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East Elmhurst, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Louis Armstrong House and LaGuardia Airport share one Queens neighborhood, East Elmhurst, between Jackson Heights and Bowery Bay.
About East Elmhurst
Where to stay in East Elmhurst
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
LaGuardia Airport sets the terms here. East Elmhurst wraps the terminals on the Flushing Bay side, which makes it a landing place for anyone flying in rather than a base chosen for the streets themselves. Jackson Heights and Corona lie south.
Woodside and Ditmars Steinway hold the western side, and the Louis Armstrong House stands on the residential streets between the airport and those edges.
About East Elmhurst
What are the main landmarks in East Elmhurst?
LaGuardia Airport holds the shoreline. It occupies the Flushing Bay side of East Elmhurst, with the LaGuardia Landing Lights Fields set aside on the approach and Astoria Heights counted within the same neighborhood. Only one other site is named.
The Louis Armstrong House stands among the residential blocks, the landmark that belongs to East Elmhurst rather than to Jackson Heights, Corona or Woodside next door.
What is the history of East Elmhurst?
One address anchors the past. The Louis Armstrong House keeps the musician's name on a residential street, and it remains the only landmark the neighborhood's record lists by name. LaGuardia Airport occupies the Flushing Bay frontage, with the LaGuardia Landing Lights Fields on the approach beneath it.
Astoria Heights falls inside the same bounds. Around them, Jackson Heights, Corona, Woodside and Ditmars Steinway have long framed a neighborhood that Bowery Bay closes off to the north and east.
Where is East Elmhurst?
Bowery Bay closes East Elmhurst to the north and east, Jackson Heights and Corona to the south, Woodside and Ditmars Steinway to the west.
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Updated August 2026