Jamaica Estates-Holliswood

Neighborhood · Queens

Jamaica Estates-Holliswood spreads across east-central Queens north of Hillside Avenue, from Utopia Parkway east to Francis Lewis Boulevard, on hilly ground shaped by glaciers.

  • 1.41 square miles
  • 23,576 residents, 2020 Census
  • 227 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 24 bus routes

Jamaica Estates began in 1907, when a development company bought 503 acres of moraine for a garden suburb of winding streets and kept many of its trees; Midland Parkway's landscaped malls, with a gatehouse of river stones, came under the Borough President's care in 1917. Holliswood dates to 1884, when Frederick W. Dunton bought 136 acres of farmland, named it for his hometown in New Hampshire and laid out curving roads with Latin and Spanish names such as Palo Alto and Como.

Sources: Jamaica Estates, Queens (Wikipedia); Midland Malls History (NYC Parks); Holliswood, Queens (Wikipedia); Holliswood (Queens Community Board 8).

Map

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Jamaica Estates-Holliswood borders seven areas, and Grand Central Parkway holds more of its corners than any other street, 28 of 227.

Street map of Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Queens, outlined among Cunningham Park, Hollis, Jamaica and Fresh Meadows-Utopia, with its one subway station.Cunningham ParkQueens VillageHollisJamaicaJamaica Hills-BriarwoodPomonok-Electchester-HillcrestFresh Meadows-Utopia
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Jamaica-179 St lines F accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on 24 routes stop in or at the edge of Jamaica Estates-Holliswood.

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 15 local bus routes
  • 9 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q1
  • Q2
  • Q3
  • Q17
  • Q30
  • Q31
  • Q36
  • Q43
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q75
  • Q76
  • Q77
  • Q82

Express bus routes

  • QM1
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM31
  • QM35
  • QM36
  • QM68

Safety record

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

  • 990 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 76 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 26 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
15
Leading pedestrian intervals
14
Turn calming
8
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 1,421 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 38,827 school-zone speed camera tickets at 14 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Francis Lewis Boulevard & Hillside Avenue, 1,421

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,576 residents in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, about 16,700 per square mile.

  • 9,000 homes, 2020 Census
  • 469 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,209 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 33% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
0.3 acre of McLaughlin Playground, as NYC Parks maps it within Jamaica Estates-Holliswood

Streets and trees

Trees
4,205 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Grand Central Parkway, with 28 of the area's 227
Height above sea level
From 57 feet at Union Turnpike & 179th Street to 183 feet at Dunton Street & Romeo Court
Honorary street names
3 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood.

Public schools
2
Charter and private schools
6
Library
Hollis Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood: Jamaica Estates (1950).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 230 major felonies at places in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood

  • 194 major felonies in 2024
  • 404 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, the NYPD recorded another 99 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 14.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood.

Map of Jamaica Estates-Holliswood: 7 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 Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, 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 Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, 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 Jamaica Estates-Holliswood 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 Jamaica Estates-Holliswood and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
107th
Major felonies recorded at places in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 82 major felonies at places in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, against 108 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.