Editing Floral Park, New York (section)

==Adjacent Queens neighborhood==
The [[List of neighborhoods in Queens|Queens neighborhood]] is adjacent to the Village of Floral Park, and uses the designation "North Floral Park" with a [[ZIP Code]] of 11004 and [[telephone area code]]s of 718, 347, and 917. North Floral Park also extends into the ZIP Code of 11001.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferretti |first1=Fred |date=November 2, 1977 |title=A Very Fine Line Divides Floral Park From Floral Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/02/archives/a-very-fine-line-divides-floral-park-from-floral-park.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109205448/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/02/archives/a-very-fine-line-divides-floral-park-from-floral-park.html |archive-date=January 9, 2019 |access-date=January 9, 2019 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The neighborhood is part of [[Queens Community Board 13]].<ref>[https://www.nyc.gov/site/cau/community-boards/queens-boards.page Queens Boards], [[New York City]]. Accessed January 26, 2024.</ref> Floral Park is a middle-class neighborhood that consists mostly of [[Cape Cod (house)|Cape Cod]]–style houses. Most of the houses were built after World War II to accommodate returning soldiers. Veterans today make up 11 percent of all residents in Floral Park, versus six percent citywide.<ref name="nytimes20073">{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=C.J. |date=December 16, 2007 |title=A Town Center at City's Edge |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16livi.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227050206/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/realestate/16livi.html |archive-date=27 December 2012 |access-date=8 April 2013 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

[[Union Turnpike (New York)|Union Turnpike]] is the border between the neighborhoods, with [[Glen Oaks, Queens|Glen Oaks]] to the north. The other boundaries of Floral Park are roughly [[Little Neck Parkway]] and 252nd Street to the west, Langdale Street to the east, and a diagonal boundary from Hillside Avenue at 271st Street to Jericho Turnpike at 257th Street to the south. The neighborhood is close to the [[Cross Island Parkway]] and the [[Grand Central Parkway]]. [[MTA Regional Bus Operations|MTA New York City Transit buses]] serve Floral Park on the {{NYC bus link|Q36|Q43|Q46}} local routes and {{NYC bus link|X68}} express route. [[MTA Bus Company]] operates the {{NYC bus link|QM5|QM6|QM35|QM36|prose=y}} express buses, to Midtown Manhattan. The neighborhood is also served by [[Nassau Inter-County Express]] {{LI bus link|n22|n24|n26|prose=y}} bus. The [[Floral Park station]], located in Nassau County proper, is the closest service on the [[Long Island Rail Road]] [[Hempstead Branch]], which travels to [[Jamaica (LIRR station)|Jamaica]] station and to [[Pennsylvania Station (New York City)|Penn Station]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].