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    Hollis is a residential middle-class neighborhood within the southeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens. While a predominantly African-American...
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  • Hollis Queens may refer to: Hollis, Queens, New York City, United States Hollis Queens, drummer for Boss Hog This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Queens Village is a mostly residential middle class neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bound by Hollis to the...
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    teenage mothers are more common in Jamaica and Hollis than in other places citywide. In Jamaica and Hollis, there were 100 preterm births per 1,000 live...
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  • Hollis may refer to: Hollis (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name Hollis (singer), American singer-songwriter Hollis Wong-Wear...
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    Run-DMC (redirect from Hollis Crew)
    DMC, or some combination thereof) was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens New York City, formed in 1983 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and...
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    Whitestone Beechhurst Clearview Malba Bellaire Brookville Cambria Heights Hollis Hollis Hills Holliswood Jamaica Jamaica Estates Jamaica Hills South Jamaica...
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  • Hollis Brown is an American rock band from Queens, New York, formed in 2009 by singer and guitarist Mike Montali and guitarist Jonathan Bonilla. Named...
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  • DJ Hurricane (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    Run D.M.C. in the Hollis, Queens area of New York City. His first hip-hop experience was with Davy Dmx the first hip-hop DJ from Hollis. Hurricane became...
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  • 78 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The title refers to Hollis, Queens, the New York City neighborhood in which the members of Run-DMC grew...
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    Darryl McDaniels (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    wrote "Christmas in Hollis" for A Very Special Christmas. The music video for "Christmas in Hollis" was shot in Hollis, Queens. Run-D.M.C. filmed the...
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  • George Grasso (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    Queens District Attorney in October 2022. George Grasso was born in Hollis, Queens and grew up in Valley Stream, New York. His father, George, worked as...
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    (guitar) and Cristina Martinez (vocals) along with Jens Jurgensen (bass), Hollis Queens (drums) and Mickey Finn (keyboard). The band achieved some notoriety...
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    Flushing, Central Queens, Bayside–Oakland Gardens, Douglaston–Little Neck–Bellerose, Jamaica–South Jamaica, Queens Village–Hollis–St. Albans, Springfield...
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    Jam Master Jay (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    prior to discovering turntablism. After he and his family moved to Hollis, Queens, New York City, in 1975 at the age of 10, he discovered the turntables...
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    Stephen A. Smith (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He was raised in the Hollis section of Queens. Smith is the youngest of six children. He has four older sisters...
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    Joseph Simmons (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    MTV reality show Run's House. Simmons was born November 14, 1964, in Hollis, Queens, New York. He is the younger brother of artist Danny Simmons and Russell...
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    Daymond John (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    February 23, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City, but grew up in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens and attended Catholic school for seven years. He began working...
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    Hollis is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line at the intersection of 193rd Street and Woodhull Avenue in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens...
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    Al Sharpton (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    the family qualified for welfare and had to move from middle class Hollis, Queens, to the public housing projects in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn...
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    LL Cool J (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    Jim (October 24, 2010). "Your nabe: A guide to the hip hop haven of Hollis, Queens". NY Daily News. Retrieved February 20, 2019. baseballproo77 (April...
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    Russell Simmons (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    at Def Jam. Russell Wendell Simmons was born in the Hollis neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough on October 4, 1957. His father was a public...
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    Adrienne Adams (politician) (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    includes the Queens borough neighborhoods of Jamaica, Rochdale Village, Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park. Adams was raised in Hollis, Queens. She attended...
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    Ja Rule (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    York. Jeffrey Bruce Atkins was born on February 29, 1976, in Hollis, a section of the Queens borough of New York City. Atkins' father left the family when...
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  • Live Squad was an American hip hop group and production team from Hollis, Queens, New York consisting of brothers Stretch (Randy Walker) and Majesty (Christopher...
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    Danny Simmons (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    Evelyn Simmons, a teacher who painted as a hobby. Simmons grew up in Hollis, Queens. He earned a degree in social work from New York University and a master's...
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  • outgrown its manufacturing complex in Hollis, Queens. The company wanted to build a new plant in College Point, Queens, but was unable to strike a deal with...
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    are named after Nathaniel Woodhull: PS 35 Nathaniel Woodhull School, Hollis, Queens Nathaniel Woodhull Elementary School, Shirley, New York Nathaniel Woodhull...
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    Edwin Joseph O'Malley (category People from Hollis, Queens)
    cotton goods salesman. Around 1911 he moved the family from the Bronx to Hollis, Queens. He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, but did not serve...
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    of the neighborhood and its demographics; Hollis, Queens in the northeast corner of greater Jamaica and Queens CB12 is referred to as "Northside". The South...
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