Editing Long Island City (section)

=== Blissville ===
[[File:City View Inn jeh.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Hotel on [[Greenpoint Avenue]] in Blissville]]
Blissville, which has the [[ZIP Code]] 11101, is a neighborhood within Long Island City, located at {{coord|40|44|4.87|N|73|56|9.81|W|display=inline}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.astorialic.org/topics/people/bliss_p.php |title=Greater Astoria Historical Society – Biographies – Neziah Bliss |website=astorialic.org |access-date=October 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923175547/http://www.astorialic.org/topics/people/bliss_p.php |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and bordered by [[Calvary Cemetery, Queens|Calvary Cemetery]] to the east; the [[Long Island Expressway]] to the north; [[Newtown Creek]] to the south; and Dutch Kills, a tributary of Newtown Creek, to the west. Blissville was named after Neziah Bliss, who owned most of the land in the 1830s and 1840s.<ref>{{cite book |author=Walsh, Kevin |title=Forgotten New York: Views of a lost metropolis |publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York |year=2006}}</ref> Bliss built the first version of what was known for many years as the Blissville Bridge, a [[drawbridge]] over Newtown Creek, connecting [[Greenpoint, Brooklyn]] and Blissville; it was replaced in the 20th century by the [[Greenpoint Avenue Bridge]], also called the J. J. Byrne Memorial Bridge, located slightly upstream. Blissville existed as a small village until 1870 when it was incorporated into Long Island City.<ref name="Long Island City" /> Historically an industrial neighborhood, it has [[Triangle 54]], a small park with a monument at 54th Avenue and 48th Street.