Flushing-Willets Point

Neighborhood · Queens

Flushing-Willets Point spans the Flushing River, pairing downtown Flushing on its eastern shore with the Willets Point district on its western shore, between Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue.

  • 1.38 square miles
  • 69,879 residents, 2020 Census
  • 227 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 24 bus routes

Founded in 1645 under a Dutch West India Company charter as Vlissingen, Flushing is where residents approved the Flushing Remonstrance of 1657, a petition making the case for religious freedom, and Bowne House on Bowne Street, built about 1661, is where John Bowne held Quaker meetings. Flushing Town Hall, begun in 1862, was restored over nine years from 1990 and is now an arts center. Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue anchor Flushing's Chinatown, one of the largest in the world.

Sources: Flushing, Queens (Wikipedia); Willets Point (Wikipedia); Mission, Vision & Organizational History (Flushing Town Hall); Welcome to Bowne House (Bowne House Historical Society).

Map

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Flushing-Willets Point borders five areas, and College Point Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 24 of 227.

Street map of Flushing-Willets Point, Queens, outlined among Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, East Flushing and College Point, with its one subway station and Kissena Corridor Park.College PointMurray Hill-Broadway FlushingEast FlushingQueensboro HillFlushing Meadows-Corona Park
  • Flushing-Willets Point
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Flushing-Main St lines 7 accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on 24 routes stop in or at the edge of Flushing-Willets Point.

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 21 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q12
  • Q13
  • Q15
  • Q16
  • Q17
  • Q19
  • Q20
  • Q25
  • Q26
  • Q27
  • Q28
  • Q44-SBS
  • Q50
  • Q58
  • Q61
  • Q63
  • Q65
  • Q66
  • Q90
  • Q98
  • T321

Express bus routes

  • QM2
  • QM20
  • QM32

Safety record

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

  • 2,884 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 12.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 32 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 69 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
39
Turn calming
38
Accessible pedestrian signals
32
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
11
Safety Improvement Projects
6

Camera tickets

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

  • 395 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 11,083 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 30,384 bus-lane camera tickets at six corners
Most red-light tickets
Roosevelt Avenue & College Point Boulevard, 395
Most bus-lane tickets
37th Avenue & Main Street, 17,035

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 69,879 residents in Flushing-Willets Point, about 50,600 per square mile.

  • 28,551 homes, 2020 Census
  • 5,174 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,543 residential lots hold buildings from 1970 or earlier, and 21% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Bland and Latimer Gardens developments lie wholly or partly within Flushing-Willets Point, as does one more that NYCHA names by a building's address.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
49.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Kissena Corridor Park (34.5 acres), Flushing Meadows Corona Park (7.1 acres) and Margaret I. Carman Green - Weeping Beech (2.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
Saint George's Church (Old Parish House), Saint George's Church, the Friends Meeting House and the Flushing Town Hall, among others

Streets and trees

Trees
2,861 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, thornless honeylocust and London planetree
Street with the most corners
College Point Boulevard, with 24 of the area's 227
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at 40th Road & Delong Street to 78 feet at Parsons Boulevard & Sanford Avenue
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and two libraries in Flushing-Willets Point.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
2
Libraries
Flushing Library and Mitchell-Linden Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists three works in Flushing-Willets Point: Flushing Park Memorial (1865), Flushing Memorial (1925) and Goldenrain Corners (about 2004).

  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 929 major felonies at places in Flushing-Willets Point.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Flushing-Willets Point

  • 1,205 major felonies in 2024 276 fewer in 2025
  • 3,274 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Flushing-Willets Point, the NYPD recorded another 73 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 14.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Flushing-Willets Point.

Map of Flushing-Willets Point: 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 Flushing-Willets Point, 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 Flushing-Willets Point, 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 Flushing-Willets Point 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 Flushing-Willets Point and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
109th (most of the area), 110th
Major felonies recorded at places in Flushing-Willets Point, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 406 major felonies at places in Flushing-Willets Point, against 453 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.