Queens is one of the five boroughs of NYC - so it's officially a part of the city, not a suburb. It's a very large and heterogeneous place though, with housing

Queens is one of the five boroughs of NYC - so it's officially a part of the city, not a suburb. It's a very large and heterogeneous place though, with housing ranging from multi-million dollar mansions to high-rise public housing projects, and neighborhoods ranging from luxury to poverty (and everything in between). Parts of it do look fairly suburban, with big areas of private houses that can be a fairly long walk from the nearest store, where everyone owns a car.