Sinsull, your remarks about Queens Borough looked like they might cause me a sleepless night wondering where the name came from. Finally found this:
"In 1683, 19 years after the capture of New Netherlands, England divided the New York Crown Colony into 12 counties. Queens emerged as a vast territory. ...The origin of the borough's name is disputed, but the leading theory holds that its namesake was Queen Catherine, the 17th century Portuguese princess who married England's Charles II.
Queens' farm produce fed the burgeoning populations of Manhattan and Brooklyn....."
Queens was absorbed into NY in 1898.