Queens · Community District 12

Jamaica-St. Albans-Hollis

Jamaica · South Jamaica · Hollis · St. Albans · Springfield Gardens · Baisley Park · Rochdale Village

Community Board
12
Elected seats covering it
12
Land area
25.0 km²
Landmarks
4

Everything on this ground

Community Board 12

Advisory, but it reviews every development before anyone else does — and its meetings are open to you.

Chair
Rev. Carlene O. Thorbs
Manager
Katherina Thompson
Office
90-28 161st Street, Jamaica, NY 11432
Phone
718-658-3308
Email
qn12@cb.nyc.gov
Meets
General board meeting: third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM (in December, the second Wednesday). Hybrid - the May 20, 2026 meeting was held at the Robert Ross Johnson Family Life Center, 172-17 Linden Boulevard, St. Albans, NY 11433, with a simultaneous Zoom link. Cabinet meeting: fourth Wednesday, 10:00 AM.
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City Council

City law, the city budget, the binding vote on rezonings.

State Assembly

Rent and tenant law, school funding, state benefits.

  • Vivian E. Cook

    District 32 · Democratic · covers 45% of CD 12

    718-322-3975

  • Alicia Hyndman

    District 29 · Democratic · covers 36% of CD 12

    718-723-5412

  • Clyde Vanel

    District 33 · Democratic · covers 15% of CD 12

    718-479-2333

  • Khaleel M. Anderson

    District 31 · Democratic · covers 3% of CD 12

    718-327-1845
State Senate

The other half of state law. MTA funding and oversight.

  • Leroy Comrie

    District 14 · Democratic · covers 55% of CD 12

    718-765-6359

  • James Sanders Jr.

    District 10 · Democratic · covers 36% of CD 12

    718-523-3069

  • Toby Ann Stavisky

    District 11 · Democratic · covers 9% of CD 12

    718-445-0004
U.S. House

Federal law, and caseworkers for immigration and benefits.

  • Gregory W. Meeks

    District 5 · Democratic · covers 100% of CD 12

    (718) 725-6000
4 landmarks

What stands on this ground, and why it's worth knowing.

HistoricSt. Albans

Addisleigh Park Historic District

A residential historic district of Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts houses built from the 1910s to the 1930s, designated by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2011. It lies roughly between Linden Boulevard, Sayres Avenue, Marne Place and the LIRR tracks.

Why it matters

After Black families broke its racially restrictive covenants in the 1940s, Addisleigh Park became the most prominent Black upper-middle-class enclave in New York City, home to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Fats Waller, Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis.

Roughly bounded by Linden Boulevard, Sayres Avenue, Marne Place and the LIRR, St. Albans, NY 11412

COORDINATE ESTIMATED. Wikipedia redirects Addisleigh Park to the St. Albans article, which gives only a rounded neighborhood coordinate; this is an estimated centroid of the LPC district boundaries. It is a residential district, not a visitable site.

CivicJamaica

Jamaica Center

The commercial and civic core of downtown Jamaica, centered on Jamaica Avenue, Archer Avenue and Parsons Boulevard. It is a major transit hub served by the E, J and Z subway lines, the Long Island Rail Road, AirTrain JFK and dozens of bus routes.

Why it matters

Jamaica has been a crossroads since the colonial era and is today the principal downtown for southeast Queens and one of the busiest transit interchanges in the region, linking the city to JFK Airport and Long Island.

Jamaica Avenue at Parsons Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11432

TheaterJamaica

Jamaica Performing Arts Center

A 400-seat performance venue in the restored 1858 First Reformed Dutch Church of Jamaica, reopened as a theater in 2007 and operated by the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Its stained glass windows remain in place.

Why it matters

The adaptive reuse of a New York City landmark church into southeast Queens' principal performing arts venue, anchoring the cultural revival of downtown Jamaica.

153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432

COORDINATE ESTIMATED. No Wikipedia article carries a coordinate for this building; the position was triangulated from King Manor (150-03 Jamaica Ave) and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (161-04 Jamaica Ave), whose coordinates are verified. OpenStreetMap's JPAC node is tagged with JCAL's address, so the two are easily confused.

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MuseumJamaica

King Manor Museum

The 18th-century home of Rufus King, a signer of the U.S. Constitution and one of New York's first U.S. senators, set in 11-acre Rufus King Park. The house museum interprets the King family and early American politics.

Why it matters

Rufus King was an outspoken opponent of slavery at the Constitutional Convention and his son John Alsop King served as governor of New York. The house is a National Historic Landmark and the civic heart of downtown Jamaica's park.

150-03 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432

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8 civic groups

Neighbours who already meet about this. Joining one is the fastest way to get a hearing at the board.

  • Downtown Jamaica Partnership

    Business improvement district

    Consolidated business improvement district covering Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica Avenue, Union Hall Street and 165th Street in Downtown Jamaica.

    Website ↗info@downtownjamaica.org718-526-2422

  • GatewayJFK

    Business improvement district

    Business improvement district serving the air-cargo and industrial district north of JFK Airport, providing sanitation, streetscape and advocacy services.

    Website ↗info@gatewayjfk.org718-304-0119

  • Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL)

    Cultural

    Multidisciplinary arts center in downtown Jamaica offering public performances, exhibitions and arts education, and operating the Jamaica Performing Arts Center.

    Website ↗education@jcal.org(718) 658-7400

  • Neighborhood Housing Services of Jamaica, Inc. (NHSJ)

    Community organization

    Southeast Queens housing nonprofit working to expand homeownership and affordable housing through foreclosure prevention, housing education and counseling.

    Website ↗(718) 291-7400

  • 165th Street Mall Improvement Association

    Business improvement district

    Pedestrian-mall business improvement district on 165th Street between 89th Avenue and Jamaica Avenue in Downtown Jamaica.

    Website ↗mall165@hotmail.com718-298-5489

  • 180th Street BID

    Business improvement district

    Small industrial business improvement district along 180th Street between Liberty Avenue and 110th Avenue in Jamaica.

    mall165@hotmail.com718-298-5489

  • Addisleigh Park Civic Organization

    Civic association

    Civic organization for the Addisleigh Park Historic District in St. Albans that works with city agencies on preservation and quality-of-life issues.

  • Jamaica Center BID

    Business improvement district

    Business improvement district covering Jamaica Avenue from Sutphin Boulevard to 169th Street in Downtown Jamaica.

    Website ↗info@jamaicacenter.org718-526-2422

Overlaps are computed by land area — near a boundary, check your exact address. Every state and federal seat here is on the ballot November 3, 2026. These are the sitting officeholders, not projected winners.

Boundaries: NYC Dept. of City Planning via NYC Open Data (May 2026). Officeholders verified against official sources on 2026-08-06. District overlaps are computed by area and are approximate near boundaries.