Baisley Park

Neighborhood · Queens

Baisley Park takes in the blocks around Baisley Pond Park in southeast Queens, where South Jamaica, Rochdale and St. Albans meet.

  • 1.72 square miles
  • 43,090 residents, 2020 Census
  • 331 street corners
  • 17 bus routes

The pond began in the 1700s when farmers dammed streams to power a grain mill, and it carries the name of David Baisley, the mill's owner, who sold it in 1852 to supply Brooklyn's water system. In 1858 workers digging in the pond uncovered the bones of a mastodon, and a sculpture of the animal stands in the park today. Opened to the public in 1919, the park surrounds its 30-acre pond with playgrounds and sports facilities.

Sources: Baisley Pond Park (Wikipedia); The Remains of a Mammoth Exhumed (The Walt Whitman Archive).

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Baisley Park borders five areas, and 116th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 29 of 331.

Street map of Baisley Park, Queens, outlined among South Jamaica, Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, South Ozone Park and Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville, with Baisley Pond Park.South JamaicaSt. AlbansSpringfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale VillageSpringfield Gardens (South)-BrookvilleSouth Ozone Park
  • Baisley 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 17 routes stop in or at the edge of Baisley Park.

  • 14 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q5
  • Q6
  • Q7
  • Q40
  • Q51
  • Q84
  • Q85
  • Q86
  • Q87
  • Q89
  • Q111
  • Q113
  • Q114
  • Q115

Express bus routes

  • QM21
  • QM63
  • QM65

Safety record

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

  • 2,137 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.5 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 24 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 30 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
25
Accessible pedestrian signals
9
Turn calming
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
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
  • 20,016 school-zone speed camera tickets at 16 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
167th Street & Baisley Boulevard, 3,467

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 43,090 residents in Baisley Park, about 25,100 per square mile.

  • 13,445 homes, 2020 Census
  • 743 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 8,237 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 63% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Baisley Park, FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group I), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IX), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VI) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII) developments lie wholly or partly within Baisley Park.

Baisley Park
Within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II)
Partly within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III)
Partly within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group I)
Partly within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IX)
Partly within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VI)
Partly within Baisley Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII)
Partly within Baisley Park

Parks

Parkland
91.1 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Baisley Pond Park (81.9 acres), Dr. Charles R. Drew Park (6.4 acres) and Playground One Forty (1.4 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
7,122 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
116th Avenue, with 29 of the area's 331
Height above sea level
From 9 feet at North Conduit Avenue & Van Wyck Expressway to 38 feet at 116th Avenue & 142nd Street
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Baisley Park.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Baisley Park Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Baisley Park: Baisley Pond Park Memorial (1921).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 405 major felonies at places in Baisley Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Baisley Park

  • 325 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,855 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Baisley Park, the NYPD recorded another 77 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Baisley Park.

Map of Baisley Park: 13 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Baisley Park, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Baisley Park, most about 1,500 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Baisley Park are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Baisley Park and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
113th
Major felonies recorded at places in Baisley Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 169 major felonies at places in Baisley Park, against 171 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.