone Author/Illustrator Yes

Janet Gaynor Rego Park Actress Yes

Jason Mizell Queens DJ of Run DMC Rapper

Jason Patric Flushing Actor Yes

Jayson Williams Middle Village Frmr. Pro Basketball Player w NJ Nets

Jean Fiedler Bayside Author

Jeff "Ja Rule" Atkins Hollis Singer

Jerry Seinfeld Forest Hills Comedian/Actor Yes

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Jimmy Breslin Forest Hills Journalist Yes

Jimmy Durante Astoria Comedian Yes

Jimmy Heath St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Jimmy Muniz Forest Hills Comic Book Illustrator

Jimmy Rushing Corona Jazz Musician

Jo Ann Falletta Astoria Orchestra Conductor

Joe Louis St. Albans Heavywight Boxing Champion Yes

Joel Klein Astoria NYC School Chancellor

Joey Benjamin St. Albans Jazz Musician

Joey Ramone Forest Hills Singer

John Bowne Flushing Abolitionist

John Coltrane St. Albans Jazz Musician/Composer Yes

John Frankenheimer Flushing Film Director Yes

John Golden Fresh Meadows Producer Yes

John Gotti Howard Beach Mobster

John Guare Jackson Heights Playwright Yes

John Leguizamo Jackson Heights Actor/Playwright Yes

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John Mancini Queens Editor-in-chief Newsday

John McEnroe Douglaston Tennis Player Yes

John Turturro Rosedale Actor/Director Yes

John Alsop King Jamaica New York Governor

John B. Cullen Jamaica Chairman of King Kullen Supermarket

John N. Mitchell Jamaica Government Official/Lawyer Yes

John T. Williams Flushing Composer Yes

John Thomas Clancy Jackson Heights Frmr Queens Borough President

Johnathan Salk Flushing Polio Vacinne Scientist Yes

Johnny Long Bayside Bandleader

Jon Tiomkin Jamaica Fencing, Foil 2004 Olympic Team

Jonn Frusciante Astoria Guitarist Yes

Joseph Run Simmons St. Albans Aka Run of Run DMC Rapper Yes

Joyce Brothers Far Rockaway Psychologist Yes

Judith Caseley Bayside Author/Illustrator Yes

Judith Sloan Queens Actor/Writer

Judy Holliday Sunnyside Actress Yes

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June Havoc Rego Park Actress

Junior Mance East Elmhurst Jazz Musician

Kamara James Jamaica Fencing, Epee 2004 Olympic Team

Keeth Smart Jamaica 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist U.S. Sabre Team

Keith Perrin Hollis Co-founder of FUBU

Kenneth Kupferberg Flushing Business Executive

Kenny Smith Briarwood Former NBA Basketball Player

Kevin Dobson Jackson Heights Actor

Kevin Han Queens Badminton, Doubles 2004 Olympic Team

Khalid Reeves Middle Village Former NBA Basketball Player

Kip Lewis Queens Sportscaster

Lamar Odom Queens Basketball Player 2004 Olympic Team

Lena Horne St. Albans Jazz Singer/Actress Yes

Lennie Tristano Hollis Jazz Musician Yes

Lester Young St. Albans Jazz Musician

Lew Lehr Rego Park Actor

Lidia Bastianich Douglaston Chef/Restauranteer

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Lila Perl Beechhurst Author Yes

Lillian Hayman Hollis Actress

Lisa Cotoggio Whitestone Author

Lloyd "Christopher"

Banks Queens Singer

Louis Armstrong Corona Jazz Musician Yes

Louis Farrakhan Elmhurst Muslim Leader Yes

Louis Latimer Flushing Scientist Yes

Luck Luciano Flushing Organized Crime Figure

Lucy Liu Jackson Heights Actress Yes

Luella Gear Bayside Actress

M. Dylan Raskin Flushing Author

Madeline Kahn Astoria Actress Yes

Madonna Ciccone Corona Author/Singer Yes

Malcolm X East Elmhurst Civil Rights Leader Yes

Margaret Heckler Flushing Government Official Yes

Marie Dressler Flushing Actress Yes

Mario Cariello Queens Frmr Queens Borough President

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Mario Cuomo South Jamaica Politician Yes

Mark Di Suvero Long Island City Painter/Sculptor

Mark Jackson Queens Basketball Player

Martin Landau Kew Gardens Actor Yes

Martin Scorsese Flushing Film Director Yes

Marty Ingels Jamaica Poet Yes

Marvin Hamlisch Flushing Composer/Songwriter Yes

Marvin Kalb Flushing Author/Political Analyst Yes

Marvin Young Hollis Rapper "aka" Young M. C.

Mary Murphy Flushing WPIX Channel 11 News Anchor/Reporter

Mary Ann Shaw Flushing First Black Prinicipal in Queens/Philanthropist

Matthew Troy Queens Village Queens Democratic Party Boss

Maurice Connolly Forest Hills Frmr Queens Borough President

Maxine Brown Jamaica Singer

Mercedes Ruehl Jackson Heights Actress

Mercer Ellington St. Albans Jazz Musician/Composer

Mezz Mezzrow Jackson Heights Jazz Musician

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Michael Cullen Jamaica Founder of King Kullen Supermarket

Michael Landon Forest Hills Actor Yes

Michael Voudouris Glendale 2002 U.S. Olympic Skeleton Team

Mike Dawson St. Albans Founder of the St. Albans Historical Jazz S.

Mike Lilly Kew Gardens Comic Book Illustrator

Mildred Bailey Forest Hills Jazz Musician Yes

Milton Hinton St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Milton Jacquet Hollis Jazz Musician

Mitch Albom Forest Hills Author/Sportswriter Yes

Mobb Deep Queens Bridge Hip Hop Artist

Moira Keller Queens Actress

Morton Gould Richmond Hill Composer Yes

Mose Allison Elmhurst Jazz Musician

Murray Pergament St. Albans Business Executive

Nancy Cline-Liberman

Far Rockaway Basketball Player

Nancy Lieberman Far Rockaway Frmr. Basketball Player/ GM & Coach WNBA

Yes

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Nancy Walker Sunnyside Actress/Comedian Yes

Nas "Nasir" Jones Long Island City Rapper

Nat Adderly Corona Jazz Musician

Natasha Hastings Rosedale 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist 4 X 400 meter relay team

Neal Gillen Woodside Author

Nicole Albino Queens Singer/Nina Sky

Nina Albino Queens Singer/Nina Sky

Nina Koosman Astoria Author

Norm Roberts Jamaica Basketball Coach at St. John's University

Oliver Nelson St. Albans Jazz Musician

Oscar Hammerstein Whitestone Composer Yes

Parry Shen Queens Actor/Drama Teacher

Mitch Albom Forest Hills Author/Sportswriter Yes

Mobb Deep Queens Bridge Hip Hop Artist

Moira Keller Queens Actress

Morton Gould Richmond Hill Composer Yes

Mose Allison Elmhurst Jazz Musician

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Murray Pergament St. Albans Business Executive

Nancy Cline-Liberman

Far Rockaway Basketball Player

Nancy Lieberman Far Rockaway Frmr. Basketball Player/ GM & Coach WNBA

Yes

Nancy Walker Sunnyside Actress/Comedian Yes

Nas "Nasir" Jones Long Island City Rapper

Nat Adderly Corona Jazz Musician

Natasha Hastings Rosedale 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist 4 X 400 meter relay team

Neal Gillen Woodside Author

Nicole Albino Queens Singer/Nina Sky

Nina Albino Queens Singer/Nina Sky

Nina Koosman Astoria Author

Norm Roberts Jamaica Basketball Coach at St. John's University

Oliver Nelson St. Albans Jazz Musician

Oscar Hammerstein Whitestone Composer Yes

Parry Shen Queens Actor/Drama Teacher

Patricia Reilly Giff St. Albans Author/Illustrator Yes

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Patty Duke Astin Sunnyside Actress Yes

Paul Gibson Jamaica VP of American Airlines

Paul Gonzalez Cambria Heights Jazz Musician

Paul Newman Fresh Meadows Actor Yes

Paul Simon Forest Hills Singer/Song Writer Yes

Paul Stanley Queens Guitarist/Member of Rock Band Kiss Yes

Paula Fox Kew Gardens Author/Illustrator Yes

Percy Heath St. Albans Jazz Musician Yes

Perry Bradford St. Albans Jazz Musician

Perry Como Queens Singer Yes

Peter Munro Flushing Houston Astros Pitcher

Peter F. Vallone Astoria Speaker NYC Council

Phil Rizzuto Glendale Baseball Player Yes

Phil Schapp Hollis Jazz Musician

Pia Zadora Forest Hills Actress

Rae Dooley Bayside Actress

Ralph Bunche Kew Gardens United Nations Official/ Nobel Prize Winner

Yes

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Ray Bryant Corona Jazz Musician

Ray Felix East Elmhurst Basketball Player

Ray Romano Forest Hills Actor/Comedian Yes

Red Nichols Forest Hills Jazz Musician

Red Norvo Forest Hills Jazz Musician Yes

Reginald Veljohnson Queens Actor

Reri Grist Flushing Opera Singer Yes

Richard Charles Corona Computer Industry

Richard Dreyfuss Bayside Actor Yes

Richard P. Feynman Far Rockaway Physicist Yes

Rise Stevens Elmhurst Opera Singer Yes

Robert Bowne Flushing Abolitionist

Robert Davi Astoria Actor/Director

Robert Mapplethorpe Glen Oaks Photographer Yes

Robert Moog Flushing Created the Modular Synthesizer Yes

Rocco Di Spirito Jamaica Restauranteur

Rodney Dangerfield Kew Gardens Comedian

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Ron Brown Jamaica United States Secretary of Commerce Yes

Ronnie Artest Queensbridge Professional Basketball Player

Ronnie Harmon Bayside Football Player

Roone Arledge Forest Hills Television Producer Yes

Rosco Gordon Queens Blues Musician

Roscoe Brown Whitestone Tuskegee Airmen

Rose Murphy St. Albans Singer

Rosemarie Dewitt Flushing Actress

Roy Campanella St. Albans Baseball Player Yes

Roy Eldridge Hollis Jazz Musician

Roy Wilkins Flushing Civil Rights Leader Yes

Roy O. Haynes Hollis Jazz Musician Yes

Royal Ivey St. Albans NBA Basketball Player

Rufus King Jamaica U.S. Senate

Russell Simmons Hollis Founder and CEO Rush Communications Yes

Samuel Bowne Flushing Abolitionist

Selma Gore Sunnyside Press Agent

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Sheila Lee Jackson Jamaica Congress Woman Yes

Sidney Leviss Queens Frmr Queens Borough President/State Justice

Sidney Poitier Elmhurst Actor Yes

Slam Stewart St. Albans Jazz Musician

Sri Chinmoy Jamaica Spritual Leader

Stack Bundles Far Rockaway Rapper

Starr Danias Jamaica Estates Ballet Dancer

Stephen Jay Gould Fresh Meadows Paleontologist Yes

Urban C. Green Queens Jazz Musician

Vincent Ford, Jr. South Jamaica Actor

W.C. Fields Bayside Comedian Yes

Warren Lehrer Queens Writer/Photographer

Wendell Marshall St. Albans Jazz Musician

Whitey Ford Astoria Baseball Player Yes

Wild Bill Davis St. Albans Jazz Musician

William Davis St. Albans Jazz Musician

William Grant Still Jamaica Jazz Musician

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William J. Casey Elmhurst Chairman Stock Exchange Commision Yes

Willie Mays East Elmhurst Baseball Player Yes

Willilam Diehl Jamaica Actor/Writer

Willilam Edward B

Du Bois St. Albans Historian Yes

Woody Guthrie Howard Beach Singer/Composer Yes

Woody Herman Jackson Heights Jazz Musician/Band

This list was provided by the Queens Library.

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