Queens, gabashin gabashin birnin New York, yana da tarihin baya bayan mulkin mallaka. A geographically yana da wani ɓangare na Long Island kuma ya kasance 'yan kabilar Lenape' yan ƙasar Amirka.
Turanci da Yaren mutanen Holland sun zo kasar Queens suna yin sulhu a 1635 tare da zama a Maspeth da Vlissingen (yanzu Flushing) a cikin shekarun 1640. Ya kasance ɓangare na yankin New Netherlands.
A shekarar 1657, 'yan mulkin mallaka a Flushing sun sanya hannu a kan abin da aka sani da Flushing Remonstrance, wanda ya zama mahimmancin tanadin Tsarin Mulki na Amurka akan' yancin addini.
Wannan takardun ya nuna rashin amincewar da gwamnatin mallaka na mulkin mallaka ta kasar Holland ta yi wa Quakers.
Ƙasar Queens - kamar yadda ya zama sananne a ƙarƙashin mulkin Turanci - asalin mallaka ne na New York, wanda aka kafa a 1683. Ƙasar a wancan lokaci ya haɗa da abin da ke yanzu Nassau County.
A lokacin yakin juyin juya hali, Queens ya kasance a karkashin aikin Birtaniya. Yakin Long Island ya faru mafi yawa kusa da Brooklyn tare da Queens suna taka muhimmiyar rawa a yakin.
A cikin 1800s yankin ya kasance mafi yawan aikin noma. A 1870 An kafa tsibirin Long Island, ya rabu da garin Newtown (yanzu Elmhurst).
Queens ya shiga Birnin New York
Cibiyar Queens, a matsayin wani ɓangare na Birnin New York, an kafa ne a ranar 1 ga watan Janairu, 1898. A lokaci guda kuma, gabashin yankin - garuruwan Arewa Hempstead, Oyster Bay, da kuma mafi yawan garin Hempstead, ya kasance a matsayin yankin Queens County, amma ba sabuwar yankin ba. Bayan shekara guda a 1899, sai suka raba su zama Nassau County.
Shekaru da suka biyo baya sun bayyana da sababbin hanyoyi na sufuri kuma suka canza gari mai barci. Wurin Queensborough ya bude a shekara ta 1909 da ramin jirgin kasa a karkashin Tekun Gabas a 1910. Rashin hanyar jirgin kasa na IRT Flushing ya hada da Queens zuwa Manhattan a 1915. Wannan ya hada da karuwar mota ya taimaka wa yawan mutanen Queens sau biyu a cikin shekaru goma daga kasa da 500,000 a 1920 zuwa fiye da miliyan daya a 1930.
Queens na da lokaci a cikin hasken rana kamar yadda shafin yanar-gizon 1939 New York World Fair kuma sake zama shafin yanar gizo na New York World Fair a 1964-65, a Flushing Meadows-Corona Park .
LaGuardia Airport ya bude a 1939 da JFK Airport a 1948. A baya aka kira shi Idlewild Airport.
Queens ya zama sananne da yawa a al'adun gargajiya kamar yadda Archie Bunker ya kasance a gida a 1971. A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, masu wasan kwaikwayon daga Queens sun tashi zuwa manyan wurare masu daraja musamman a duniya na hip-hop tare da haske kamar Run DMC, Russell Simmons, da kuma 50 Cent.
Shekarun 1970 zuwa 2000 sun kasance wani labarin da ya fito a cikin tarihin Queens yayin da babban aikin hauren Amurka ya fara bude duniya. Dokar Shige da fice da kasa ta 1965 ta bude asusun fice daga duk fadin duniya. Queens ya fito ne matsayin mazaunin baƙi da fiye da rabin yawan mutanen da aka haifa a kasashen waje kuma fiye da harsuna dari da ake magana.
A cikin 2000s, bala'in ya shafi Queens. Harin hare-haren da aka kai a ranar 9/11 ya hallaka mazauna da kuma masu sauraron farko a fadin jihar. American Airlines Flight 587 ta rushe a cikin watan Nuwamba 2001 a Rockaways da ke kashe mutane 265.
Sandstorm Sandy a cikin watan Oktoba 2012 ta lalata wuraren kwance a kudancin Queens. Lokacin da hadarin ya haddasa, wani mummunan wuta ya rushe yankin Breezy Point, ya hallaka fiye da gidaje dari.