Queens Village

Neighborhood · Queens

Queens Village covers a broad swath of eastern Queens around the crossing of Jamaica Avenue and Springfield Boulevard, at the western end of the flat Hempstead Plains.

  • 2.50 square miles
  • 54,345 residents, 2020 Census
  • 537 street corners
  • 12 bus routes

Founded as Little Plains in the 1640s, it became Brushville after Thomas Brush opened a blacksmith shop in 1824, voted to call itself Queens in 1856 and gained the word Village in 1923, when the Long Island Rail Road renamed its station to avoid confusion with the county. Many of its Dutch Colonial and Tudor houses were built in the 1920s and 1930s.

Sources: Queens Village, Queens (Wikipedia); Quick Trip to Queens Village (Forgotten New York).

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Queens Village borders six areas, and Springfield Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 33 of 537.

Street map of Queens Village, Queens, outlined among Cambria Heights, Bellerose, Hollis and Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, with Wayanda Park.BelleroseCambria HeightsSt. AlbansHollisOakland Gardens-Hollis HillsJamaica Estates-Holliswood
  • Queens Village
  • 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 Queens Village.

  • 11 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q1
  • Q2
  • Q27
  • Q36
  • Q43
  • Q76
  • Q77
  • Q82
  • Q83
  • Q88
  • Q110

Express bus route

  • QM68

Safety record

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

  • 2,531 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 112 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 39 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
27
Accessible pedestrian signals
22
Turn calming
3
Safety Improvement Projects
3

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
  • 31,301 school-zone speed camera tickets at 19 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Francis Lewis Boulevard & 90th Avenue, 4,680

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 54,345 residents in Queens Village, about 21,700 per square mile.

  • 16,752 homes, 2020 Census
  • 144 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 11,409 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 73% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group X), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group V) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VII) developments lie wholly or partly within Queens Village.

FHA Repossessed Houses (Group X)
Partly within Queens Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III)
Partly within Queens Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group II)
Partly within Queens Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group V)
Partly within Queens Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VII)
Partly within Queens Village

Parks

Parkland
6.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Wayanda Park (2.6 acres), Hempstead Ballfield (1.9 acres) and Bellaire Playground (0.8 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
7,786 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and Japanese flowering cherry
Street with the most corners
Springfield Boulevard, with 33 of the area's 537
Height above sea level
From 48 feet at Springfield Boulevard & Murdock Avenue to 166 feet at Bell Boulevard & Spencer Avenue
Honorary street names
7 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 12 schools and one library in Queens Village.

Public schools
5
Charter and private schools
7
Library
Queens Village Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work in Queens Village: Queens Village-Bellerose Memorial (1949).

  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 481 major felonies at places in Queens Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Queens Village

  • 485 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,895 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Queens Village, the NYPD recorded another 42 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Queens Village.

Map of Queens Village: 15 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 Queens 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 Queens Village, 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 Queens 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 Queens Village and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
105th (most of the area), 107th
Major felonies recorded at places in Queens Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 188 major felonies at places in Queens Village, against 231 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.