Auburndale

Neighborhood · Queens

Auburndale sits between Flushing's Murray Hill section and Bayside, and both the Clearview Expressway and the Long Island Expressway pass through it.

  • 1.99 square miles
  • 36,182 residents, 2020 Census
  • 436 street corners
  • 14 bus routes

Developer L. H. Green started the community in 1901, the year Long Island Rail Road service reached the area, and it takes its name from his home of Auburndale, Massachusetts. Its Auburndale station on the Port Washington Branch still links the neighborhood with Manhattan. Tudor houses are the most common style, mixed with Dutch colonials and Cape Cods, and the area's largest public high school is Francis Lewis High School.

Sources: Auburndale, Queens (Wikipedia); The Names of the Neighborhoods of Queens, Part 2 (Forgotten New York).

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Auburndale borders eight areas, and Francis Lewis Boulevard and Utopia Parkway hold more of its corners than any other street, 28 each of 436.

Street map of Auburndale, Queens, outlined among Bayside, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Fresh Meadows-Utopia and East Flushing, with Kissena Corridor Park.Bay Terrace-ClearviewBaysideCunningham ParkFresh Meadows-UtopiaEast FlushingQueensboro HillMurray Hill-Broadway Flushing
  • Auburndale
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Auburndale.

  • 13 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q12
  • Q13
  • Q16
  • Q17
  • Q26
  • Q27
  • Q28
  • Q30
  • Q31
  • Q74
  • Q75
  • Q76
  • Q88

Express bus route

  • QM20

Safety record

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

  • 1,155 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.6 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 147 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 24 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
19
Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than red-light or bus-lane tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 28,398 school-zone speed camera tickets at 27 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Clearview Expressway & 56th Avenue, 3,662

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 36,182 residents in Auburndale, about 18,200 per square mile.

  • 13,045 homes, 2020 Census
  • 323 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,225 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 27% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
29.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Kissena Corridor Park (24.3 acres), Bayside Fields (2.6 acres) and Saul Weprin Playground (1.5 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
7,933 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Francis Lewis Boulevard, with 28 of the area's 436
Height above sea level
From 28 feet at 50th Avenue & 175th Place to 113 feet at 201st Street & 26th Avenue
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 12 schools and one library in Auburndale.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
5
Library
East Flushing Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 370 major felonies at places in Auburndale.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Auburndale

  • 353 major felonies in 2024
  • 620 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Auburndale, the NYPD recorded another 20 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Auburndale.

Police precincts
111th (most of the area), 109th
Major felonies recorded at places in Auburndale, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 171 major felonies at places in Auburndale, against 160 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.