Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest

Neighborhood · Queens

Between Flushing and Jamaica, Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest lies east of Kissena Boulevard and south of the Long Island Expressway.

  • 1.33 square miles
  • 35,669 residents, 2020 Census
  • 201 street corners
  • 21 bus routes

Pomonok's name comes from a Native American word for land on Long Island, and from 1921 to 1949 the area held the Pomonok Country Club, host of the 1939 PGA Championship. After the club was sold in 1949, its grounds became the Pomonok Houses, opened by the City Housing Authority in 1951, and Electchester, about 2,500 apartments built by the electrical workers' union Local 3. Hillcrest, named for its hills, is home to St. John's University, whose campus rose on a former golf club after a 1954 groundbreaking.

Sources: Pomonok, Queens (Wikipedia); Pomonok Playground History (NYC Parks); Hillcrest (Queens Community Board 8); St. John's University (New York City) (Wikipedia).

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Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest borders five areas, and 164th Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 20 of 201.

Street map of Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens, outlined among Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Kew Gardens Hills, Jamaica Hills-Briarwood and Queensboro Hill, with Pomonok Playground.Fresh Meadows-UtopiaJamaica Estates-HolliswoodJamaica Hills-BriarwoodKew Gardens HillsQueensboro Hill
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 21 routes stop in or at the edge of Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest.

  • 12 local bus routes
  • 9 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q17
  • Q25
  • Q30
  • Q31
  • Q45
  • Q46
  • Q48
  • Q64
  • Q65
  • Q74
  • Q75
  • Q88

Express bus routes

  • QM1
  • QM4
  • QM5
  • QM6
  • QM7
  • QM8
  • QM31
  • QM35
  • QM44

Safety record

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

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

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 23 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
18
Accessible pedestrian signals
9
Turn calming
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 8,778 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 16,213 school-zone speed camera tickets at 11 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Horace Harding Expressway & 159th Street, 8,740
Most speed tickets
Union Turnpike & 175th Street, 6,885

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 35,669 residents in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, about 26,800 per square mile.

  • 12,653 homes, 2020 Census
  • 829 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,351 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 28% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA development

NYCHA's Pomonok development lies wholly or partly within Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest.

Parks

Parkland
7.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Pomonok Playground (3.6 acres), Electric Playground (1.7 acres) and Emerald Playground (1.3 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,683 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
164th Street, with 20 of the area's 201
Height above sea level
From 38 feet at 69th Avenue & Fresh Meadow Lane to 123 feet at Grand Central Parkway & 166th Street
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and one library in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest.

Public schools
7
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Pomonok Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest: Roof Sculpture for 107th Police Precinct (1992).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 281 major felonies at places in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest

  • 246 major felonies in 2024
  • 965 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, the NYPD recorded another 88 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest.

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

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 125 major felonies at places in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, against 144 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.