Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills

Neighborhood · Queens

Two parks frame Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Cunningham Park on the west and Alley Pond Park on the east, and the area reaches from the Long Island Expressway south to the Grand Central Parkway.

  • 1.42 square miles
  • 25,249 residents, 2020 Census
  • 208 street corners
  • 12 bus routes

Oakland Gardens, which many people call southern Bayside, runs south to Union Turnpike; its name is traced either to The Oaks, a Lawrence family mansion of the 1840s, or to nearby Oakland Lake, the largest of the area's glacial kettle ponds. Hollis Hills, just north of the Grand Central Parkway, is mostly made up of detached Colonial, Tudor and ranch-style houses set on roomy, tree-lined lots.

Sources: Bayside, Queens (Wikipedia); Queens Village, Queens (Wikipedia); The Names of the Neighborhoods of Queens, Part 2 (Forgotten New York).

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Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills borders five areas, and 64th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 21 of 208.

Street map of Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Queens, outlined among Alley Pond Park, Cunningham Park, Bayside and Queens Village, with Motor Parkway.BaysideAlley Pond ParkBelleroseQueens VillageCunningham Park
  • Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 12 routes stop in or at the edge of Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills.

  • 7 local bus routes
  • 5 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q27
  • Q30
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q74
  • Q75
  • Q88

Express bus routes

  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM8
  • QM35
  • QM36

Safety record

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

  • 577 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 2.8 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 90 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 12 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
10
Leading pedestrian intervals
7
Turn calming
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
  • 7,780 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Springfield Boulevard & 67th Avenue, 2,362

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 25,249 residents in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, about 17,800 per square mile.

  • 10,546 homes, 2020 Census
  • 205 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,053 residential lots hold buildings from 1950 or earlier, and 2% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
31.2 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Motor Parkway (13.9 acres), Cunningham Park (10.7 acres) and Alley Park (2.3 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,843 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
64th Avenue, with 21 of the area's 208
Height above sea level
From 71 feet at 210th Street & 64th Avenue to 208 feet at 76th Road & Cloverdale Boulevard
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills.

Public schools
6
Charter or private school
1
Library
Windsor Park Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills: Firefighting Mosaic (1984).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 259 major felonies at places in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills

  • 199 major felonies in 2024
  • 391 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, the NYPD recorded another 27 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills.

Police precinct
111th
Major felonies recorded at places in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 89 major felonies at places in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, against 125 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.