South Ozone Park

Neighborhood · Queens

Just north of John F. Kennedy International Airport, South Ozone Park reaches east from Aqueduct Racetrack to the Van Wyck Expressway, with Richmond Hill to the north and Howard Beach to the southwest.

  • 2.94 square miles
  • 79,540 residents, 2020 Census
  • 488 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 11 bus routes

Its chief commercial street is Rockaway Boulevard, and the neighborhood is home to sizable Guyanese and Trinidadian communities. Aqueduct opened in 1894 and took its name from the old Ridgewood Aqueduct, a conduit of the Brooklyn waterworks; it hosted the second Breeders' Cup in 1985, and after 132 years its final day of live racing came on June 28, 2026.

Sources: South Ozone Park (Wikipedia); Aqueduct Racetrack (Wikipedia); Aqueduct Racetrack (New York Racing Association); Queens Community Board 10.

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South Ozone Park borders eight areas, and Rockaway Boulevard holds more of its corners than any other street, 43 of 488.

Street map of South Ozone Park, Queens, outlined among South Richmond Hill, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Baisley Park and Ozone Park, with its five subway stations and Southern Fields.South Richmond HillSouth JamaicaBaisley ParkSpringfield Gardens (South)-BrookvilleJohn F. Kennedy International AirportHoward Beach-LindenwoodOzone ParkOzone Park (North)
  • South Ozone Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd lines A accessible
  • 111 St lines A
  • 104 St lines A
  • Aqueduct Racetrack lines A accessible
  • Aqueduct-N Conduit Av lines A

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 11 routes stop in or at the edge of South Ozone Park.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q7
  • Q8
  • Q9
  • Q10
  • Q37
  • Q41
  • Q51
  • Q80
  • Q109
  • Q112

Express bus route

  • QM18

Safety record

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

  • 3,447 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.1 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 38 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 73 of its corners

Accessible pedestrian signals
54
Leading pedestrian intervals
45
Turn calming
6
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 1,377 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 57,168 school-zone speed camera tickets at 17 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
North Conduit Avenue & Lefferts Boulevard, 1,377
Most speed tickets
North Conduit Avenue & 127th Street, 33,650

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 79,540 residents in South Ozone Park, about 27,100 per square mile.

  • 24,391 homes, 2020 Census
  • 435 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 13,932 residential lots hold buildings from 1925 or earlier, and 77% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VII), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III) developments lie wholly or partly within South Ozone Park.

FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VII)
Partly within South Ozone Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV)
Partly within South Ozone Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VIII)
Partly within South Ozone Park
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group III)
Partly within South Ozone Park

Parks

Parkland
16.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Southern Fields (5.6 acres), Police Officer Edward Byrne Park (4.7 acres) and Lefferts Playground (2.9 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
8,369 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Rockaway Boulevard, with 43 of the area's 488
Height above sea level
From 12 feet at Nassau Expressway & South Conduit Avenue to 49 feet at Liberty Avenue & 129th Street
Honorary street names
8 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 15 schools and two libraries in South Ozone Park.

Public schools
10
Charter and private schools
5
Libraries
Lefferts Library and South Ozone Park Library

Public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works in South Ozone Park: Corporal George J. Wellbrock Memorial (1929) and Catholic War Veterans Memorial (1938).

  • 2 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 921 major felonies at places in South Ozone Park.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in South Ozone Park

  • 968 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,791 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of South Ozone Park, the NYPD recorded another 56 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 12.3 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in South Ozone Park.

Police precincts
106th (most of the area), 102nd
Major felonies recorded at places in South Ozone Park, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 484 major felonies at places in South Ozone Park, against 424 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.