What is the difference between Long Island and Long Island City?


What is the difference between Long Island and Long Island City? Long Island City is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. There is also a region of suburbs outside of New York City called Long Island, which is comprised of numerous individual towns. These are two different places.


Is Long Island an island a city?

Located in the downstate region of New York, east of New York City, Long Island is an island measuring roughly 120 miles in length and 23 miles at its greatest width.


Is Queens considered NYC or Long Island?

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City, geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island.