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Blending Brookville’s suburban ambiance with access to New York City
Brookville is a small neighborhood in southern Queens almost at the border of Long Island’s Nassau County; a position that shows in the streetscape and lifestyle that people living there enjoy. “People come to this part of Queens because it’s really residential – no big buildings and no trains. It has a suburban feel but it’s close to everything you need urban-wise,” says Vinny Thompson, a Realtor with Keller Williams Landmark II who’s specialized in the five boroughs and their surrounding suburbs for 10 years. In Brookville, residents are happy to trade having a little less access to public transportation to receive a little bit of extra lawn, easy access to suburban shopping malls and a lot more public green space to enjoy away from the New York City skyline.
Suburban blocks of prewar and midcentury homes
Brookville is laid out in long, suburban blocks lined by pocket-sized front lawns, narrow driveways and sidewalks and a medley of prewar and midcentury architecture. Some blocks are dominated by older National-style homes built in the 1920s and 1930s, while others are characterized by classic Cape Cods, Minimal Traditional and ranch-style homes built into the 1940s and 1950s. Attached homes are common in rowhouse and twin home configurations, selling for $570,000 to $775,000. Detached homes sell for $630,000 to $900,000. Entire duplexes that look similar to the neighborhood’s single-family dwellings, as well as rarer new construction, sell for $660,000 to $1.6 million, contributing to the community’s roughly even split between renters and homeowners.
Brookville's convenient location near highways and transportation options makes it an attractive place to live and work.
Brookville is a peaceful and serene neighborhood.
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Attending New York City Geographic District #29 schools
Most kids will attend prekindergarten through fifth grade at PS 181 Brookfield, which earns a B from Niche. A smaller eastern section of Brookville is zoned for PS 52, which earns a C. Collaborative Arts Middle School earns a C-plus. The B-plus-rated Excelsior Preparatory High School is just outside the neighborhood, known for attracting magnet program applicants to their science and humanities-intensive academic tracks.
The Brookfield School has 304 students in grades PK, K-5.
Collaborative Arts Middle School in provides students a space to enhance their creativity.
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Commuting on the LIRR and Belt Parkway
Subway lines don’t reach Brookville, but the Long Island Rail Road is accessible just north of the neighborhood at the Laurelton Station. Express trains on the Long Beach branch can reach Pennsylvania Station in just over 30 minutes, with regular trains taking closer to 40 minutes. A couple of MTA bus lines make stops along either 147th or Conduit avenues. The Belt Parkway is Brookville’s northern border, offering a 3-mile drive to John F. Kennedy International Airport or connection to other major highways on the roughly 20-mile commute to Manhattan. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center is about 6 miles away.
Waterfront and athletic recreation at Springfield, Idlewild and Brookville parks
Brookville is surrounded by sprawling destination parks on all but one side. To the east, Springfield Park offers tranquil paths around its central pond, along with a playground-centered picnic pavilion and athletic courts. Idlewild Park makes up the neighborhoods southern border, where visitors can launch a kayak into salt marshes before paddling for Jamaica Bay or have a team practice on the cricket pitch or soccer field. Brookville Park is perhaps the most-utilized local park, and not just because it shares the neighborhood’s name. Across the green acres that make up Brookville’s western border, visitors can find multiple baseball diamonds, tennis courts, basketball courts and a playground, all connected by looping walking paths and the canopy of shady trees.
Brookville Park has several amenities that caters to athletes.
Brookville residents like to practice their tennis skills at the many courts at Brookville Park.
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Shopping and dining on Conduit Avenue and at Green Acres Mall
A couple of commercial strips line Conduit Avenue with a handful of small businesses like Breezes Island Grill Restaurant & Lounge, which serves Jamaican dinner staples as well as Sunday brunch. For most shopping and dining, however, residents are likely to head about 2 miles away to the Green Acres Mall. Popular retailers fill the indoor shopping complex, with shoppers walking between big names like Macy’s, American Eagle and Old Navy. The mall’s owners announced redevelopment plans in 2024, set to further enhance satellite anchor spaces and interior ambiance in the coming years. Strip malls and big box anchors outside of the main mall complex are full of names like Walmart, Target and ALDI.
Brookville is very close to several big-box discount stores like Aldi.
Portmor Bake Shop in Brookville serves baked goods and cooked meals as well.
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Environmental education programming and barbecues at nearby parks
Idlewild Park is also home to the Idlewild Park Preserve Environmental Science Learning Center, a space opened by the Eastern Queens Alliance in 2022. It offers regular programming for kids to learn about the unique flora and fauna that call the marshes home, as well as special service day events like trail clean-ups. The two parks to the east and west of Brookville give residents the opportunity to put on events of their own by reserving their available barbecue pits and picnic areas.
The Idlewild Environmental Center offers a unique space to develop environmental awareness and education for children and adults in Queens, NY.
Idlewild Park has an area for residents to barbecue and picnic.
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Managing nuisance flooding and noise from JFK Airport
Although the state has worked to improve drainage near the salt marshes and roadways on Brookville’s southern border, roadways south of 147th Avenue may still flood after unusually heavy rain, and buyers may require flood insurance. A fact of life that’s less likely to change is the noise from John F. Kennedy International Airport, in the form of freight trucks parking or driving around Brookville as well as the audible, low-flying air traffic sounds. “It sounds corny, and I didn’t believe it until my father bought a place nearby, but you really don't hear them anymore after a while,” Thompson notes.
Although Brookville has undergone some considerable development over the years, residents work to protect the areas natural beauty.
Brookville is on the border of JFK International Airport.
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On average, homes in Brookville, Queens sell after 125 days on the market compared to the national average of 52 days. The median sale price for homes in Brookville, Queens over the last 12 months is $663,944, up 2% from the median home sale price over the previous 12 months.
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