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New York City real estate: St. Albans, Queens

St. Albans is a quiet middle-class neighborhood in eastern Queens, but just beneath lies a level of culture, politics and heritage that not all New York neighborhoods can boast.

Once home to some of the greats of jazz and sports Count Basie, Jackie Robinson, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald to name a few St. Albans is now home to modest working-class families, mostly African...

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