Rosedale

Neighborhood · Queens

At the eastern edge of New York City, Rosedale borders Laurelton, Springfield Gardens and Kennedy Airport on the west and the Nassau County communities of Valley Stream, North Woodmere, Inwood and Lawrence on the east and south.

  • 1.69 square miles
  • 27,101 residents, 2020 Census
  • 314 street corners
  • 10 bus routes

It was first known as Foster's Meadow, after John Foster, an early British settler, and much of it remained farmland until the mid-1930s. Brookville Park, 90 acres along the neighborhood's western edge, holds Conselyea's Pond in its landscaped section and wild, undeveloped land to the south.

Sources: Rosedale, Queens (Wikipedia); Rosedale: Queens' Beginning and End (Brownstoner); Brookville Park and the Ghost Train (Brownstoner).

Map

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Rosedale borders four areas, and Hook Creek Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 39 of 314.

Street map of Rosedale, Queens, outlined among Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville, Laurelton, John F. Kennedy International Airport and Cambria Heights, with Hook Creek Park.LaureltonCambria HeightsSpringfield Gardens (South)-BrookvilleJohn F. Kennedy International Airport
  • Rosedale
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Rosedale.

  • 9 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q5
  • Q84
  • Q85
  • Q86
  • Q87
  • Q89
  • Q111
  • Q113
  • Q114

Express bus route

  • QM63

Safety record

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

  • 1,551 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 4.9 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 71 corners with a clean record

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

Accessible pedestrian signals
6
Leading pedestrian intervals
5
Turn calming
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 4,401 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 57,072 school-zone speed camera tickets at 19 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Rockaway Boulevard & Brookville Boulevard, 3,551
Most speed tickets
South Conduit Avenue & Memphis Avenue, 24,126

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 27,101 residents in Rosedale, about 16,000 per square mile.

  • 8,709 homes, 2020 Census
  • 235 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 5,167 residential lots hold buildings from 1950 or earlier, and 27% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
145.6 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Hook Creek Park (111.2 acres), Idlewild Park (31.4 acres) and Laurelton Playground (2 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
5,245 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and Norway maple
Street with the most corners
Hook Creek Boulevard, with 39 of the area's 314
Height above sea level
From 2 feet at 1st Street & Meyer Avenue to 41 feet at Hook Creek Boulevard & 128th Drive
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists seven schools and one library in Rosedale.

Public schools
3
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Rosedale Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 223 major felonies at places in Rosedale.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Rosedale

  • 223 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,005 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Rosedale, the NYPD recorded another seven major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Rosedale.

Map of Rosedale: 8 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 Rosedale, 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 Rosedale, 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 Rosedale 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 Rosedale and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
116th
Major felonies recorded at places in Rosedale, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 74 major felonies at places in Rosedale, against 105 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.