Sunnyside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens, in New York state, in the United States. It shares borders with Hunters Point and Long Island City to the west, Astoria to the north, Woodside to the east and Maspeth to the south. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 2.

Ethnicities of Sunnyside's residents include Latin American (Colombians, Ecuadorians, Dominican, and Puerto Rican), Jewish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Nepali, Indian, Albanian, Bengali, Irish, Turkish and Romanian. Sunnyside is 40.5% White, 28.6% Hispanic/Latino, 24.7% Asian, 1.4% Black, and 4.8% Other.

Sunnyside, a rural hamlet mostly consisting of small farms and marshland, was incorporated into Long Island City in 1870, and developed into a bedroom community after the Queensboro Bridge was completed in 1909. A large portion of the neighborhood is six-story apartment buildings constructed during the 1920s and '30s. The land was originally owned by French settlers in the 1800s. Sunnyside is derived from Sunnyside Hill Farms, so named by the Bragraws family who owned the land.

The area is known for one of America's first planned communities, Sunnyside Gardens. Constructed from 1924 to 1929, Sunnyside Gardens was one of the first developments to incorporate the "superblock" model in the United States. The residential area has brick row houses of two and a half stories, with front and rear gardens and a landscaped central court shared by all.

This model allowed for denser residential development, while also providing ample open/green-space amenities. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright served as the architects and planners for this development, and the landscape architect was Marjorie Sewell Cautley. These well-planned garden homes are now listed as a historic district and are also home to one of only two private parks in New York City, Gramercy Park being the other.

Sunnyside has produced or nurtured such talents as Ethel Merman, Perry Como, Nancy Walker, Judy Holliday, Joe Spinell, James Caan and Rudy Vallee; artist Raphael Soyer, and writers and social activists such as Lewis Mumford. The Queens-grown punk rock group The Ramones played some of their earliest gigs in Sunnyside pubs during the 1970s[citation needed]. In the years before World War II New York Giants star Hap Moran coached a youth football team, the Mustangs, in Sunnyside Park.Youth football again emerged as a source of local pride in the late 60's-early 70's,with the establishment of the Warriors, winners of multiple regional championships coached by Fred Kuntz and featuring Robert "Bazo" Browning as it's dynamic running back. The first openly gay pro wrestler and former WCW and WWF Tag Team Champ and former US Heavyweight Champion Chris Kanyon was born and raised in Sunnyside, interestingly, raised in the same apartment complex as famed actress Crystal Aya set to star in a film opposite Ryan Gossling Summer 2012.

Legendary jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke, "the remote and mysterious jazz cornettist... died in obscurity" in an apartment building at 43-30, 46th Street, in Sunnyside. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Greater Astoria Historical Society joined with a number community groups to erect a plaque in his honor.

Sunnyside is also known for the former Pennsylvania Railroad (now Amtrak) railyard known as Sunnyside Yard. These are a staging area for both Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains leaving from Penn Station.

The proposed East Side Access project will include a new Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train station in Sunnyside at Queens Boulevard along the LIRR's Main Line (into Penn Station) will provide one-stop access for area residents to Midtown Manhattan.

Subway - Sunnyside is served by the 7 Train. The following stops are in the Sunnyside area:

Bus - Multiple bus lines run through Sunnyside:

Other - The area has easy access to Manhattan via the Long Island Expressway & Queens Midtown Tunnel and to Brooklyn via the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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