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Dutch Kills, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Dutch Kills is a small neighbourhood in the Long Island City section of Queens, in New York City.
About Dutch Kills
Where to stay in Dutch Kills
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Dutch Kills works as a low-key base a few subway stops from Midtown. Rooms cluster tight here. Many of the hotels rise along Northern Boulevard and the blocks around Queens Plaza, where the E, M and R trains and the elevated 7 line pull travellers across the East River in minutes.
Book close to the tracks and you trade a bit of quiet for a fast run into Manhattan.
About Dutch Kills
What are the main landmarks in Dutch Kills?
Dutch Kills is a working district more than a sightseeing one. Its own set pieces are few. The neighbourhood sits within Long Island City, so its best-known sights lie just beyond the immediate streets, among them the Museum of the Moving Image, the Noguchi Museum and the waterfront Socrates Sculpture Park.
Above the rail approaches, the red Pepsi-Cola sign marks the skyline that travellers glimpse from the platforms around Queens Plaza. The green ribbon of Dutch Kills Green sits closer to hand.
What is the history of Dutch Kills?
A tidal creek named this place. The word kill is Dutch for a small watercourse. Early Dutch and English farmers settled the marshy flats along that creek, and the name outlasted the water once the arms of the stream were filled and built over during the industrial growth of Long Island City.
Rail yards, factories and the elevated approaches to the Queensboro Bridge reshaped the ground, binding the neighbourhood to the freight and transit lines that still frame it around Queens Plaza.
Where is Dutch Kills?
Dutch Kills lies in western Queens, wedged among the rail yards and elevated lines of Long Island City just east of the East River and the Queensboro Bridge.
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Updated July 2026