Jackson Heights

Neighborhood · Queens

Jackson Heights lies in northwestern Queens north of Roosevelt Avenue, between the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Junction Boulevard.

  • 1.41 square miles
  • 101,848 residents, 2020 Census
  • 253 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 13 bus routes

A development company formed in 1909 built it on undeveloped farmland in the Trains Meadow section of old Newtown, named it for Jackson Avenue and coined the term garden apartment for its buildings set around private parks; settlement picked up after the elevated line on Roosevelt Avenue opened in 1917. Nearly 600 buildings from about 76th to 88th Streets form the Jackson Heights Historic District, designated in 1993. The New York Times has described Jackson Heights as New York's most culturally diverse neighborhood.

Sources: Jackson Heights Historic District (designation report, October 19, 1993; copy) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Jackson Heights (Wikipedia).

Map

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Jackson Heights borders seven areas, and 37th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 30 of 253.

Street map of Jackson Heights, Queens, outlined among Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, North Corona and St. Michael's Cemetery, with its four subway stations and Travers Park.Astoria (North)-Ditmars-SteinwayEast ElmhurstNorth CoronaElmhurstWoodsideAstoria (East)-Woodside (North)
  • Jackson Heights
  • 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

  • Junction Blvd lines 7 accessible
  • 90 St-Elmhurst Av lines 7
  • 82 St-Jackson Hts lines 7
  • 74 St-Broadway / Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av lines 7 E F M R accessible

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 13 routes stop in or at the edge of Jackson Heights.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 13 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • M60-SBS
  • Q19
  • Q29
  • Q32
  • Q33
  • Q47
  • Q49
  • Q63
  • Q66
  • Q69
  • Q70-SBS
  • Q72
  • T320

Safety record

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

  • 2,946 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 11.6 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 12 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 143 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
129
Accessible pedestrian signals
53
Turn calming
17
Safety Improvement Projects
5
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4

Camera tickets

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

  • 14,563 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 9,134 school-zone speed camera tickets at 14 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
77th Street & Astoria Boulevard South, 14,563
Most speed tickets
77th Street & 30th Avenue, 3,121

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 101,848 residents in Jackson Heights, about 72,200 per square mile.

  • 37,428 homes, 2020 Census
  • 608 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,360 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 50% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
12.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Travers Park (2 acres), LaGuardia Landing Lights (1.8 acres) and Northern Playground (1.7 acres)
Historic district
Jackson Heights Historic District, wholly or partly within Jackson Heights

Streets and trees

Trees
5,956 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
37th Avenue, with 30 of the area's 253
Height above sea level
From 21 feet at 31st Avenue & 73rd Street to 81 feet at 32nd Avenue & 85th Street
Honorary street names
23 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 16 schools and one library in Jackson Heights.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
6
Library
Jackson Heights Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 43 bike-share stations stand in Jackson Heights.

  • 43 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 812 major felonies at places in Jackson Heights.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Jackson Heights

  • 1,024 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,702 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Jackson Heights, the NYPD recorded another 349 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.4 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Jackson Heights.

Map of Jackson Heights: 24 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 Jackson Heights, 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 Jackson Heights, 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 Jackson Heights 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 Jackson Heights and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
115th
Major felonies recorded at places in Jackson Heights, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 379 major felonies at places in Jackson Heights, against 419 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.