• A common nickname for South Jamaica is Southside. Southside literally refers to the south side of the train tracks.
• Rapper 50 Cent was born and raised in South Jamaica.
• Rochdale Village was built on the former site of Jamaica Racetrack.
• Bob Beamon, Olympic Athlete and world record holder in the long jump for 23 years, was born and raised in South Jamaica.
• Former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo was born and raised in South Jamaica, where his family owned a grocery store.
• George Washington visited Jamaica in 1790
• In 1702 Jamaica briefly served as the capital of the New York Colony during a Yellow Fever outbreak in Manhattan.
• Present day South Jamaica has the largest African-American population in the borough of Queens.
• South Jamaica is home to the second largest housing co-operative in the US, Rochdale Village