Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village

Neighborhood · Queens

Two communities share this part of southeast Queens: Rochdale Village, a vast cooperative apartment complex, and the northern blocks of Springfield Gardens.

  • 1.24 square miles
  • 32,883 residents, 2020 Census
  • 220 street corners
  • 16 bus routes

Rochdale Village rose on the grounds of the Jamaica Race Track, which closed in 1959, and when it opened in 1963, with 20 buildings and 5,860 apartments, it was the largest housing cooperative in the world. It is named for Rochdale, England, where the modern cooperative movement began. Springfield Gardens, settled by Europeans in 1660 and farmed into the mid-1800s, took its name in 1927 during a decade of rapid house building.

Sources: Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City (Peter Eisenstadt) (NYC Commission on Human Rights); Rochdale Village, Queens (Wikipedia); Rochdale Village: Preface (Peter Eisenstadt) (Cornell University Press); Springfield Gardens, Queens (Wikipedia).

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Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village borders four areas, and 140th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 29 of 220.

Street map of Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, Queens, outlined among Baisley Park, Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville, St. Albans and Laurelton, with Baisley Pond Park.St. AlbansLaureltonSpringfield Gardens (South)-BrookvilleBaisley Park
  • Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village
  • A neighboring area
  • Park

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

Neighboring areas

Getting around

Buses on 16 routes stop in or at the edge of Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village.

  • 13 local bus routes
  • 3 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q3
  • Q5
  • Q6
  • Q7
  • Q77
  • Q85
  • Q86
  • Q87
  • Q89
  • Q111
  • Q113
  • Q114
  • Q115

Express bus routes

  • QM21
  • QM63
  • QM65

Safety record

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

  • 1,248 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 5.7 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 42 corners with a clean record

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

Leading pedestrian intervals
11
Accessible pedestrian signals
9

Camera tickets

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

  • 153 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 58,326 school-zone speed camera tickets at 13 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Rockaway Boulevard & Baisley Boulevard, 108

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 32,883 residents in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, about 26,500 per square mile.

  • 12,637 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,049 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,652 residential lots hold buildings from 1945 or earlier, and 40% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VI), FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV) and FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IX) developments lie wholly or partly within Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village.

FHA Repossessed Houses (Group VI)
Partly within Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IV)
Partly within Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village
FHA Repossessed Houses (Group IX)
Partly within Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village

Parks

Parkland
56.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Baisley Pond Park (29.3 acres), Gwen Ifill Park (15.9 acres) and Rochdale Park (9.2 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,140 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
140th Avenue, with 29 of the area's 220
Height above sea level
From 10 feet at 154th Street & 137th Avenue to 25 feet at 172nd Street & 126th Avenue
Honorary street names
5 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 11 schools and one library in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village.

Public schools
10
Charter or private school
1
Library
Rochdale Village Library

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 225 major felonies at places in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village

  • 192 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,162 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, the NYPD recorded another 66 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village.

Map of Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village: 7 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 Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, 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 Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, 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 Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village 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 Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
113th (most of the area), 116th
Major felonies recorded at places in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 123 major felonies at places in Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, against 95 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.