Cunningham Park

Park · Queens

Cunningham Park is a 358-acre city park stretching between the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway, bordering Fresh Meadows and Oakland Gardens, with the Clearview Expressway running through it.

0.76 square miles
10 street corners
13 bus routes

The City pieced its land together between 1928 and 1944 as Hillside Park and renamed it in the mid-1930s for W. Arthur Cunningham, a World War I veteran elected city comptroller in 1933. A stretch of the Long Island Motor Parkway, the private toll road William K. Vanderbilt Jr. built in 1908, now carries walkers, joggers and cyclists; the park's plan provided tennis courts, playing fields and bridle paths, and it also has mountain-bike trails.

Sources: Cunningham Park (Wikipedia); Cunningham Park History (NYC Parks).

Map

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Cunningham Park borders five areas, and Clearview Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, six of 10.

Street map of Cunningham Park, Queens, outlined among Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Fresh Meadows-Utopia and Bayside, with its paths and the streets around it.

Cunningham 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 13 routes stop in or at the edge of Cunningham Park.

8 local bus routes
5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

Express bus routes

QM5
QM6
QM8
QM35
QM36

Safety record

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

88 police-reported crashes at its corners
8.8 a corner, on average
5.2 the average Queens corner
6 corners with a clean record

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland: 364.9 acres of Cunningham Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary

Streets and trees

Trees: 1,675 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, oak and sweetgum
Street with the most corners: Clearview Expressway, with six of the area's 10
Height above sea level: From 89 feet at 73rd Avenue & Hollis Hills Terrace to 146 feet at Cunningham Park Service Road & Grand Central Parkway

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.