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Intermediate School 73 is located in Maspeth and is where most of the community's children attend grades 6 through 8. Grand Avenue runs along the center of this community. Fine shopping and dining can be found along this avenue. Grand Avenue in Williamsburg becomes Grand Street, and Grand Avenue ends in Elmhurst . There is the Grand Street Bridge that provides access between Willamsburgh and Maspeth. Cemeteries take up a large part of this small neighborhood. This area is surrounded with homes and there are hardly any apartment buildings, except for the Co-ops on Maurice Avenue. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside and Sunnyside to the north, Long Island City to the southwest, Williamsburg and Ridgewood to the south and Middle Village and Elmhurst to the east. There is no subway station in Maspeth. There are buses that run in the area. To get to the subway station you can take the Q18 bus to 61st Street and transfer to the 7 train, the Q58 (west) bus to Wyckoff Avenue and transfer to the L or M trains, the Q58 (east) and Q59 (east) to Queens Boulevard to catch the R, F, V or G trains, the Q67 (north) to Long Island City and transfer to the 7, LIRR, G, N, W, E, G, R, and V trains or Q67 bus (south) and Q39 bus to Metropolitan Avenue to transfer to the M train. 43rd Street through 58th Street is industrial, and from 60th Street to 72nd Street is residential. There was once a mining company here named Phelps Dodge Corporation , which was present from 1920-1983. The Phelps Dodge mining company made the Newtown Creek water contaminated with dirt. There is access available to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway and the Long Island Expressway . On the former is the Kosciuszko Bridge , which separates Brooklyn and Queens. These expressways are accesssible at 69th and Grand Street. For many years Maspeth was a familiar name due to the Elmhurst-Maspeth Gas Tanks , which were a pair of large Natural Gas storage facilities. Because the Long Island Expressway frequently backed up in their vicinity, the gas tanks became a familiar item heard in radio traffic reports. However the gas tanks had been removed by 2001. Most of the people that live in Maspeth are of Polish , Italian , Irish , German , Hispanic or Chinese descent. EXTERNAL LINKS |