Fort Totten

Queens

Fort Totten occupies the point once called Willets Point, at the head of Little Neck Bay where the East River broadens into Long Island Sound.

  • 0.25 square miles
  • 40 street corners
  • 2 bus routes

The federal government bought the Willets family's land in 1857 and began a fort in 1862; renamed in 1898 for Joseph Gilbert Totten, the foremost American fort designer of the early 19th century, it remained an active Army post until 1974. Its castle-like Gothic Revival officers' club, finished in 1887 for the Army's engineering school, is a city landmark and home of the Bayside Historical Society. The grounds now include a public park and training sites for the city's fire and police departments.

Sources: Fort Totten (Queens) (Wikipedia); About BHS (Bayside Historical Society); Willets Point (Wikipedia).

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Fort Totten borders one area, and Sergeant Beers Loop holds more of its corners than any other street, nine of 40.

Street map of Fort Totten, Queens, outlined among Bay Terrace-Clearview, with Fort Totten Park.Bay Terrace-Clearview
  • Fort Totten
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on two routes stop in or at the edge of Fort Totten.

  • 2 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q13
  • Q16

Safety record

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

  • 4 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 0.1 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 36 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 and landmarks

Parkland
61.1 acres of Fort Totten Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Fort Totten
Historic district
Fort Totten Historic District, wholly or partly within Fort Totten

Streets and trees

Trees
462 in NYC Parks' records, most often eastern white pine, maple and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Sergeant Beers Loop, with nine of the area's 40
Height above sea level
From 12 feet at Little Bay Road & Willets Street to 59 feet at Murray Avenue & North Loop

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.