Hollis

Neighborhood · Queens

Between Jamaica and Queens Village in southeast Queens, Hollis is a residential neighborhood whose first European settlers were Dutch homesteaders in the 1600s.

  • 0.88 square miles
  • 24,576 residents, 2020 Census
  • 186 street corners
  • 13 bus routes

During the Battle of Long Island in 1776, an American militia general was captured at a tavern on the Jamaica road here. In the 1880s developer Frederick W. Dunton began building houses on the farmland and named the area for Hollis, New Hampshire, where he had grown up. In more recent times Hollis has been celebrated as one of the birthplaces of hip-hop, the hometown of pioneering rap artists of the 1980s.

Sources: Run DMC and the Revolution: Historic Hollis, Queens (The Bowery Boys); Hollis, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Hollis borders four areas, and Jamaica Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 19 of 186.

Street map of Hollis, Queens, outlined among St. Albans, Queens Village, Jamaica Estates-Holliswood and Jamaica, with Haggerty Park.Queens VillageSt. AlbansJamaicaJamaica Estates-Holliswood
  • Hollis
  • 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 Hollis.

  • 12 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q1
  • Q2
  • Q3
  • Q4
  • Q17
  • Q36
  • Q43
  • Q76
  • Q77
  • Q82
  • Q83
  • Q110

Express bus route

  • QM68

Safety record

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

  • 1,015 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.5 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 8 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 11 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
9
Accessible pedestrian signals
6
Turn calming
1
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.

  • 1,897 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 11,936 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Hillside Avenue & 188th Street, 1,897
Most speed tickets
Hillside Avenue & 192nd Street, 4,167

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 24,576 residents in Hollis, about 27,900 per square mile.

  • 7,493 homes, 2020 Census
  • 127 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,953 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 83% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
4.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Haggerty Park (3.9 acres) and Hollis Playground (1 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,074 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Jamaica Avenue, with 19 of the area's 186
Height above sea level
From 44 feet at 196th Street & Hollis Avenue to 90 feet at Hillside Avenue & 205th Street
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Hollis.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
2
Library
South Hollis Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 250 major felonies at places in Hollis.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Hollis

  • 244 major felonies in 2024
  • 801 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Hollis, the NYPD recorded another 55 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Hollis.

Map of Hollis: 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 Hollis, 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 Hollis, 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 Hollis 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 Hollis and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
103rd (most of the area), 113th
Major felonies recorded at places in Hollis, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 117 major felonies at places in Hollis, against 106 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.