Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills

Neighborhood · Queens

Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills follows the East River shore of Long Island City north of the Queensboro Bridge and reaches inland through Dutch Kills around Queens Plaza.

  • 0.99 square miles
  • 32,954 residents, 2020 Census
  • 159 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

Dutch Kills began as a hamlet named for a navigable branch of Newtown Creek, and Ravenswood, a strip along the river, saw mansions go up from 1848; both became part of Long Island City in 1870. The Queensbridge Houses, opened in 1939 and named for the bridge, are the largest public housing project in the United States, and Vernon Boulevard is home to the Noguchi Museum, which opened in 1985.

Sources: Long Island City (Wikipedia); Astoria, Queens (Wikipedia); Affordable New York: Queensbridge Houses (Museum of the City of New York); Timeline (The Noguchi Museum).

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Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills borders six areas, and 37th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 24 of 159.

Street map of Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, Queens, outlined among Astoria (Central), Long Island City-Hunters Point, Old Astoria-Hallets Point and Sunnyside Yards (North), with its six subway stations and Queensbridge Park.Old Astoria-Hallets PointAstoria (Central)Sunnyside Yards (North)Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)Sunnyside Yards (South)Long Island City-Hunters Point
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 36 Av lines N W
  • 21 St-Queensbridge lines M accessible
  • 39 Av-Dutch Kills lines N W
  • 36 St lines M R
  • Queensboro Plaza lines 7 N W accessible
  • Queens Plaza lines E F R accessible

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B62
  • Q32
  • Q60
  • Q63
  • Q66
  • Q69
  • Q96
  • Q100
  • Q101
  • Q102
  • Q103
  • Q104
  • Q108
  • T320

Safety record

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

  • 1,385 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 10 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 37 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
30
Leading pedestrian intervals
22
Safety Improvement Projects
6
Turn calming
3
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2

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
  • 6,426 school-zone speed camera tickets at seven corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
21st Street & 33rd Road, 2,575

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,954 residents in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, about 33,300 per square mile.

  • 14,903 homes, 2020 Census
  • 6,854 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,194 residential lots hold buildings from 1930 or earlier, and 61% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Queensbridge North, Queensbridge South and Ravenswood developments lie wholly or partly within Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
40.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Queensbridge Park (20.3 acres), Rainey Park (9.1 acres) and Socrates Sculpture Park (4.6 acres)
Designated landmarks
The Barkin, Levin & Company Office Pavilion; and the Bank of the Manhattan Company Building

Streets and trees

Trees
3,347 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
37th Avenue, with 24 of the area's 159
Height above sea level
From 7 feet at Vernon Boulevard & 31st Drive to 47 feet at 36th Avenue & 30th Street
Honorary street names
12 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and three libraries in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
5
Libraries
Long Island City Library, Queensbridge Library and Ravenswood Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 24 bike-share stations stand in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills. The City's public art inventory lists one work in the area: Diagonal Sonata (2007).

  • 24 bike-share stations
  • 1 work of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 546 major felonies at places in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills

  • 593 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,573 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, the NYPD recorded another 80 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 19.0 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills.

Map of Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills: 10 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 Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, 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 Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, 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 Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills 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 Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
114th (most of the area), 108th
Major felonies recorded at places in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 254 major felonies at places in Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, against 271 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.