Alley Pond Park

Park · Queens

Alley Pond Park stretches across more than 655 acres of Queens between Bayside and Douglaston, from the shore of Little Neck Bay south to Union Turnpike, and ranks as the borough's second-largest park.

  • 0.94 square miles
  • 15 street corners
  • 7 bus routes

A glacier shaped its sandy ridges and kettle ponds, and the park takes its name from the Alley, an 18th-century center of trade and manufacturing in a valley there. The city acquired 330 acres for the park in 1929 and opened it in 1935. Run by NYC Parks, it is known for its woods and wetlands, the Alley Pond Environmental Center and the Queens Giant, the tallest measured tree in New York City.

Sources: Alley Pond Park (The Cultural Landscape Foundation); Alley Pond Park (Wikipedia).

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Alley Pond Park borders four areas, and Cross Island Parkway holds more of its corners than any other street, ten of 15.

Street map of Alley Pond Park, Queens, outlined among Douglaston-Little Neck, Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Bayside and Bellerose, with its paths and the streets around it.Douglaston-Little NeckBelleroseOakland Gardens-Hollis HillsBayside
  • Alley Pond Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on seven routes stop in or at the edge of Alley Pond Park.

  • 4 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q12
  • Q27
  • Q30
  • Q88

Express bus routes

  • QM5
  • QM8
  • QM35

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Queens corner.

  • 370 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 24.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
496.5 acres of Alley Pond Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary

Streets and trees

Trees
1,882 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, northern red oak and tuliptree
Street with the most corners
Cross Island Parkway, with ten of the area's 15

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.