Richmond Hill

Neighborhood · Queens

On the south-facing slope below Forest Park, Richmond Hill spreads across southwestern Queens between Woodhaven on the west and Jamaica on the east, with Kew Gardens to the north and Atlantic Avenue marking its line with South Richmond Hill.

  • 1.09 square miles
  • 34,100 residents, 2020 Census
  • 203 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Its story began in 1868, when Manhattan lawyer Albon Platt Man bought the Lefferts, Welling and Bergen farms and hired landscape architect Edward Richmond to lay out the community; the name is traced either to him or to a town near London. Many of its large frame houses from the late 1800s and early 1900s, including Queen Anne Victorians, still stand.

Sources: Richmond Hill, Queens (Wikipedia); Neighborhoods (Queens Community Board 9); Homes (Richmond Hill Historical Society); Noteworthy People (Richmond Hill Historical Society).

Map

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Richmond Hill borders six areas, and Jamaica Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 35 of 203.

Street map of Richmond Hill, Queens, outlined among Kew Gardens, South Richmond Hill, Forest Park and Woodhaven, with its four subway stations.Kew GardensJamaicaSouth Richmond HillOzone Park (North)WoodhavenForest Park
  • Richmond Hill
  • 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

  • Jamaica-Van Wyck lines E accessible
  • 121 St lines J Z
  • 111 St lines J
  • 104 St lines J Z

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Richmond Hill.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 9 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • J90
  • Q10
  • Q24
  • Q37
  • Q54
  • Q55
  • Q56
  • Q80
  • T340

Express bus route

  • QM18

Safety record

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

  • 1,209 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.0 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 21 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 46 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
35
Accessible pedestrian signals
18
Turn calming
4
Safety Improvement Projects
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.

  • 281 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 20,002 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
111th Street & Atlantic Avenue, 258
Most speed tickets
Atlantic Avenue & 132nd Street, 8,852

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 34,100 residents in Richmond Hill, about 31,300 per square mile.

  • 10,835 homes, 2020 Census
  • 281 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,533 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 93% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Landmarks

Designated landmarks
The Richmond Hill Republican Club and Public School 66

Streets and trees

Trees
3,662 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, Japanese flowering cherry and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
Jamaica Avenue, with 35 of the area's 203
Height above sea level
From 41 feet at 89th Avenue & 98th Street to 91 feet at 112th Street & Park Lane South
Honorary street names
11 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists eight schools and one library in Richmond Hill.

Public schools
7
Charter or private school
1
Library
Richmond Hill Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 227 major felonies at places in Richmond Hill.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Richmond Hill

  • 287 major felonies in 2024 60 fewer in 2025
  • 874 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Richmond Hill, the NYPD recorded another 67 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Richmond Hill.

Police precinct
102nd
Major felonies recorded at places in Richmond Hill, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 137 major felonies at places in Richmond Hill, against 103 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.