Laurelton
Laurelton is a largely middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens and part of the former town of Jamaica.

Laurelton is a largely middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens and part of the former town of Jamaica. Merrick Boulevard, which bisects the community in a generally east–west direction, forms its commercial spine. It is bounded by Springfield Boulevard to the west, 121st Avenue to the north, Laurelton Parkway to the east, and Conduit Avenue to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Laurelton
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St. John's University
St. John's University is a private Catholic university in Queens, New York City, United States.
6.7 km · university in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 02UBS Arena
UBS Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City limits. Opened in 2021, it is the home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League, who previously played at the Nassau Coliseum and Barclays Center.
4.4 km · indoor arena on Long Island · Wikipedia - 03TWA Flight Center
The TWA Flight Center is a building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, United States. Designed by Eero Saarinen and Associates for Trans World Airlines, the building was completed in 1962 and operated as an airport terminal for four decades.
4.2 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 04Diocese of Rockville Centre
The Diocese of Rockville Centre is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the Long Island region of the State of New York in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York.
9.2 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 05Queens College
Queens College is a public college in the New York City borough of Queens. Part of the City University of New York system, Queens College occupies an 83-acre campus primarily located in Flushing.
9.2 km · college in New York City · Wikipedia - 06Queens Public Library
The Queens Public Library, also known as the Queens Borough Public Library, is the public library for the borough of Queens, and one of three public library systems serving New York City. It is one of the largest library systems in the world by circulation, having loaned 13.5 million items in the 2015 fiscal year, and one of the largest in the country in terms of the size of its collection.
5.6 km · library network in Queens, New York · Wikipedia - 07Adelphi University
Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York, United States. Adelphi also has centers in Downtown Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County in addition to a virtual, online campus for remote students.
9.3 km · university in Garden City, New York · Wikipedia
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Getting to Laurelton
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 5 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 16 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 36 km
- Stations
- John F. Kennedy International Airport, 4.9 km · 104th Street, 8.6 km · Ozone Park – Lefferts Boulevard, 6.8 km · 111th Street, 8.1 km · Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue, 7.9 km
- Philadelphia → Laurelton144 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $14–19
- Hartford → Laurelton151 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $14–20
- Providence/Warwick → Laurelton226 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $22–30
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Laurelton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Laurelton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNYC Ferry runs a ferry from the Financial District in Manhattan via Southwest Brooklyn in Brooklyn.
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Next door to Laurelton
Laurelton is 8 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Queensborough in New York City, New York, United States8.2 km
- Lynbrookvillage in New York, United States6.4 km
- Jamaicaneighborhood of Queens, New York City, United States5.5 km
- Forest Hillsneighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, USA10 km
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeWildlife refuge in New York City9.7 km
- Far Rockawayneighborhood in borough of Queens, New York City, United States8.3 km