East Elmhurst

Neighborhood · Queens

East Elmhurst stretches across northwestern Queens from Jackson Heights east toward Flushing Bay, between Northern Boulevard and the Grand Central Parkway, with LaGuardia Airport just beyond the parkway.

  • 1.03 square miles
  • 33,573 residents, 2020 Census
  • 177 street corners
  • 13 bus routes

From colonial times into the early 1900s much of the land was a broad marsh called Trains Meadow, part of the town of Newtown, and an amusement park on the Bowery Bay shore to the north later gave way to the airfield that became LaGuardia Airport, whose formal opening came in 1939. On Northern Boulevard, the Queens Public Library's Langston Hughes branch is home to the Black Heritage Reference Center of Queens County.

Sources: East Elmhurst, Queens (Wikipedia); Jackson Heights Historic District (designation report, October 19, 1993; copy) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Langston Hughes (Queens Public Library).

Map

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East Elmhurst borders four areas, and 25th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 25 of 177.

Street map of East Elmhurst, Queens, outlined among LaGuardia Airport, Jackson Heights, North Corona and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, with Helen Marshall Playground.LaGuardia AirportFlushing Meadows-Corona ParkNorth CoronaJackson Heights
  • East Elmhurst
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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 East Elmhurst.

  • 13 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M60-SBS
  • Q14
  • Q19
  • Q23
  • Q33
  • Q47
  • Q49
  • Q63
  • Q66
  • Q69
  • Q70-SBS
  • Q72
  • Q90

Safety record

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

  • 1,384 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 17 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 23 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Leading pedestrian intervals
16
Turn calming
3
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.

  • 9,476 red-light camera tickets at four corners
  • 23,298 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Northern Boulevard & 114th Street, 3,643
Most speed tickets
108th Street & Astoria Boulevard, 8,071

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 33,573 residents in East Elmhurst, about 32,600 per square mile.

  • 9,940 homes, 2020 Census
  • 588 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,467 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 57% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
13.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Helen Marshall Playground (4.2 acres), Gorman Playground (2.9 acres) and Overlook Park (2.6 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,425 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and green ash
Street with the most corners
25th Avenue, with 25 of the area's 177
Height above sea level
From 20 feet at 88th Street & Astoria Boulevard to 92 feet at 32nd Avenue & 106th Street
Honorary street names
12 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists four schools and two libraries in East Elmhurst.

Public schools
4
Libraries
East Elmhurst Library and Langston Hughes Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 26 bike-share stations stand in East Elmhurst.

  • 26 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 332 major felonies at places in East Elmhurst.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Elmhurst

  • 418 major felonies in 2024 86 fewer in 2025
  • 1,050 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Elmhurst, the NYPD recorded another 67 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Elmhurst.

Map of East Elmhurst: 11 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 East Elmhurst, 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 East Elmhurst, 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 East Elmhurst 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 East Elmhurst and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
115th
Major felonies recorded at places in East Elmhurst, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 131 major felonies at places in East Elmhurst, against 162 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.