"本校の歩みArchived January 17, 2014, at archive.today." The Japanese School of New York. Retrieved January 10, 2012. "Jamaica Queensにて「ニューヨーク日本人学校」開校。"
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LLoyd Banks, Billboard (magazine). Accessed November 15, 2016. "Lloyd Banks was raised in Jamaica, Queens, by his Puerto Rican mother; his father spent much of his son's childhood behind bars."
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David Roberts. "Nassau County Post Offices 1794–1879". Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2007. John L. Kay & Chester M. Smith, Jr. (1982). New York Postal History: The Post Offices & First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980. American Philatelic Society.
"Contact UsArchived March 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine." North American Airlines. Retrieved May 4, 2010. "Contact Us CORPORATE OFFICE North American Airlines Building 141 Federal Circle JFK International Airport Jamaica, NY 11430 "
Jamaica History, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation. Accessed March 19, 2024. "Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant dubbed the area Rustdorp in granting the 1656 patent. The English, who took it over in 1664, renamed it 'jameco,' the Carnarsie word for beaver."
Major Mark Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed March 19, 2024. "Now the largest and most densely populated community in central Queens, the area derives its name from the Jameco ('beaver') Native Americans, who lived along the shores of what is now Jamaica Bay. In 1655, the first English settlers arrived in Jamaica from Massachusetts and eastern Long Island. Within a year, they secured a land grant from the Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant (1610-1672), who had named the area Rustdorp ('rest-town'). Rustdorp soon became the seat of Queens County."
Hirshon, Nicholas. 'It's a long battle for war hero sign", New York Daily News, September 28, 2010. Accessed August 26, 2018. "The state Education Department posted a cast-iron sign on Jamaica Ave. in Hollis in 1935 to note the important moment during the American Revolution. The inscription read, 'On Aug. 28, 1776, Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull was captured and fatally wounded by the British in Increase Carpenter's house 200 feet north of this spot.'"
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Smith, Dinitia. "Straight Outta Queens", New York, January 17, 1994. Accessed November 7, 2022. "One day in 1985, James was sitting by herself in the lunchroom, as she always did, when she noticed Denton, a plump, bubbly girl with bleached-blonde curls and a black leather jacket.... She had been born in the Caribbean, to a prosperous Jamaican family, but was raised in Jamaica, Queens."
Steinberg, Sally Levitt. "The Essence Of Developing Friendships", The New York Times, April 19, 1987. Accessed November 7, 2022. "In her own life, Ms. Pogrebin has moved away from friendships where the subject for talk at the sandbox is which sausage goes in the paella.... The beginning of her own journey was as far back as she can remember, when she played, day and night, with her best friend across the street in Jamaica, Queens, until she moved away at the age of 11."
"Jamaica Resident Is Athens-Bound", QNS.com, August 12, 2004. Accessed December 25, 2023. "When the sabre fencers wield their weapons in Athens next week, Ivan Lee will be the lanky one with the wire-rimmed glasses under his mask. I't wont matter that the Jamaica resident is acutely nearsighted and slender (511" and 160 pounds with his equipment on)."
The Greater Astoria Historical Society. "Debi Mazar, known for playing Jersey Girls, hails from Jamaica", Queens Courier, August 11, 2013. Accessed June 21, 2023. "Seemingly having followed this advice, movie and television actress Debi Mazar (b. 1964) has cultivated a specific persona — that of the sassy, Italian Jersey Girl.... Her ethnic background is Latvian and she is really from Jamaica."
Ives, Brian. "Scott Ian Talks Anthrax, Racism and Metal's Lean Years"Archived January 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Radio.com, November 5, 2014. Accessed November 15, 2016. "And while that sounds a bit abrasive, Ian is a pretty friendly guy, with an zen-like take on all the things he's been through in his life, including (but not limited to) being in a metal band with a rotating cast through that genre's boom and its crash, a few divorces, and coming from a tumultuous family home in Jamaica, Queens."
via Greater Astoria Historical Society. "Film, stage actress Cecily Adams, 46, born in Jamaica", TimesLedger, March 3, 2013. Accessed November 15, 2016. "Actress Cecily Adams was born in Jamaica Feb. 6, 1958, to singer Adelaide Efantis and actor Don Adams, of Get Smart fame."
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"Taíno Dictionary" (in Spanish). The United Confederation of Taíno People. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved October 18, 2007.
David Roberts. "Nassau County Post Offices 1794–1879". Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2007. John L. Kay & Chester M. Smith, Jr. (1982). New York Postal History: The Post Offices & First Postmasters from 1775 to 1980. American Philatelic Society.
"Contact UsArchived March 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine." North American Airlines. Retrieved May 4, 2010. "Contact Us CORPORATE OFFICE North American Airlines Building 141 Federal Circle JFK International Airport Jamaica, NY 11430 "
Ives, Brian. "Scott Ian Talks Anthrax, Racism and Metal's Lean Years"Archived January 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Radio.com, November 5, 2014. Accessed November 15, 2016. "And while that sounds a bit abrasive, Ian is a pretty friendly guy, with an zen-like take on all the things he's been through in his life, including (but not limited to) being in a metal band with a rotating cast through that genre's boom and its crash, a few divorces, and coming from a tumultuous family home in Jamaica, Queens."
