New hotels in Queens, New York

Most visitors meet Queens from a taxi window between JFK or LaGuardia and the Midtown Tunnel. The borough deserves a longer look than that. It is the largest of the five by area, about 109 square miles of land, and the 2020 census counted 2,405,464 residents, many of them born abroad, which shows in the food of Flushing, Jackson Heights and Astoria. For hotels it plays two roles: a cheaper and quieter base one subway stop from Midtown, in Long Island City, and the place to sleep before an early flight.

The project we track: Crockfords New York

The only Queens hotel on our list has not opened. Crockfords New York is a 1,200-room tower that Genting Group is building at Resorts World NYC, the casino on a 72-acre site in South Ozone Park, beside the Aqueduct racetrack. Ground was broken on July 22, 2026, as the centerpiece of a $5.5 billion second phase that also adds a 400-room Hyatt tower next to the existing 400-room Hyatt Regency (opened in 2021), a 7,000-seat arena and about 2 million square feet of gaming, dining, retail and convention space. Resorts World won one of the state's downstate casino licenses in December 2025, and the second phase followed.

Crockfords is Genting's top-end hotel brand. At Resorts World Las Vegas it operates under Hilton's LXR Hotels & Resorts label, and the New York tower is expected to follow the same arrangement, but neither company had confirmed that for Queens at the time of writing. No restaurants have been announced for the tower, no rates published, and no opening date set. A build of this size, inside a resort that keeps operating during construction, is a multi-year project.

Its location decides who it will suit. South Ozone Park is a residential neighborhood of small houses near the Belt Parkway, a short drive from JFK and a long way from Manhattan's sights; the A train stops at Aqueduct Racetrack station nearby, and the ride to Lower Manhattan takes the better part of an hour. The tower is aimed at casino and event visitors and at travelers between flights, not at people planning a week of museums.

Long Island City

The closest Queens neighborhood to Manhattan, and the one with the widest choice of hotels for visitors heading into Manhattan. Its waterfront, Hunters Point, faces the United Nations across the East River; inland, around Queens Plaza and Court Square, office and residential towers have replaced warehouses over the past twenty years, with hotels in between.

Transit is the main reason to stay. The office tower at One Court Square, finished in 1990, was for years the tallest building in New York outside Manhattan, and the area now has dozens of newer residential towers around it. The 7 train's first Queens stop, Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av, is one stop from Grand Central; Court Sq-23 St serves the E, M, 7 and G, with the E one stop from Lexington Av-53 St; Queensboro Plaza adds the N and W. NYC Ferry stops at Hunters Point South on its East River route, which continues to East 34th Street, Williamsburg and DUMBO in Brooklyn, and Wall Street.

Gantry Plaza State Park lines the water with the restored gantries that once loaded rail cars onto barges, and with the red Pepsi-Cola sign, a city landmark. Inland, the red Silvercup sign by the Queensboro Bridge marks a former bakery turned film and television studio. MoMA PS1, at 22-25 Jackson Avenue in a former public school building, marks its 50th anniversary in 2026 and has been free for every visitor since January 1, 2026, for three years under a gift from Sonya Yu; it opens Thursday to Monday and closes Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Further north along the river, the Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park sit a block apart.

Astoria

North of Long Island City, Astoria is the end of the N and W lines, at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd, about 25 minutes from Times Square. The Greek tavernas around 31st Street and Ditmars Boulevard, the Egyptian and Moroccan cafes of Steinway Street and Bohemian Hall, an open-air beer garden on 24th Avenue, set its evenings. The Museum of the Moving Image stands on 35th Avenue inside the Kaufman Astoria Studios complex, built for Paramount in 1920, when much of American filmmaking still happened in New York, and still used for film and television. Astoria Park, under the Triborough and Hell Gate bridges, holds a 1936 public pool, the largest in the city, open in summer.

Flushing and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

Flushing is the 7 train's last stop, Flushing-Main St, around 40 minutes from Times Square on the local; the Long Island Rail Road from the station next door covers the trip to Penn Station in about 20. Around Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue lies one of the largest Chinese communities in North America, with food courts in the basements of shopping malls. The neighborhood also has its own cluster of mid-priced hotels.

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, between Flushing and Corona, held the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs. The stainless-steel Unisphere from 1964 still stands at its center. Next to it, the Queens Museum occupies the New York City Building of the 1939 fair, which housed the United Nations General Assembly from 1946 to 1950. Its centerpiece is the Panorama of the City of New York, built for the 1964 fair: a 9,335-square-foot model at a scale of 1 to 1,200, showing all 895,000 buildings that stood in the five boroughs before 1992.

The park also contains the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open from late August into September, and, next to it, Citi Field, where the Mets have played since 2009. Both are served by Mets-Willets Point on the 7. The New York Hall of Science, another survivor of the 1964 fair, and the small Queens Zoo also sit inside the park. On Saturday evenings from spring to autumn, the Queens Night Market fills the grounds of the Hall of Science with food stalls.

Jackson Heights

Roosevelt Avenue, under the 7 train's overhead tracks, is lined with Colombian, Mexican, Nepali, Tibetan and Indian kitchens. Between Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard, the blocks of the 70s and 80s streets are lined with garden apartment blocks of the 1910s and 1920s, built around private interior courtyards and protected as a historic district. Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Av, on the E, F, M, R and 7, is also where the free bus to LaGuardia starts.

In neighboring Corona, the Louis Armstrong House Museum preserves the modest brick house on 107th Street where the trumpeter lived from 1943 until his death in 1971, with its kitchen and den kept as the Armstrongs left them.

Sleeping near the airports

JFK sits on Jamaica Bay in the southeast of the borough. AirTrain JFK links every terminal to two stations: Jamaica, for the E, J and Z subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road, and Howard Beach, for the A. A ride costs $8.75, children under five travel free, and trains come every 5 to 15 minutes. From Jamaica the LIRR reaches Penn Station or Grand Central Madison in about 20 minutes; the E takes roughly twice as long to Midtown.

The airport's own hotel worth knowing is the TWA Hotel, opened in May 2019 with 512 rooms in and around Eero Saarinen's 1962 TWA Flight Center, reached on foot from Terminal 5. Most other airport hotels line the roads around Jamaica and the Van Wyck Expressway and run shuttles to the terminals.

LaGuardia, on the north shore, has rebuilt Terminals B and C. The Q70 LaGuardia Link bus serves both for free, running to Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway and to Woodside for the Long Island Rail Road. The M60 SBS bus continues across the Triborough Bridge to 125th Street in Harlem. For a late arrival or an early departure from LaGuardia, a hotel in Jackson Heights, Flushing or Long Island City keeps the transfer to one bus.

Rockaway

The A train and a NYC Ferry route from Wall Street both reach the Rockaway peninsula, the city's surf beach, in about an hour. At its western end, Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden belong to Gateway National Recreation Area, with quieter sand and the dunes of a former army post. Few visitors sleep there; it works as a summer day out from Long Island City or Brooklyn.

Which part of Queens for your trip

For a city break with most sightseeing in Manhattan, stay in Long Island City: one stop from Midtown, with the ferry for Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, and a short ride to LaGuardia. Astoria suits a longer stay with evenings in the neighborhood rather than downtown.

Tennis and baseball fans should stay in Flushing, a walk or one 7 train stop from the Tennis Center and Citi Field.

With a flight before 8am, sleep at JFK or LaGuardia. Crockfords New York, once open, will add a casino-resort option near JFK; until Genting gives a date, plan around the hotels already operating. For more choice across the city, see our New York guide and the Midtown Manhattan page.

Frequently asked questions

Has Crockfords New York opened?

No. Genting broke ground on the 1,200-room tower at Resorts World NYC on July 22, 2026, and no opening date has been announced.

How do I get from JFK to Manhattan by public transport?

Take AirTrain JFK ($8.75) to Jamaica, then the Long Island Rail Road to Penn Station or Grand Central Madison, about 20 minutes, or the E subway, about 40. From Howard Beach, the A train runs to Lower Manhattan.

Is there a free bus from LaGuardia?

Yes. The Q70 LaGuardia Link serves Terminals B and C at no charge and connects to the E, F, M, R and 7 subway lines at Jackson Heights and to the Long Island Rail Road at Woodside.

Can I reach Resorts World NYC by subway?

Yes. The A train stops at Aqueduct Racetrack station, next to the resort in South Ozone Park; from Lower Manhattan the ride takes close to an hour.

How far is Long Island City from Midtown Manhattan?

One subway stop. The 7 runs from Vernon Blvd-Jackson Av to Grand Central, and the E from Court Sq-23 St to Lexington Av-53 St, each in a few minutes.

Where should I stay in Queens for the US Open?

Flushing. The 7 train's Mets-Willets Point station serves the tennis center, one stop from Flushing-Main St, and Long Island City is the other option, on the same line.