Land in Queens County Introduction
Queens County is one of NYC’s most important boroughs, and has been a cultural touchstone for both New York and the nation for generations. Queens has given us notable performers like LL Cool J, The Ramones, 50 Cent, Run-D.M.C., Nicki Minaj, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong and even Simon and Garfunkel. Lucy Liu, John Leguizamo and Susan Sarandon all grew up in Queens NY.

Queens is not just one place, though. It offers a wide variety of neighborhoods, enclaves and developments, each with its own personality and local culture. You can find almost anything in Queens, which is perhaps why land in Queens County NY is so much in demand.

So, let’s look at Queens in greater detail, both as a borough of NYC and as a county. We’ll explore the climate of the region, the demographics of its people and even some of the most popular neighborhoods to buy land in Queens County NY. You won’t find much undeveloped land in Queens County, but you will find plenty of plots that are ripe for redevelopment.


Queens County Climate
Like the rest of Long Island, Queens County has a humid subtropical climate. Its location right on the Atlantic Ocean prevents temperatures from dropping far below freezing in the winter, and keeps it cool during the summer. The Appalachian Mountains just inland of NYC shield Long Island from some of the heaviest weather coming from inland, as well. One of the reasons land for sale in Queens County has always fetched a good price – even when it was a rural, agricultural area – Is the stability of the climate.

Queens County has no real ‘rainy’ or ‘dry’ seasons, and precipitation falls throughout the year. Queens gets around 45 inches of rain and snow in the average year. Most years will see only 44 days of moderate or heavy rain, and 22 days with at least some snowfall.

A typical Queens County summer will see 17 days with a high temperature above 90F, and only 14 days when the temperature never rises above freezing. The highest temperature ever recorded in Queens was 107F (in 1966), and the lowest was -19F (in 1963 and again in 1985).


Things to See and Do in Queens County
Queens has always been one of NYC’s cultural hubs, and visitors might feel cheated if they did not visit the SculptureCenter, the Queens Museum of Art, Queens Botanical Garden, the Noguchi Museum, the New York Hall of Science, the Museum of the Moving Image, king Manor, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, the Hindu Temple Society of North America or the Afrikan Poetry Theater.