South Richmond Hill

Neighborhood · Queens

South Richmond Hill takes in the blocks south of Atlantic Avenue, reaching to Liberty Avenue, the business corridor along its southern edge.

  • 0.57 square miles
  • 24,141 residents, 2020 Census
  • 94 street corners
  • 8 bus routes

Its large Indo-Caribbean community has earned it the nickname Little Guyana, and its many Punjabi and Sikh residents the name Little Punjab. Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park, on Atlantic Avenue, opened in 1938 and was long known locally as Smokey Oval before its 2019 renaming for the baseball player, who lived and went to high school in Richmond Hill. The park has hosted the annual Phagwah Parade celebration of the Federation of Indian Associations, marking the festival of colors.

Sources: South Richmond Hill, Queens (Wikipedia); Richmond Hill, Queens (Wikipedia); Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park History (NYC Parks); Noteworthy People (Richmond Hill Historical Society).

Map

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South Richmond Hill borders four areas, and 101st Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 27 of 94.

Street map of South Richmond Hill, Queens, outlined among South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Ozone Park (North) and Jamaica, with Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park.Richmond HillJamaicaSouth Ozone ParkOzone Park (North)
  • South Richmond Hill
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on eight routes stop in or at the edge of South Richmond Hill.

  • 7 local bus routes
  • 1 express bus route

Local bus routes

  • Q8
  • Q9
  • Q10
  • Q24
  • Q37
  • Q80
  • Q112

Express bus route

  • QM18

Safety record

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

  • 588 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 6.3 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 7 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 14 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
10
Accessible pedestrian signals
5
Turn calming
4

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
  • 3,837 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
101st Avenue & 111th Street, 2,445

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 24,141 residents in South Richmond Hill, about 42,400 per square mile.

  • 7,202 homes, 2020 Census
  • 234 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,466 residential lots hold buildings from 1920 or earlier, and 88% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
5.3 acres of Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto Park, as NYC Parks maps it within South Richmond Hill

Streets and trees

Trees
1,907 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
101st Avenue, with 27 of the area's 94
Height above sea level
From 39 feet at 103rd Avenue & 106th Street to 56 feet at Lefferts Boulevard & 94th Avenue
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists five schools in South Richmond Hill.

Public schools
5

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 157 major felonies at places in South Richmond Hill.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in South Richmond Hill

  • 153 major felonies in 2024
  • 872 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of South Richmond Hill, the NYPD recorded another 75 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in South Richmond Hill.

Map of South Richmond Hill: 5 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 South Richmond Hill, 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 South Richmond Hill, 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 South Richmond Hill 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 South Richmond Hill and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
102nd
Major felonies recorded at places in South Richmond Hill, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 87 major felonies at places in South Richmond Hill, against 66 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.