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Neighborhood of Queens in New York City

Rego Park is built on lands originally part of the Leni Lenape Nation, possibly inhabited by members of the Canarsee band. By 1653, though, English and Dutch farmers moved into the area and founded a community called Whitepot, which was a part of the Township of Newtown. Whitepot is believed to be so named because Dutch settlers named the area "Whiteput", or "hollow creek"; later, English settlers Anglicized the name. In 1930, the Independent Subway System began work on eight IND Queens Boulevard Line stations in the area, at a cost of $5 million. The subway extension was concurrent with the Real Good Construction Company's completion of apartment buildings near Queens Boulevard and one family homes throughout the rest of the neighborhood. The short block of 63rd Drive between Austin Street and the Long Island Railroad overpass was the scene of a fire in February 1972 that claimed a row of stores and the neighborhood library. A similar fire had decimated the same block in 1959. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 46.2% (13,068) White, 2.5% (698) African American, 0.1% (41) Native American, 31.7% (8,966) Asian, 0.1% (7) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (124) from other races, and 2.4% (674) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.6% (4,682) of the population. The entirety of Community Board 6, which comprises Rego Park and Forest Hills, had 115,119 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.4 years. This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. The plurality of inhabitants are middle aged and elderly adults: 31% are between the ages of 25 and 44, 28% between 45 and 64, and 19% over 64. The ratio of young and college aged residents was lower, at 16% and 5% respectively. In 2018, an estimated 16% of Rego Park and Forest Hills residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City. One in seventeen residents (6%) were unemployed, compared to 8% in Queens and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 50% in Rego Park and Forest Hills, lower than the boroughwide and citywide rates of 53% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, Rego Park and Forest Hills is considered to be high income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying. This is especially so in an area called the Crescents, named for its semicircular shaped streets emanating in a concentric pattern from Alderton Street, between Woodhaven Boulevard and the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line. The Crescents contain many Tudor and single family homes, as well as large lawns and tree plantings on the sidewalks. Vornado Realty Trust built a 312 unit residential tower on top of Rego Center Phase II, to accommodate a surge in young professionals moving into the area. About 20% of the units are studio apartments, with the rest being one and two bedroom apartments. In addition, other new residential projects are also under construction around the neighborhood.

Rego Park is home to some of Queens' most popular shopping destinations, including the , 4 floor Rego Center. Phase I has several large retailers Phase II opened in 2010 with of retail space but closed in December 2022. Across the Long Island Expressway, in nearby Elmhurst, is the Queens Center Mall. a supermarket, and automobile parking. The mall doubled in size from 2002 to 2004. The main business thoroughfare of Rego Park is 63rd Drive. The main section extends from Woodhaven Boulevard in the south, to Queens Boulevard in the north, with the central business district of Rego Park nestled between Alderton Street (just south of the Long Island Rail Road overpass), and Queens Boulevard. The stretch south of Alderton is entirely residential. The business district is anchored by The Rego Park School PS 139Q, an elementary school dating from 1928 and Our Saviour Lutheran Church established in 1926 which right across Wetherole Street from PS 139Q. The business district is criss crossed by four side streets: Saunders, Booth, Wetherole, and Austin Streets. Most of the businesses lining 63rd Drive are the original single story "Taxpayers" dating from the 1930s. Across Queens Boulevard to the north, 63rd Drive becomes 63rd Road, and its business district continues another three blocks; 63rd Drive actually shifts one block south of 63rd Road. There are many small businesses in this area. Shopping districts with many smaller stores, bakeries, pharmacies and restaurants can be found along 108th Street as well. While the VFW maintains its offices at the building, the American Legion left in 1962. The site also contains a play area and a New York City Department of Environmental Protection water pumping station. The Drake Theater, which opened in 1935 and closed in the 1990s, was used in the 1997 film Private Parts. The theater was damaged in December 1978 after around 500 people, complaining about the theater's sound system threw beer and liquor bottles at the screen and tearing holes in it, smashing seats and the candy counter with fire extinguishers from the walls, and breaking all the glass doors at the entrance. The Trylon Theater, an art deco theater built around the time of the 1939 New York World's Fair, was converted to the home of the Education Center for Russian Jewry in 2006. After local furor over interior refurbishment, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was considering landmarking the property.

as of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in Rego Park and Forest Hills than in other places citywide. In Rego Park and Forest Hills, there were 66 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 4.6 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).

Rego Park is covered by ZIP Code 11374. The United States Post Office operates the Rego Park Station at 92 24 Queens Boulevard.

Rego Park and Forest Hills generally have a higher percentage of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. The majority of residents (62%) have a college education or higher, while 8% have less than a high school education and 30% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 39% of Queens residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. Rego Park and Forest Hills's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City. In Rego Park and Forest Hills, 10% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%. P. S. 174 (William Sidney Mount School)
P. S. 175 (the Lynn Gross Discovery School)
P. S. 206 (the Horace Harding School, grades K–5)
P. S. 220 (Edward Mandel School)

All areas in Rego Park are zoned to J. H. S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey (6–9), in Rego Park, or J. H. S. 190 Russell Sage (7–9) in Forest Hills. Rego Park is not zoned to a high school because all New York City high schools get students by application, though Forest Hills High School is located in nearby Forest Hills.

Our Lady of the Angelus, a PK–8 private school operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, is located in Rego Park. Resurrection Ascension School, another PK–8 private school operated by the Diocese of Brooklyn, is also located in Rego Park. Our Saviour Lutheran School, K 8, is on Woodhaven Boulevard and is a ministry of Our Saviour Lutheran Church on 63rd Drive. Private institutions include the Rego Park Jewish Center and the Jewish Institute of Queens (also known as the Queens Gymnasia).

The Queens Public Library's Rego Park branch is located at 91 41 63rd Drive. It had 189,000 visitors and a total circulation of 194,000 in 2016. The existing one story branch, built in 1975, is planned to be replaced with a two story, building between 2021 and 2024.

The IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway has local stations at 63rd Drive and 67th Avenue, served by the The line, running under Queens Boulevard, dates from 1935 to 1937. The local buses serve the neighborhood, as well as the express buses. The Long Island Rail Road overpass between Austin and Alderton Streets was the location of the Rego Park station until its abandonment in 1962. Though physically part of the Main Line, the station was only served by Rockaway Beach Branch trains. The station was later dismantled, and little can be discerned of its existence now save for the flattened clearing beside the tracks.

Rego Park was the setting of the 1980s sitcom Dear John, which centered around the fictional "Rego Park Community Center". The CBS sitcom The King of Queens is set in Rego Park, and sometimes shows clips of the area. What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel by Irina Reyn is set in Rego Park. Most of the characters are Bukharan Jews who have emigrated from the Soviet Union. Brooklyn's Finest, a 2010 release, was filmed in part in Rego Park. A substantial part of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, a biographical account of his father, a Holocaust survivor, is set in Rego Park. The 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street was filmed in part in Rego Park, at the now demolished Shalimar Diner. In an episode of General Hospital originally aired on May 26, 2015, Denise, an emerging character, claims that she's from Rego Park.