Queensboro Hill

Neighborhood · Queens

Named for the county of Queens, Queensboro Hill lies between College Point Boulevard on the west and the Long Island Expressway on the south, with Kissena Park and Kissena Corridor Park to the north, and it is often called South Flushing.

  • 0.95 square miles
  • 23,638 residents, 2020 Census
  • 190 street corners
  • 11 bus routes

NewYork-Presbyterian Queens on Main Street opened here on February 5, 1957, as the Salvation Army's 210-bed Booth Memorial Hospital, whose roots went back to an 1892 home for women in East Harlem. Around then, North Hempstead Turnpike was renamed Booth Memorial Avenue, which runs through the neighborhood. The hospital took its present name in 2015.

Sources: Flushing, Queens (Wikipedia); The Names of the Neighborhoods of Queens, Part 2 (Forgotten New York); NewYork-Presbyterian Queens (Wikipedia).

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Queensboro Hill borders nine areas, and Horace Harding Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, 32 of 190.

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  • Queensboro Hill
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of Queensboro Hill.

  • 9 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q17
  • Q20
  • Q25
  • Q44-SBS
  • Q58
  • Q65
  • Q74
  • Q88
  • Q98

Express bus routes

  • QM4
  • QM44

Safety record

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

  • 1,021 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 27 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 17 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
9
Accessible pedestrian signals
5
Turn calming
4
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 583 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 17,754 school-zone speed camera tickets at nine corners
  • 2,233 bus-lane camera tickets at one corner
Most red-light tickets
Kissena Boulevard & Booth Memorial Avenue, 583
Most speed tickets
Main Street & 146th Street, 7,452
Most bus-lane tickets
Main Street & Booth Memorial Avenue, 2,233

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 23,638 residents in Queensboro Hill, about 24,900 per square mile.

  • 7,558 homes, 2020 Census
  • 553 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,180 residential lots hold buildings from 1950 or earlier, and 20% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
70.6 acres of Kissena Corridor Park, as NYC Parks maps it within Queensboro Hill

Streets and trees

Trees
3,370 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Horace Harding Expressway, with 32 of the area's 190
Height above sea level
From 10 feet at College Point Boulevard & 57th Road to 82 feet at 164th Street & 59th Avenue
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists three schools and one library in Queensboro Hill.

Public schools
2
Charter or private school
1
Library
Queensboro Hill Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 262 major felonies at places in Queensboro Hill.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Queensboro Hill

  • 226 major felonies in 2024
  • 444 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Queensboro Hill, the NYPD recorded another 42 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.9 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Queensboro Hill.

Police precincts
109th (most of the area), 107th
Major felonies recorded at places in Queensboro Hill, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 87 major felonies at places in Queensboro Hill, against 116 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.