Ozone Park, Queens
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Ozone Park is a New York City neighborhood located in the southwestern part of the borough of Queens bordering Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, and the borough of Brooklyn. The northern border is Atlantic Avenue, west border is Drew Street (City Line), south border is South Conduit Avenue, and the east is 108th Street. It is the home of the Aqueduct Racetrack, a popular spot for thoroughbred racing. The makeup of the neighborhood has historically been mostly Italian, Irish and Polish, but recent immigrants from South Asia, the West Indies and South America have come into the neighborhood. These new arrivals have helped Ozone Park becoming one of the fastest-growing and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in New York City.
There are many bus routes that run through Ozone Park. The Q41 runs on Rockaway Boulevard, Q11 up Woodhaven Boulevard, Q112 runs on Liberty Avenue along which the A becomes elevated, the Q8 which runs on 101st avenue, and the Q24 runs on Atlantic Avenue.
Ozone Park was a center for mafia activities until the early 1990s. John Gotti's Bergen Hunt and Fish Club was located here and would host a huge block party and fireworks show along 101st Avenue every July 4th. After he went to prison, neighborhood residents protested his incarceration.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became very unpopular here in the late 1990s when he denied local residents permits to host similar block parties along 101st Avenue.
Notable People from Ozone Park
- Charles Camarda - astronaut, Mission Specialist on STS-114, first space shuttle flight since the loss of the Columbia
- Justin Credible - Professional wrestler
- Thomas Joseph Downey- US Democratic Congressman from Suffolk County, New York from 1975-1993.
- Gerald M. Edelman - 1972 Nobel Prize winner
- Peter Facinelli - actor
- Peter Lomtevas - attorney
- John Gotti - Mafia Boss
- Carol Heiss - Olympics figure skater
- Jack Kerouac - writer , although he was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he lived here with his parents after he was discharged from the U.S. Navy in 1943. He wrote his first novel, The Town and the City, as well as the quintessential On The Road while living in Ozone Park. His friends jokingly called him, "The Wizard of Ozone Park", as a play on words refering to the film and book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
- Cyndi Lauper - actress/singer
- Bernadette Peters - actress/singer
- Debra Wilson - comdienne
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