Saint Albans is a residential community in the borough of Queens, part of the Metropolitan area of New York City. St. Albans is near the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard, southeast of Jamaica and northeast of Springfield Gardens and Laurelton. It is home to middle-class Americans and growing numbers of immigrants.
As of 2010 census, there were 48,593 people, 15,054 households, and 11,470 families residing in the area. The median income for a household in the village is $66,169. The median home cost in the area is $449,900. The community was named after a village of England.
Saint Catherine of Sienna Church.
US Post Office Saint Albans, NY, 11412.
Saint Albans Branch, Queens Library.
Part of a land grant to Dutch settlers from New Netherlands Gov. Peter Stuyvesant in 1655, St. Albans, like much of Queens, remained farmland and forest for most of the next couple of centuries. By the 1800s, the plantations of four families; the Remsens, Everitts, Ludlums and Hendricksons were formed the nucleus of this sprawling farm community in the eastern portion of Jamaica Township.
Gilmore’s Funeral Home, 191-02 Linden Boulevard.
Saint Albans Public School 36.
P.S. 036 Saint Albans School.
In the 1890s, St. Albans began to emerge from a sleepy farm community. The first street lights illuminated Lazy Lane, which became Central Road and then Linden Boulevard, and Freeman’s Path, which became Farmers Boulevard. New shops clustered around August Everitt’s lone store. 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 sell to the government, and it became the St. Albans Naval Hospital, serving thousands of World War II veterans.
Addisleigh Park, a historic district in the Saint Albans neighborhood. It was once a legally segregated community reserved for whites only. Despite these efforts, by the 1940s several African- Americans had moved to Addisleigh Park which is today a predominantly African-American neighborhood.
Addisleigh Park, an enclave of brick and stucco houses in southeast Queens, is the former home of legends such as Count Basie, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Illinois Jacquet, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Joe Louis, Milt Hinton, Roy Campanella, Percy Sutton, Cootie Williams and many others.
Mount Calvary Church of God In Christ.
The neighborhood is famous for the jazz legends like Cab Calloway, John Coltrane, Lena Horne, Fats Waller, and Ella Fitzgerald that lived in its elegant enclave Addisleigh Park. Housing development in St. Albans boomed which brought a higher density of living to the entire area. It has detached one and two family homes with a mix of attached homes and small apartment buildings. Much of the housing was built in the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the homes are colonial in style but all different types of colonials, detached, semi detached, attached, and center hall styles.
Grace United Methodist Church of Saint Albans.
Daniel M. O’Connell Playground, named after Daniel M. O’Connell (1900-1918), a native of New York City who gave his life for his country in World War I.
As of 2014, the median home value in St. Albans is $378,800. Compared to the rest of the country, St. Albans cost of living is roughly 40% Higher than the U.S. average. St. Albans lacks a subway but has a LIRR station close to the Belt and Cross Island Parkways. There is the option of taking a bus to the subway. And the St. Albans stop on the Long Island Railroad will take you to Penn Station in Manhattan. The Belt Parkway is just to the south.
The MTA NYC Q83 Cambria Heights, Jamaica, MTA Bus Stop.
Isaac Grocery Store of Saint Albans, 20101 Murdock Ave Saint Albans New York 11412. Isaac Grocery accepts food stamps and is a New York SNAP retailer.
Francis Lewis Boulevard is a main shopping area and it is a short drive to one of the biggest shopping areas in Queens on Jamaica Avenue. Linden Boulevard is also a small business paradise from the LIRR east to Cambria Heights. The busiest area is around the intersection of Linden and Farmers Boulevard which is often congested with traffic.
