Howard Beach-Lindenwood

Neighborhood · Queens

On Jamaica Bay, Howard Beach-Lindenwood lies between the Brooklyn border and Kennedy Airport, south of Ozone Park.

  • 1.89 square miles
  • 27,320 residents, 2020 Census
  • 317 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 10 bus routes

Brooklyn glove maker William J. Howard started a goat farm on the meadows here in 1897 to supply kid-glove leather, a beach and fishing pier followed in 1915, and the community became Howard Beach in 1916. Its sections include Old Howard Beach, where Howard built his hotel, and waterside Hamilton Beach and Ramblersville, while Lindenwood rose on landfill in the 1950s and 1960s with garden apartments and brick apartment buildings. The Howard Beach station links the A train with AirTrain JFK.

Sources: Howard Beach (Wikipedia); Queens Community Board 10; AirTrain JFK - JFK Airport (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey).

Map

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Howard Beach-Lindenwood borders five areas, and 157th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 29 of 320.

Street map of Howard Beach-Lindenwood, Queens, outlined among Spring Creek Park, East New York-City Line, Ozone Park and John F. Kennedy International Airport, with its one subway station and Spring Creek Park Addition.Ozone ParkSouth Ozone ParkJohn F. Kennedy International AirportEast New York-City Line
  • Howard Beach-Lindenwood
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Howard Beach-JFK Airport lines A accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Howard Beach-Lindenwood.

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes
  • 4 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B15
  • Q7
  • Q11
  • Q41
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS

Express bus routes

  • BM5
  • QM15
  • QM16
  • QM17

Safety record

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

  • 1,067 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 3.3 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 129 corners with a clean record

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

Accessible pedestrian signals
4
Leading pedestrian intervals
3
Turn calming
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.

  • 5,282 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 151,314 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
North Conduit Avenue & 88th Street, 101,974

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 27,320 residents in Howard Beach-Lindenwood, about 14,500 per square mile.

  • 11,372 homes, 2020 Census
  • 132 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,176 residential lots hold buildings from 1960 or earlier, and 18% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
52.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Spring Creek Park Addition (40.1 acres), Gemini Fields (10.8 acres) and Harold Schneiderman Playground (0.9 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
5,525 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Callery pear and pin oak
Street with the most corners
157th Avenue, with 29 of the area's 320
Height above sea level
From 3 feet at Broadway & Bayview Avenue to 27 feet at Cross Bay Boulevard & South Conduit Avenue
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in Howard Beach-Lindenwood.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Howard Beach Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 316 major felonies at places in Howard Beach-Lindenwood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Howard Beach-Lindenwood

  • 276 major felonies in 2024
  • 780 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Howard Beach-Lindenwood, the NYPD recorded another 17 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.2 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Howard Beach-Lindenwood.

Map of Howard Beach-Lindenwood: 13 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 Howard Beach-Lindenwood, 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 Howard Beach-Lindenwood, 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 Howard Beach-Lindenwood 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 Howard Beach-Lindenwood and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
106th (most of the area), 75th
Major felonies recorded at places in Howard Beach-Lindenwood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 142 major felonies at places in Howard Beach-Lindenwood, against 126 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.