Woodside

Neighborhood · Queens

Woodside lies in western Queens between Sunnyside and Jackson Heights, south of Northern Boulevard, with Roosevelt Avenue running through it.

  • 1.18 square miles
  • 53,188 residents, 2020 Census
  • 284 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Large-scale development began in 1867, lot sales started in 1869, the year its Long Island Rail Road station was built, and the Flushing subway line arrived in 1917. The neighborhood was largely Irish by the 1930s, Roosevelt Avenue from 63rd to 71st Streets is known as Little Manila for its Filipino-owned businesses, and Doughboy Park holds the Woodside Doughboy, a World War I memorial dedicated in 1923.

Sources: Woodside, Queens (Wikipedia); Doughboy Park History (NYC Parks).

Map

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Woodside borders eight areas, and Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Woodside Avenue hold more of its corners than any other street, 24 each of 284.

Street map of Woodside, Queens, outlined among Elmhurst, Calvary & Mount Zion Cemeteries, Maspeth and Sunnyside, with its four subway stations and Big Bush Playground.Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)Jackson HeightsElmhurstMaspethCalvary & Mount Zion CemeteriesSunnysideSunnyside Yards (South)Sunnyside Yards (North)
  • Woodside
  • 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

  • Northern Blvd lines M R accessible
  • 65 St lines M R
  • 69 St lines 7
  • 61 St-Woodside lines 7 accessible

Getting around

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

  • 4 subway stations
  • 2 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 10 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Q18
  • Q32
  • Q39
  • Q47
  • Q53-SBS
  • Q60
  • Q63
  • Q66
  • Q70-SBS
  • T320

Safety record

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

  • 2,094 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 7.4 a corner, on average
  • 5.2 the average Queens corner
  • 40 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 43 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
30
Accessible pedestrian signals
28
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
6
Turn calming
4
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

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

  • 7,290 red-light camera tickets at two corners
  • 11,518 school-zone speed camera tickets at 12 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
Queens Boulevard & 70th Street, 4,513
Most speed tickets
Queens Boulevard & 56th Street, 4,088

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 53,188 residents in Woodside, about 45,100 per square mile.

  • 19,183 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,438 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,517 residential lots hold buildings from 1935 or earlier, and 51% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
10.7 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Big Bush Playground (3.2 acres), Lawrence Virgilio Playground (3.2 acres) and Doughboy Park (1.7 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
3,709 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, London planetree and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, with 24 of the area's 284
Height above sea level
From 22 feet at 51st Avenue & 72nd Place at 51st Road to 123 feet at 48th Avenue & 58th Street
Honorary street names
13 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 12 schools and one library in Woodside.

Public schools
8
Charter and private schools
4
Library
Woodside Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 33 bike-share stations stand in Woodside. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them Woodside Doughboy (1923), Winfield Memorial (1926) and Woodside Memorial (1971).

  • 33 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 502 major felonies at places in Woodside.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Woodside

  • 491 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,125 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Woodside, the NYPD recorded another 66 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.7 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Woodside.

Map of Woodside: 15 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 Woodside, 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 Woodside, 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 Woodside 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 Woodside and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
108th (most of the area), 110th, 115th
Major felonies recorded at places in Woodside, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 251 major felonies at places in Woodside, against 213 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.