East Flushing

Neighborhood · Queens

East Flushing, part of greater Flushing in north-central Queens, lies east of Kissena Boulevard and reaches south to Kissena Park.

  • 1.14 square miles
  • 34,704 residents, 2020 Census
  • 208 street corners
  • 7 bus routes

Many of its avenues run alphabetically by plant name, from Ash Avenue to Rose Avenue, a legacy of the Prince nursery and its rivals, which made Flushing home to North America's first commercial tree nurseries. Flushing Cemetery, chartered in 1853, is the resting place of musicians Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges. On Bowne Street, the Hindu Temple Society of North America's South Indian-style temple, consecrated in 1977, was one of the first Hindu temples built in North America.

Sources: Flushing from A-R. Avenues with plant names in Queens (Forgotten New York); Flushing, Queens (Wikipedia); Flushing Cemetery (Wikipedia); Hindu Temple Society of North America (City Lore).

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East Flushing borders five areas, and 45th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 27 of 208.

Street map of East Flushing, Queens, outlined among Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Kissena Park, Auburndale and Flushing-Willets Point, with the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground.Murray Hill-Broadway FlushingAuburndaleQueensboro HillFlushing-Willets Point
  • East Flushing
  • 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 seven routes stop in or at the edge of East Flushing.

  • 7 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q12
  • Q13
  • Q17
  • Q25
  • Q26
  • Q27
  • Q65

Safety record

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

  • 838 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 28 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 15 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
12
Accessible pedestrian signals
10
Turn calming
4
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
  • 15,610 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Northern Boulevard & 170th Street, 6,813

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 34,704 residents in East Flushing, about 30,400 per square mile.

  • 12,089 homes, 2020 Census
  • 669 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,681 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 50% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
4.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
The Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground (3.1 acres), Kissena Park (0.9 acre) and Plaut Triangle (0.3 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,970 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
45th Avenue, with 27 of the area's 208
Height above sea level
From 13 feet at Robinson Street & Rose Avenue to 92 feet at 149th Street & Ash Avenue
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists six schools in East Flushing.

Public schools
5
Charter or private school
1

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 202 major felonies at places in East Flushing.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in East Flushing

  • 216 major felonies in 2024
  • 439 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of East Flushing, the NYPD recorded another 74 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in East Flushing.

Map of East Flushing: 8 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 Flushing, 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 Flushing, most about 1,250 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 Flushing 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 Flushing and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
109th
Major felonies recorded at places in East Flushing, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 84 major felonies at places in East Flushing, against 92 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.