The boroughs of NYC do not have towns!They all have neighborhoods.Long Island City is just one of the many neighborhoods of NYC.And Long Island is not a town, nor is it a part of Queens or NYC.Long Island is composed of two counties, which are Nassau and Suffolk County.Within Nassau and Suffolk County, there are cities, towns, villages and hamlets.
New York City is made up of five boroughs. Most people when asked by an outsider will just identify the borough that they are from. Queensites will me the group most likely to identify their Town. This is more accurately a neighborhood now, but at one time was a toown. Even though no one is alive when it happened 110 years ago, some never seemed to get over it. I think to say Queens is fine and then list the town name when queationed where in queens. When I was growing up in the South Bronx, people often identified where they were from by their chuerch parish.Two exceptions to that borough thing that applies to the Bronx are City Island and Riverdale. I get the City Island thing since it is an actual island and is the only habitable part of the Bronx not attached to the mainland, It also is, or at least was, a very different community. When asked, they will freely admit to be from the Bronx. Riverdale people on the other hand are snooty and pretentious and don t want to be associated with the borough that they legally are. Or, at least, most of the ones that I have met and known are that way.Long Island is a large island, over a hundred miles long and maybe twenty miles wide and is composed of two large and two small counties. The two small ones are called Queens County and King s County and ar the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, respectively. Most residents of the Island are crowded into here. The remaining two counties are Suffolk which has a very low population density and is the larger and more remote of the two. Nassau is in the middle in population and size. Back to Queens....Long Island City is one of those towns that I mentioned before and is considered in two senses. It is a postal zone, as most of these towns are, but it also the site of one of Queens main post offices along with Flushing and Jamaica. Sometimes you may see mail addressed to other towns like Astoria , Sunnyside or Woodside, but it will say Long Island City on the bottom. Either way would be correct.
Queens is a bit of an odd place. Back before the five boroughs of the city were consolidated into one city, Queens was a scattering of many separate towns. Today, it is the only borough in which postal addresses are written with the individual town or neighborhood names (Long Island City, Jamaica, Forest Hills, Ozone Park, Far Rockaway, etc.). Here s how this works:New York City - consists of five boroughs:-Manhattan (New York County) - consists of Manhattan Island, a few other islands, and the neighborhood of Marble Hill.-The Bronx (Bronx County) - not an island, the Bronx is connected to the mainland United States.-Brooklyn (Kings County) - located on the western end of Long Island, it was once its own city before becoming part of NYC.-Queens (Queens County) - located on Long Island to the north and east of Brooklyn, it once was a collection of rural towns before becoming part of NYC.-Staten Island (Richmond County) located south and west of Manhattan.Long Island is a geographic mass that extends east of Manhattan. The NYC boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens are located on Long Island. Farther east are Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are NOT part of New York City.
There are no towns or other political subdivisions within the NYC boroughs. Long Island City is a neighborhood in Queens, but it s not a political entity and doesn t have an exact border.Long Island is an island that includes the NYC boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens plus the counties of Nassau and Suffolk. Usually when people talk about Long Island they mean the 2 suburban counties, not the entire geographic island.
Long Island City was a separate city until 1898, when it joined the City New York. The name remains in use to refer a section of modern New York City, though there is no longer any political separation for it.The whole of your question really requires understanding the history of how NYC came into being. Before the consolidation movement that happened in the last half of the 1800s. New York City was only Manhattan, until it annexed the Bronx in 1870. Outlying cities and towns were plentiful on Long Island, which was the counties of Queens, Kings, and Suffolk (Nassau County didn t exist at the time; it s what s left over because just part of Queens joined NYC). Queens County contained dozens of communities: villages, hamlets, and cities. Kings County was dominated by the city of Brooklyn, especially after Brooklyn annexed Willamsburg and Bushwick in 1855. Nassau and Suffolk counties were sparsely populated.Once the five boroughs came together in 1898, with Queens County comprising the Borough of Queens and Kings County the Borough of Brooklyn, with the various once-independent communities within them losing that independence while for the most part still retaining their names as neighborhoods. So Long Island City in Queens, Williamsburg in Brooklyn, etc... are still recognizable as place names but have no separation from the city as far as government.The term Long Island has evolved to generally be used only to refer to the area of that land mass that is not part of NYC: Nassau and Suffolk counties. So today I, living in Brooklyn, will say I m going to Long Island if I plan to cross the Nassau County line... even though I don t cross over any water to do so.
That s just a name that goes back to the time before the borough became part of the city. There are no towns within the city of New York. There are names that sound like towns but its just a name from long ago. Long Island is to the west of the county of Queens. It is an area comprised of two counties, Nassau and Suffolk. They are not part of New York City.