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Cambria Heights, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cambria Heights is a residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Queens, held between Springfield Boulevard and the Nassau County line.
About Cambria Heights
Where to stay in Cambria Heights
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Hotels are thin on the ground here. This is a neighborhood of houses, so most beds sit outside it, along the Springfield Boulevard and Francis Lewis Boulevard corridors or over the county line at Elmont, with Queens Village to the north holding the nearest rooms in the borough. Laurelton and Rosedale lie south past Montefiore Cemetery. Springfield Gardens sits that way too.
About Cambria Heights
What are the main landmarks in Cambria Heights?
Montefiore Cemetery edges the south. Its grounds form part of the southern boundary, alongside Laurelton, Springfield Gardens and Rosedale, so the street grid stops at its edge rather than running on. Commerce keeps to the boulevards.
Shops follow Springfield Boulevard and Francis Lewis Boulevard rather than any single high street, and the blocks between them stay given over to houses.
What is the history of Cambria Heights?
The neighborhood grew as housing. Streets were laid out between St. Albans and Queens Village, and the eastern limit settled on the line where Queens gives way to Nassau County at Elmont. Montefiore Cemetery held the southern ground.
What was left filled in with the houses that still define Cambria Heights, and the area answers to Queens Community Board 13.
Where is Cambria Heights?
Francis Lewis Boulevard and St. Albans close it off to the west, Queens Village lies north, and Elmont stands across the Nassau County line.
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Updated August 2026