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Business
Top 5 Reasons
to Do Business in Queens
Our borough is strong, vibrant, strategically-located and ready to do business.
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When COVID-19 struck New York in 2020, Queens became an epicenter of the first wave of the pandemic. But our powerful healthcare sector rose to the challenge of caring for our community. Today, we’re emerging stronger than ever to face the challenges of the future.
Learn more about the heroic efforts of two local hospitals beginning on page 38.
Our businesses look out for each other.
Queens Chamber members support their communities via philanthropic giving, as well by the “Adopt a Small Business” program, where established businesses cover the first-year of Chamber of Commerce membership dues of local small businesses, providing access to resources, such as incubator programs, workshops, networking, and more.
Learn more about how Maspeth Federal Savings and Resorts World New York are helping their community on pages 34 and 46.
Your success is our business.
With a host of education, advocacy and networking initiatives, The Queens Chamber of Commerce is committed to helping businesses establish, relocate or expand within our great borough.
Learn more about the services we offer on page 44.
resilient.
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We hav
e a diverse economy, fueled
by diverse and talented people.
We’re a great place to live.
We’re a culinary and culture capital. Here, you can enjoy some of New York’s best dining, as well as outdoor leisure time at Flushing Meadows Park, CitiField, Aqueduct Racetrack and the USTA. We’re also a museum mecca: MoMA PS1, the Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of the Moving Image are all located in Queens.
Learn more about our Sports and Dining sectors on pages 20 and 30.
We hold the Guinness World Record for being the most diverse county on the planet. We also have the second-largest and most diversified economy of all the five boroughs of New York City, with evenly spread jobs across the health care, retail trade, manufacturing, construction, transportation and film and television production sectors.
Learn more about the diversity and vitality of our borough on page 18.
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