Middle Village

Neighborhood · Queens

Middle Village lies in central Queens between the Long Island Expressway and Cooper Avenue, west of Woodhaven Boulevard, with large cemeteries such as Mount Olivet and St. John along its edges.

  • 1.25 square miles
  • 34,474 residents, 2020 Census
  • 295 street corners
  • 14 bus routes

Its name, dating from the early 1800s, reflects its position halfway between Williamsburg and Jamaica on the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike, today's Metropolitan Avenue, which opened in 1816, and after the Civil War its population became mostly German. Works Progress Administration crews built Juniper Valley Park in 1941 and 1942 on former swampland once thick with juniper and white cedar.

Sources: Middle Village, Queens (Wikipedia); Juniper Valley Park History (NYC Parks).

Map

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Middle Village borders seven areas, and 80th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 295.

Street map of Middle Village, Queens, outlined among Maspeth, St. John Cemetery, Middle Village Cemetery and Rego Park, with Juniper Valley Park.ElmhurstRego ParkGlendaleMaspeth
  • Middle Village
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

  • Elmhurst north
  • Rego Park northeast
  • St. John Cemetery southeast
  • Middle Village Cemetery south
  • Glendale south
  • Mount Olivet & All Faiths Cemeteries west
  • Maspeth northwest

Getting around

Buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Middle Village.

  • 9 local bus routes
  • 5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q11
  • Q14
  • Q29
  • Q38
  • Q47
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q54
  • Q67

Express bus routes

  • BM5
  • QM15
  • QM24
  • QM25
  • QM34

Safety record

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

  • 804 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 86 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 31 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
18
Accessible pedestrian signals
17
Turn calming
4
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
4

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
  • 8,752 school-zone speed camera tickets at 11 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
69th Street & 62nd Road, 3,211

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 34,474 residents in Middle Village, about 27,600 per square mile.

  • 14,062 homes, 2020 Census
  • 198 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 7,523 residential lots hold buildings from 1940 or earlier, and 40% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
53.5 acres of Juniper Valley Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Middle Village

Streets and trees

Trees
4,880 in NYC Parks' records, most often pin oak, London planetree and Callery pear
Street with the most corners
80th Street, with 23 of the area's 295
Height above sea level
From 43 feet at 86th Street & Eliot Avenue to 132 feet at Eliot Avenue & 67th Street
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists nine schools and one library in Middle Village.

Public schools
6
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Middle Village Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 269 major felonies at places in Middle Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Middle Village

  • 209 major felonies in 2024
  • 661 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Middle Village, the NYPD recorded another 53 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Middle Village.

Map of Middle Village: 9 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 Middle Village, 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 Middle Village, 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 Middle Village 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 Middle Village and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
104th
Major felonies recorded at places in Middle Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 123 major felonies at places in Middle Village, against 118 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.