Corona is a densely-populated neighborhood in the former Township of Newtown in the New York City borough of Queens. It is neighbored by Flushing to the east, Jackson Heights to the west, Forest Hills and Rego Park to the south, Elmhurst to the southwest, and East Elmhurst to the north.

Corona is bordered on the east by Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, one of the largest parks in New York City and the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs. Located within the park are Citi Field, which replaced Shea Stadium as home of the New York Mets in 2009, and the USTA National Tennis Center, where the U.S. Open in tennis is held annually.

Corona's main thoroughfares include Corona Avenue, Roosevelt Avenue, Northern Boulevard, Junction Boulevard, and 108th Street. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 4, while the northern most part is included in Community Board 3. Corona's zip code is 11368.

Total population of this ZIP code was 98,609 as of the 2000 Census. Corona's racial/ethnic composition is 7.9% White, 14.5% Black, 10.0% Asian, 64.9% Hispanic/Latino, and 2.7% Other.

Corona was a late 19th century development in the old Town of Newtown. The name allegedly derives from the crown used as an emblem by the Crown Building Company, which developed the area; the Italian immigrants who moved into the new housing stock referred to the neighborhood by the Italian or Spanish word for "crown" (which is "corona").

In the last half of the 20th century Corona saw dramatic ethnic successions. In the 1950s what was predominately an Italian American and African American neighborhood began to give way to an influx of Dominicans. In the late 1990s, Corona saw a new wave of immigrants from Latin America. The residents of the Dorie Miller Coops and Meadow Manor Apartments remain predominately African American.[citation needed] There is also a predominately African American and African immigrant community in The LeFrak City housing development located within the southwest ending boundaries of Corona.

The majority Hispanic community consists of Dominicans, Mexicans, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Bolivians, Peruvians, and Chileans. There are also Asian Americans (Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese and Pakistanis) as well as Italian Americans and African Americans. Dominican Americans represent Corona in the New York City Council, Julissa Ferreras, and in the New York State Senate, Jose Peralta. Corona is also represented by Ecuadorian American Francisco Moya in the New York State Assembly.

Corona has several private schools including School of the Transfiguration.

Dorie Miller Residential Cooperative, built in 1952, comprises six buildings, containing 300 apartments, with 1,300 rooms in total. The cooperative is named after Doris "Dorie" Miller, a U.S. Naval hero at Pearl Harbor and the first African American recipient of the Navy Cross. Among its original residents were jazz greats Nat Adderley & Jimmy Heath; Kenneth and Corien Drew, publishers of Queens' first African-American newspaper, The Corona East Elmhurst News, Thelma E. Harris founder of Aburi Press and prominent Queens attorney Henry Slaughter to name a few.

During the 1950s and '60s Corona and its neighbor, East Elmhurst, was home to legendary African American musicians, civil rights leaders and athletes including Dr. Ophelia Devore, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Shavers, Ella Fitzgerald, Norman Mapp, Nat Adderley, Frankie Lymon, Willie Mays, George Williams former Harlem Night Club Dancer turned restaurateur who owned the renowned BBQ George's Supper Club frequented by the Black elite of Queens and New York politicos including civil rights activist Judge William "Bill" Booth, Publisher and NYC Commissioner Ken Drew, New York City's Mayor John Lindsay and New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller.

The two communities were often referred to as one "Corona/East Elmhurst" and is the childhood home of the first African American US Attorney General, Eric Holder, to rap (Hip Hop) artists Kid n' Play, Kwamé, Salt-n-Pepa and Kool G Rap, and is home to Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and her husband Donald.

Corona/East Elmhurst also houses one of the most extensive collections of African American art and literature in the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, which serves Queens County with reference and circulating collections, totaling approximately 30,000 volumes of materials written about or relating to black culture. The Black Heritage Reference Center of Queens County includes books, periodicals, theses and dissertations, VHS videos, cassettes and CDs, photographs, posters, prints, paintings, and sculpture. Cultural arts programs are scheduled through the Center. Meeting space is available to community organizations by application. Special features of the Center include:

Through the Black Heritage Reference Center literature readings, workshops and lectures are scheduled, as well as cultural arts programming in fine art exhibitions, film festivals, dance, musical, and dramatic presentations/performances.[citation needed]

The IRT Flushing Line (7 <7> trains) runs through the neighborhood with stops at 111th Street, 103rd Street – Corona Plaza and Junction Boulevard.

Notable current and former residents of Corona include:

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, Pastor of the nationally-renowned Abyssinian Baptist Church, Jazz Greats and performers, Charlie Shavers, Irving Barnes and Frankie Lymon made Corona their home.

Paul Simon -singer, songwriter of Simon and Garfunkel and solo artist, was also born in Corona.

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