Cambria Heights

Neighborhood · Queens

Cambria Heights occupies the southeastern edge of Queens along the Nassau County line, with Queens Village to the north and St. Albans to the west.

  • 1.19 square miles
  • 19,081 residents, 2020 Census
  • 230 street corners
  • 7 bus routes

Its name, coined in the mid-1920s, was borrowed from a company based in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, that financed the early building. In 2022 the city designated two historic districts on 222nd and 227th Streets, protecting 96 storybook-style row houses with Tudor details built in 1931. Black families began settling here by the 1950s and by the 1980s were joined by families from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Barbados.

Sources: LPC Designates Two Historic Districts In Queens (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Cambria Heights, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Cambria Heights borders five areas, and 120th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 24 of 230.

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  • Cambria Heights
  • 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 Cambria Heights.

  • 6 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q4
  • Q27
  • Q51
  • Q77
  • Q83
  • Q84

Express bus route

  • QM64

Safety record

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

  • 1,012 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 33 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 16 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
15
Accessible pedestrian signals
5
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
  • 17,813 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Francis Lewis Boulevard & 116th Avenue, 3,752

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 19,081 residents in Cambria Heights, about 16,000 per square mile.

  • 6,363 homes, 2020 Census
  • 7 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,185 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 21% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III) developments lie wholly or partly within Cambria Heights.

FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV)
Partly within Cambria Heights
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II)
Partly within Cambria Heights
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III)
Partly within Cambria Heights

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
8.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Cambria Playground (4.7 acres), Delphin H. Greene Playground (2.8 acres) and East Springfield Playground (1.1 acres)
Historic districts
Cambria Heights-222nd Street and Cambria Heights-227th Street, wholly or partly within Cambria Heights

Streets and trees

Trees
3,609 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and pin oak
Street with the most corners
120th Avenue, with 24 of the area's 230
Height above sea level
From 35 feet at Springfield Boulevard & 120th Avenue to 63 feet at 228th Street & 114th Drive
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and one library in Cambria Heights.

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
5
Library
Cambria Heights Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 119 major felonies at places in Cambria Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Cambria Heights

  • 117 major felonies in 2024
  • 680 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Cambria Heights, the NYPD recorded another 24 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 7.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Cambria Heights.

Police precinct
105th
Major felonies recorded at places in Cambria Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 53 major felonies at places in Cambria Heights, against 55 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.