Queens County, one of the five boroughs of New York City, is the Heimat of the Heinl's in America. It consists of one city, Long Island City, and four towns (township equivelants): Flushing, Jamica, Newtown, and Rockaway Peninsula. The other four boroughs of New York City are Brooklyn, Manhatten, the Bronx, and Richmond. Each of the five boroughs is coextensive with a county: Brooklyn in Kings county, the Bronx in Bronx county, Manhatten in New York county, Richmond in Richmond county, and Queens in Queens county. The counties of Kings and Queens are located on the western end of Long Island. The five boroughs were established in 1898.
Here are two maps of Queens to put everything in perpective. The first is a Rand McNally map of 1895 that shows the location of Queens on Long Island and the second map shows the cities in Queens.
Members of the Heinl family lived in Queens at least until the early 1940's. Astoria, a neighborhood in Long Island City, was the American home of John Adam Heinl and his family. John apparently used his middle name because his children referred to their father as Adam Heinl. Adam and his family lived at 474 and 497 Broadway in Astoria. His youngest children, Mollie and Robert, were educated in the Astoria Public Schools. They were all members of Trinity Lutheran Church on Pomeroy Street near Jamaica Ave in Long Island City. Adam died on January 10, 1906 in Long Island City and is buried in St.Michael's Cemetery in East Elmhurst.
His oldest daughter, Anna Heinl Lang, lived briefly in Corona and then moved to Leonia, NJ. She was cremated in Fresh Pond Crematorium in Middle Village. Fresh Pond is still in business.
Barbara Heinl married and moved to Jersey City Heights, NJ. Many of her descendants live in NJ.
Justina Heinl married and moved to Manhatten. She and her husband ran a boarding house on 42nd and 8th Street in Manhatten. That was her address when she died.
John was naturalized on 26 May 1900 in Queens County. At the time he was living at 499 Broadway in Astoria. He moved to Youngstown, Ohio shortly thereafter and married there. His descendants still live in the surrounding area in Ohio.
Max was naturalized on 28 July 1906 in Queens County. He married a girl from Long Island City and later moved to Roscoe, NY. He retained a membership in the Flushing Bay Motor Boat Club even though he spent his last years in Sullivan County.
Amelia married and moved to Flushing.
Robert married and moved to Flushing. Some of his descendants still live on Long Island.