Laurelton

Neighborhood · Queens

Laurelton lies in Queens between Springfield Boulevard and the Laurelton Parkway, north of Conduit Avenue.

  • 1.43 square miles
  • 26,088 residents, 2020 Census
  • 299 street corners
  • 9 bus routes

Woods, ponds and farms covered the land when the colonies declared independence, and in the early 1900s developer Dean Alvord laid out a suburb modeled on an English village around a Long Island Rail Road station built in 1907 and named for the laurels that grew there. The neighborhood is known for its attached and detached Tudor-style houses and for streets divided by planted, tree-shaded center malls.

Sources: Laurelton, Queens (Wikipedia); Laurelton station (Wikipedia); Laurelton (Roberta Kossoff and Annette Henkin Landau, Arcadia Publishing, 2011) (Bookshare).

Map

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Laurelton borders six areas, and 137th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 299.

Street map of Laurelton, Queens, outlined among Rosedale, Montefiore Cemetery, St. Albans and Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville, with Montbellier Park.Cambria HeightsRosedaleSpringfield Gardens (South)-BrookvilleSpringfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale VillageSt. Albans
  • Laurelton
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on nine routes stop in or at the edge of Laurelton.

  • 7 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q5
  • Q77
  • Q84
  • Q85
  • Q86
  • Q87
  • Q89

Express bus routes

  • QM63
  • QM65

Safety record

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

  • 1,184 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 66 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
5
Accessible pedestrian signals
2
Turn calming
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 28,100 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Francis Lewis Boulevard & 128th Avenue, 11,060

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 26,088 residents in Laurelton, about 18,200 per square mile.

  • 8,745 homes, 2020 Census
  • 119 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 6,238 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 48% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III) developments lie wholly or partly within Laurelton.

FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII)
Partly within Laurelton
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III)
Partly within Laurelton

Parks

Parkland
4.4 acres of Montbellier Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Laurelton

Streets and trees

Trees
4,325 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Norway maple and pin oak
Street with the most corners
137th Avenue, with 23 of the area's 299
Height above sea level
From 13 feet at 225th Street & 141st Road to 45 feet at 234th Street & 121st Avenue
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Laurelton.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Laurelton Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 208 major felonies at places in Laurelton.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Laurelton

  • 249 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,152 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Laurelton, the NYPD recorded another 26 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Laurelton.

Map of Laurelton: 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 Laurelton, 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 Laurelton, 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 Laurelton 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 Laurelton and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
116th
Major felonies recorded at places in Laurelton, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 101 major felonies at places in Laurelton, against 89 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.