Long Island City, on Long Island, separated from New York city by the East River and from Brooklyn by the navigable Newtown Creek, was formed in 1870 from five villages. It is a railway terminus, and has some extensive manufactories, including oil-refineries, and carpet and piano works. Pop. (1880) 17,129; (1890) 30,396.
Long Island City
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 712
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