Bellerose

Neighborhood · Queens

Bellerose sits on the eastern edge of Queens, a neighborhood of mostly detached houses that Jericho Turnpike divides from the Nassau County village whose name it shares.

  • 1.98 square miles
  • 26,566 residents, 2020 Census
  • 284 street corners
  • 11 bus routes

Within its borders lies the Queens County Farm Museum, 47 acres that form the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland. The land has been farmed since 1697, making it one of the longest continuously worked farm sites in New York State, and its 18th-century farmhouse, later enlarged, is a designated city landmark.

Sources: Bellerose, Queens (Wikipedia); Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse Designation Report (LP-0941, November 9, 1976) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Queens County Farm Museum - Home (Queens County Farm Museum); Queens County Farm Museum (Wikipedia).

Map

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Bellerose borders five areas, and Hillside Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 33 of 284.

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  • Bellerose
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Bellerose.

  • 8 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q1
  • Q27
  • Q36
  • Q43
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q88
  • Q110

Express bus routes

  • QM6
  • QM36
  • QM68

Safety record

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

  • 855 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 100 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 22 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
17
Accessible pedestrian signals
8
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Turn calming
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
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
  • 59,425 school-zone speed camera tickets at 15 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Hillside Avenue & Avenue C, 17,156

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 26,566 residents in Bellerose, about 13,400 per square mile.

  • 8,933 homes, 2020 Census
  • 71 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,497 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 38% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
40.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Alley Athletic Playground (27.5 acres), Alley Pond Park (5.5 acres) and Jack Breininger Park (3.7 acres)
Designated landmark
The Creedmoor (Cornell) Farmhouse

Streets and trees

Trees
7,129 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Hillside Avenue, with 33 of the area's 284
Height above sea level
From 83 feet at 93rd Avenue & 243rd Street to 167 feet at Stronghurst Avenue & Grand Central Parkway
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists ten schools and one library in Bellerose.

Public schools
9
Charter or private school
1
Library
Bellerose Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Bellerose: Stein-Goldie Veterans Square (1943).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 231 major felonies at places in Bellerose.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Bellerose

  • 227 major felonies in 2024
  • 637 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Bellerose, the NYPD recorded another nine major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Bellerose.

Map of Bellerose: 10 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 Bellerose, 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 Bellerose, 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 Bellerose 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 Bellerose and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
105th (most of the area), 111th
Major felonies recorded at places in Bellerose, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 94 major felonies at places in Bellerose, against 119 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.