Cambria Heights (New York City, New York)

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Cambria Heights is a middle-class neighborhood in the southeastern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Springfield Boulevard and Francis Lewis Boulevard to the west, the Elmont, Nassau County border beyond the Cross Island Parkway on the east, Queens Village beyond Murdock Avenue to the north, St. Albans to the west, and Montefiore Cemetery and Laurelton and Rosedale to the south beyond 121st Avenue. As of 2007, Cambria Heights's population is 20,128. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 13.

The neighborhood derived its name from the Cambria Construction Company of Pennsylvania, which began to develop the community in the late 1920s, and the fact that, at an elevation of 49 feet, it is one of the three highest points in the borough, together with Jackson Heights and Richmond Hill.

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