Welcome to the Queens Tribune’s Official Guide To Queens, the Queens Blue Book, our annual guide to all that you need to live, thrive and survive in this wonderful borough of 2.2 million people.

Inside these pages you will find the name, address and phone number of every elected official, senior center, hospital, business improvement district, library and more. To the average person living in this borough, the Queens Blue Book is an indispensable tool that we have been proud to publish for the last 16 years as a service to our readers.

So keep this handy guide next to your phone book, use it when you have to find those important numbers, and keep us in mind throughout the year.

Everything a Queens resident needs to help navigate the often-murky waters of municipal life in the borough can be found by clicking these icons below.

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A Golden Moment

As the sun sets over Queens, the outline of Shea Stadium looms large in the skyline, standing alone in a sea of parking lots – but not for much longer. A new stadium – Citifield – will soon replace the aging relic and change the borough’s skyline.

Change comes as no surprise in a borough as dynamic as ours; it is part of life and inevitable. While we look back at the information in this Official Guide To Queens and the differences from last year, we turn our gaze to the future – not toward the setting sun of yesterday, but the new golden moments brought about by the rising sun of a new day.

Queens continues to change, and the Queens Tribune will continue to report the changes throughout the year. Whether it is a new star shining in the borough’s sky, or the sun setting on a piece of history, we will be there.

Keep this handy Official Guide To Queens close at hand, and continue to read the newspaper that brings it and all of the borough’s golden moments to you throughout the year.