Long Island City
a former municen ipality in Queens co., and the second city in size on Long Island, N. Y.; since Jan. 1, 1898, a part of the Borough of Queens in the Greater New York. Before the consolidation it comprised Hunter's Point, Ravenswood, wood, Blissville, Dutch Kills, Steinway, and Astoria. It is separated from Brooklyn by Newtown creek, is connected with the Borough of Manhattan by several bridges and ferries, and contains extensive warehouses, oil refineries, lumber yards, machine shops, and many manufacturing establishments of the first magnitude. The increased transportation facilities in recent years have made Long Island City one of the LONGSTREET Longitude, in the United States, is reckoned from the meridians of Washington, Greenwich, and Paris. Longitude is expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds, or in time, 15° being equivalent to one hour. It is reckoned to 180° E. or W.
Heliocentric longitude, in astronomy, the longitude of a heavenly body as reckoned on or referred to a circle, of which the center coincides with that of the sun. See LATITUDE. tory. The fifth Parliament summoned