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| | Representative Crowley: New York: Jackson Heights |
 | | Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in northwestern Queens, bounded to the north by Astoria Boulevard, to the east by 94th Street and Junction Boulevard, to the south by Roosevelt Avenue, and to the west by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. |
 | | The first apartment building was erected at 82nd Street and Northern Boulevard in 1911, and by 1912 there were eight miles (thirteen kilometers) of paved streets with sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, and five miles (eight kilometers) of sewers. |
 | | A large number of immigrants settled in Jackson Heights in the 1980s, especially from Columbia, China, and the Dominican Republic and to a lesser extent from India, Ecuador, Korea, Guyana, Peru, Cuba, and Pakistan. |
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