and East Elmhurst to the east. as of 2019, Astoria has an estimated population of 154,141.

Originally the site of a War of 1812 fortification (Fort Stevens), a village called Hallet's (or Hallett's) Cove--named after its first landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1652 with his wife, Elizabeth Fones--grew around the fort. Hallet's Cove was incorporated