Medium-sized neighborhood in
Queens County, NY. Borders on
Ridgewood to the west,
Middle Village to the north,
Richmond Hills to the east and a collection of smaller townships to the south. The population is mostly
blue-collar and the ethnic make-up runs the usual
New York City gamut, in this case weighted toward eastern European and Hispanic wih a touch of Indian thrown in. Nightlife is restricted to one coffee shop, a diner, three laundromats, a bunch of shabby german bars and more pizza places and chinese take-outs than one's mind can comfortably cope with.
Glendale is an interesting commmunity if only because it seems to have something about it that prevents people from going into
Manhattan - most people who live there drive to a workplace somewhere else in Queens. Most likely this factor is its paucity of public transportation - the
Q55 bus (barely) runs from
Jamaica, through Glendale and into Ridgewood where it meets up with the
L Train at Myrtle and Wycoff. That's pretty much it (the
M Train stops at Fresh pond Road but is primarily a commuter line and is inconvenient to use during off-peak hours).