Floral Park Queens neighborhood information provided by the Queens Home Team at Keller Williams Realty Landmark II. Need help, or want to know more about this neighborhood? Feel free to Contact Us anytime 🙂
Living in Floral Park Queens
Floral Park is a beautiful, leafy suburban Queens neighborhood that lives up to its name. The area, sometimes called North Floral Park, looks a lot like its Nassau County neighbors, Floral Park Village, Floral Park Centre and North New Hyde Park.
Families flock to Floral Park for the good schools (in the high-performing District 26), the parks, the (relatively) low taxes for the New York area and the quick city commute (about 35 minutes by the Long Island Rail Road).
Floral Park shares the same zip code as Glen Oaks, so sometimes the names are used interchangeably. For instance, the 34-floor North Shore Towers use a Floral Park address but are next to the Grand Central Parkway.
The housing includes small brick ranches, wooden colonials, and attached multi-family homes. But the most prominent style is the detached Cape Cod, many of which were built on small lots right after World War II.
The stores on the main drag, Hillside Avenue, are mainly restaurants and shops catering to the local residents, who make up about a third of Floral Park’s population. And there are Italian restaurants, Irish pubs, sports bars (most notably long-standing Hagar’s Pub on Hillside), among others in the town. The other main streets in Floral Park are the Union and Jericho turnpikes.
Floral Park is bounded on the north by the Union Turnpike and Glen Oaks, by the Jericho Turnpike and Floral Park Village and Bellerose on the south, and Little Neck Parkway and Bellerose and Bellaire on the west.
The eastern boundary follows Langdale Avenue to Hillside, then a westward diagonal down to Jericho Turnpike, splitting blocks between counties and touching Floral Park Centre, Floral Park Village, North New Hyde Park, and Nassau County.
The LIRR stops at the Floral Park Station at Atlantic and Tulip avenues. Buses to Floral Park are the Q79, Q46 and Q43 and the X68 express bus. If you’re driving, Floral Park is closest to the Cross Island Parkway and the Grand Central Parkway, the Long Island Expressway and the Southern State Parkway are nearby.
