The read Elmhurst in short
Elmhurst is served by the Grand Avenue-Newtown station, with M and R service and late-night E and F trains on Queens Boulevard. It's one of the most linguistically diverse neighborhoods in New York City, with restaurants spanning Thai, Chinese, Colombian, and Mexican kitchens within a few blocks of each other. It's also one of the oldest settlements in Queens — founded by English Puritans in 1652 as Middleburgh and later known as Newtown, it was renamed Elmhurst in 1897 at the urging of developer Cord Meyer, partly to shed the association with the polluted Newtown Creek. The Newtown Pippin apple, colonial America's most celebrated variety, originated as a chance seedling on a farm here.
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