The neighbourhood

Getting anywhere from the end of the street

61st Street–Woodside is a two-minute walk. The 7 train runs on the elevated line above Roosevelt Avenue and goes to Times Square in about twenty-five minutes, all night, every night. Directly above the same station is a Long Island Rail Road platform, which reaches Grand Central in about eighteen minutes and stops running overnight. Both from the same building, which is unusual and is most of why this neighbourhood is worth staying in.

Every route to the door

What is around us, by area

Woodside

The inn is on 61st Street between Roosevelt and 39th Avenue, two minutes from the station. Most of Woodside is inside a fifteen-minute walk, and the four blocks between here and Roosevelt Avenue hold more good food per square foot than anywhere else on this list.

Sunnyside

One stop west on the 7, or a twenty-minute walk along Skillman Avenue. Sunnyside Gardens, a planned garden community from the nineteen-twenties, is worth the walk on its own if you like buildings.

Jackson Heights

Two stops east on the 7, about six minutes. Roosevelt Avenue between 73rd and 82nd is the reason many guests come to this part of Queens at all, and the historic district north of Northern Boulevard is a quiet surprise.

Astoria

Twenty minutes on the Q66 straight down 61st Street, or change at 74th Street. Worth the trip for the waterfront park and the view back at Manhattan from it.

Long Island City

Four stops on the 7, about eleven minutes, and the last stop before the river. The one place we send guests who want a museum without going into Manhattan.

Elmhurst

Four stops on the 7 or twelve minutes on the Q60. Guests go for the food, and the honest advice is to go hungry and walk a block further than you meant to.

Corona

Five stops on the 7. The big park at the end of it holds the science museum, the botanical garden, the zoo and the lake, and a person could spend a whole day there without repeating themselves.

Maspeth

The Q18 stops three blocks from the door and takes about fifteen minutes. Mostly residential, and the easiest direction to drive in if you have brought a car.

Midtown Manhattan

Eighteen minutes to Grand Central on the rail road from the station at the end of the street, or about twenty-five to Times Square on the 7. The 7 runs all night; the rail road does not.

Flushing

Six stops east on the 7, about fifteen minutes, and the end of the line. A completely different city from the one at the other end of the same train.

Forest Hills

The R from Northern Boulevard, about twenty minutes, or the rail road one stop if the timing works. Forest Hills Gardens is the other planned neighbourhood in this borough worth walking through.

Ridgewood

The M from Northern Boulevard and a short walk, about twenty-five minutes. The largest historic district in the city by number of buildings, and almost nobody outside Queens knows it.