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Laurelton

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

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St. 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
  2. 02
    UBS 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
  3. 03
    TWA 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
  4. 04
    Diocese 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
  5. 05
    Queens 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
  6. 06
    Queens 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
  7. 07
    Adelphi 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 → Laurelton
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $14–19
  • Hartford → Laurelton
    151 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · $14–20
  • Providence/Warwick → Laurelton
    226 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $22–30
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inNYC Ferry runs a ferry from the Financial District in Manhattan via Southwest Brooklyn in Brooklyn.

From Wikivoyage: Queens/The Rockaways, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    51 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    551 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,623 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,630 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,753 km

If you know how people move in Laurelton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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