Richmond Hill is a commercial and residential neighborhood located in the southeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.

The Long Island Rail Road provides freight access via the Montauk Branch, which runs diagonally through the neighborhood from northwest to southeast.

[6][7] Richmond Hill is home to a density of Hindu, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Sikh, Jewish, and Muslim places of worship.

Hillside Avenue forms its northern boundary with Kew Gardens east of Lefferts Boulevard, while Forest Park and the right-of-way of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Montauk Branch form its northern edge west of Lefferts.

Protected by its thickly-wooded area, American riflemen used guerrilla warfare tactics to attack and defeat the advancing Hessians.

[15] Clarenceville, a farming community, was established in January 1853 on the south side of Jamaica Avenue between 110th and 112th Streets on land purchased from the Welling estate.

[13][22] In 1868, Albon Platt Man, a successful Manhattan lawyer, purchased the Lefferts, Welling, and Bergen farms along with other plots amounting to 400 acres of land, and hired Richmond to lay out the community.

[25] Man's sons would later found the nearby Kew Gardens neighborhood from the northern portion of the land.

[20][21][26][22] Streets, schools, a church, and a railroad were built in Richmond Hill over the next decade, thus making the area one of the earliest residential communities on Long Island.

[20] Richmond Hill was incorporated as an independent village in 1894, by which time it had also absorbed the Morris Park neighborhood, which had been established in 1885.

[31] The area received further development when the BMT Jamaica Line elevated, now served by the New York City Subway's J and ​Z trains, was extended east into the neighborhood at Greenwood Avenue (now 111th Street) on May 28, 1917.

[20][30] Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Richmond Hill was 62,982, a decrease of 3 (0.0%) from the 62,985 counted in 2000.

[36] In 2018, an estimated 22% of Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens residents lived in poverty, compared to 19% in all of Queens and 20% in all of New York City.

Based on this calculation, as of 2018[update], Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens are considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.

[33]: 7 Originally, many European (Italian, Dutch, English, Irish, Scots, Danish, and German) and Jewish families lived in Richmond Hill.

[37] Between Myrtle Avenue and the Montauk Line railroad is a former movie theatre, RKO Keith's Richmond Hill Theater, opened in 1929, functioning since 1968 as a bingo hall.

[46] Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places are Public School 66 and Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish.

[47] Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, and Woodhaven are patrolled by the 102nd Precinct of the NYPD, located at 87–34 118th Street.

[49] Richmond Hill contains three New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[50] As of 2018[update], preterm births are more common in Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common.

[33]: 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens is 0.0073 milligrams per cubic metre (7.3×10−9 oz/cu ft), less than the city average.

[33]: 13  In Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens, 23% of residents are obese, 14% are diabetic, and 22% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 22%, 8%, and 23% respectively.

[65] Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is less than the rest of New York City.

[34]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [33]: 6  Additionally, 79% of high school students in Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.

[79] There was a Long Island Rail Road station named Richmond Hill on Hillside Avenue and Babbage Street along the Montauk Branch.