Rego Park

Neighborhood · Queens

Rego Park lies between Woodhaven Boulevard and Forest Hills, reaching from the Long Island Expressway across Queens Boulevard toward Forest Park.

  • 0.72 square miles
  • 30,741 residents, 2020 Census
  • 121 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 20 bus routes

English and Dutch farmers had settled the area as Whitepot by 1653, and in the 1920s the Real Good Construction Company bought the land, built more than 500 Tudor-style houses and named the development by joining the first two letters of Real and Good. Stores went up on Queens Boulevard in 1926 and apartment buildings followed in 1927-28, and Lost Battalion Hall was built in 1939 as a meeting hall for veterans' groups.

Sources: Rego Park (Wikipedia); Rego Park, Queens (Forgotten New York).

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Rego Park borders six areas, and Alderton Street holds more of its corners than any other street, 26 of 121.

Street map of Rego Park, Queens, outlined among Forest Hills, Middle Village, Elmhurst and St. John Cemetery, with its two subway stations and Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center.CoronaForest HillsGlendaleMiddle VillageElmhurst
  • Rego Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

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

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Woodhaven Blvd lines M R
  • 63 Dr-Rego Park lines M R

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on 20 routes stop in or at the edge of Rego Park.

  • 2 subway stations
  • 12 local bus routes
  • 8 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q11
  • Q14
  • Q23
  • Q29
  • Q38
  • Q52-SBS
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q54
  • Q59
  • Q60
  • Q72
  • Q88

Express bus routes

  • BM5
  • QM10
  • QM11
  • QM12
  • QM15
  • QM18
  • QM40
  • QM42

Safety record

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

  • 971 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 8.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 20 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
16
Accessible pedestrian signals
11
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
2
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 8,382 red-light camera tickets at three corners
  • 8,709 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 76,688 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
Woodhaven Boulevard & Yellowstone Boulevard, 4,216
Most speed tickets
Queens Boulevard & 63rd Drive, 3,110
Most bus-lane tickets
Woodhaven Boulevard & Wetherole Street, 76,045

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 30,741 residents in Rego Park, about 42,700 per square mile.

  • 13,767 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,441 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,416 residential lots hold buildings from 1937 or earlier, and 59% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
5.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center (2.4 acres), the Painter's Playground (1.7 acres) and Horace Harding Playground (1.3 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,467 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Alderton Street, with 26 of the area's 121
Height above sea level
From 15 feet at Junction Boulevard & 62nd Drive to 96 feet at 64th Road & Asquith Crescent
Honorary street name
1 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Rego Park.

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
3
Library
Rego Park Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, eight bike-share stations stand in Rego Park.

  • 8 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 263 major felonies at places in Rego Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Rego Park

  • 200 major felonies in 2024
  • 855 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Rego Park, the NYPD recorded another 77 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 11.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Rego Park.

Police precinct
112th
Major felonies recorded at places in Rego Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 142 major felonies at places in Rego Park, against 133 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.