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Hillside, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hillside is a corner of Queens in New York City, where the Long Island Rail Road once worked a junction of the same name.
About Hillside
Where to stay in Hillside
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Hillside gives visitors no hotel row of its own, so the beds sit out in the wider reach of Queens and the rest of New York City. Book near a rail stop. Anyone drawn here by the Long Island Rail Road can treat the district as a pause between trains, coming out to the two Presbyterian churches that carry the Jamaica name and then heading back to a room elsewhere in the borough.
About Hillside
What are the main landmarks in Hillside?
Two Presbyterian foundations carry the heritage here. First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica and the Jamaica First German Presbyterian Church both take their names from the older settlement of Jamaica, and they are the church entries the record attaches to this patch of Queens. The junction itself is gone.
What is the history of Hillside?
Records date the Hillside junction to 1909. The Long Island Rail Road ran it where the Main Line and the Montauk Branch met, and it served both until the station went out of service and the district kept only the name for the ground the tracks still cross. Trains pass; the platform does not.
The Jamaica church names remain on the heritage list.
Where is Hillside?
The district sits in Queens, part of New York City in the state of New York, with the Main Line and the Montauk Branch crossing the ground by the Hillside Facility.
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Updated September 2026