It may be a well-acclaimed melting pot, but when it comes to the New York City borough of Queens, it takes it to a whole other level. The emerging hotspots in Queens offer everything that great about New York City — and more.

Many famous people were born and raised in Queens, N.Y. Queens is huge and home to some of the most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods in New York. The neighborhoods of Queens are the birthplace of hip-hop culture, and there are still hundreds of record stores scattered across the borough.

Queens is the largest of New York's boroughs and is adjacent to Brooklyn. If you are part of the city of New York, you know that Queens looks like a suburb, depending on the community you are in. Although it is relatively quiet compared to the rest of the city, houses are built on a much smaller scale.

Queens offers residents of New York City an oasis of affordable housing, with rents that are affordable compared to other parts of the city. Queens is the only borough in New York City that offers a wealth of life-shaping opportunities, and it has all the attributes that make Brooklyn and Manhattan special as well. Queens is one of the best places to live in New York City, offering a wide range of affordable housing options, from affordable apartments to luxury apartments and townhouses.

Queens is also home to several colleges, including Queens College, the LaGuardia Community College, the Queensborough Community College, and St. John's University. If you want to learn more about your favorite city, be sure to visit the Queens Public Library, which is one of the largest in the country.

In 1898, Queens became part of Greater New York and assumed its present size through the merger of what is now Nassau County, which was dissolved to make way for the new Queens and its new city. This led to a strange situation, however, as the remaining parts were technically still part of Queens County; the two jurisdictions overlapped, with the district government having a district in which the majority of the population lived, but the district itself had to assume its current size (as opposed to the one connected to New York City) when it was chartered. In the end, Queens County was nearly four times the size, though it maintained its original size. The majority of this district is now controlled by New York City, so that the "new Queen's district" is only half the old Queens district, but technically still a "part" of it.

While Brooklyn and Manhattan were already a single community, Queens County consisted of several different political divisions, most of which originated in New York City. When Dutch power began to wane, there were rumors that the city of the future "Queens County" would belong to both New York and Connecticut, but the land was annexed between 1874 and 1895, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties are now more or less divided by that line.

When the Queens community became very diverse, the last of the "boroughs" to be fully built in New York City saw a population growth, as Queens was connected to the rest of New York City, as well as New Jersey and other parts of Connecticut.

Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States, and it's also one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world.