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Laurelton, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Laurelton is a neighbourhood of Queens in New York City, laid out by Dean Alvord as an English village and named for a Long Island Rail Road station.
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Where to stay in Laurelton
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Laurelton keeps a small-town feel that most of Queens has lost, because nothing tall was ever built here. Merrick Boulevard is the commercial spine and cuts the neighbourhood east to west. South of it the houses are large and individually designed, while blocks running east from Francis Lewis Boulevard hold attached Tudor rowhouses, and several streets are laid out with planted centre malls down the middle.
About Laurelton
What are the main landmarks in Laurelton?
The Tudor housing is the landmark here, both the detached villas and the attached rows, and it is what Dean Alvord's English village amounted to. Laurelton station named the place. Laurels grew on the ground when the Long Island Rail Road built there, and the station carried the name to the neighbourhood that followed it.
What is the history of Laurelton?
Laurelton belonged to the former town of Jamaica before Queens absorbed it, and Dean Alvord developed the neighbourhood on an English model with Tudor houses attached and detached. Its people have changed twice over. Jewish-American families filled it from the nineteen-thirties into the nineteen-seventies, and from the nineteen-sixties onward African-American, Caribbean, and West African households have settled here in numbers.
Where is Laurelton?
Laurelton sits in south-eastern Queens. Springfield Boulevard bounds it west, 121st Avenue north, the Laurelton Parkway east, and Conduit Avenue south, which makes it a neat rectangle by the standards of the borough. Rosedale and Cambria Heights lie beyond, with Springfield Gardens on the other flank. The housing shifts from single-family towards multi-family as it nears them.
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Updated September 2026