Corona

Neighborhood · Queens

Corona covers the blocks south of Roosevelt Avenue between Junction Boulevard and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, including the LeFrak City apartment towers beside the Long Island Expressway.

  • 0.86 square miles
  • 73,822 residents, 2020 Census
  • 220 street corners
  • 3 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Speculators began building the settlement, then called West Flushing, in 1854 after the railroad arrived, and in 1872 it took the name Corona, from the Latin word for crown. The meeting of 108th Street and Corona Avenue has long been the hub of the area's Italian-American community, and nearby William F. Moore Park, acquired by the City in 1924, holds a World War I memorial tablet dedicated in 1929.

Sources: William F Moore Park History (NYC Parks); Corona, Queens (Wikipedia); LeFrak City (Wikipedia).

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Corona borders five areas, and Corona Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 220.

Street map of Corona, Queens, outlined among Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Elmhurst, North Corona and Forest Hills, with its three subway stations and Park Of The Americas.North CoronaFlushing Meadows-Corona ParkForest HillsRego ParkElmhurst
  • Corona
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 111 St lines 7
  • 103 St-Corona Plaza lines 7
  • Junction Blvd lines 7 accessible

Getting around

Three subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Corona.

  • 3 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes
  • 5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q14
  • Q23
  • Q58
  • Q72
  • Q88
  • Q98

Express bus routes

  • QM10
  • QM11
  • QM12
  • QM40
  • QM42

Safety record

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

  • 1,879 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.5 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 17 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 48 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
41
Accessible pedestrian signals
21
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Enhanced crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 5,355 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 4,790 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Horace Harding Expressway & 108th Street, 5,355
Most speed tickets
Van Cleef Street & Saultell Avenue, 1,716

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 73,822 residents in Corona, about 85,800 per square mile.

  • 22,216 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,071 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,359 residential lots hold buildings from 1931 or earlier, and 54% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
7.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Park Of The Americas (3 acres), Corona Golf Playground (1.7 acres) and Simeone Park (1.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Fire Engine Company 289, Ladder Company 138; and the Congregation Tifereth Israel

Streets and trees

Trees
3,033 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Corona Avenue, with 23 of the area's 220
Height above sea level
From 13 feet at 101st Street & Lewis Avenue to 63 feet at 97th Street & 40th Road
Honorary street names
13 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and one library in Corona.

Public schools
9
Charter and private schools
2
Library
Lefrak City Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 24 bike-share stations stand in Corona.

  • 24 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 548 major felonies at places in Corona.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Corona

  • 780 major felonies in 2024 232 fewer in 2025
  • 1,706 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Corona, the NYPD recorded another 216 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Corona.

Map of Corona: 16 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 Corona, 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 Corona, most about 1,000 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 Corona 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 Corona and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
110th
Major felonies recorded at places in Corona, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 329 major felonies at places in Corona, against 270 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.