Locust Manor (New York City, New York)

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Locust Manor is a sub-neighborhood partly within the St.Albans neighborhood and partly in South Jamaica neighborhhods themselves in the central southern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered on the north by Baisley Boulevard to Irwin Place to Roe Road to 120th Avenue, on the east by the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road to 121st Avenue to Farmers Boulevard, on the south by North Conduit Boulevard, and on the west by Guy R. Brewer Boulevard to 137th Avenue to 173rd Street to 134th Road to Bedell Street. Nearby neighborhoods include Jamaica, South Jamaica and Rochdale Village. Locust Manor, which was named after a 1906 residential development in the area was formerly the location of the Jamaica Racetrack, which operated from 1903 to 1959, and was torn down in 1960 for a housing development.

Locust Manor is a "quiet residential neighborhood" which is home to a predominantly African American and Afro-Caribbean constituency of middle-class income. Locust Manor Estates, on 172nd Street and Baisley Boulevard, is a state-subsidized residential complex of two- and three-family homes, cooperative apartments and senior-living units, subsidized through the New York City Housing Partnership.