‘Rego’ comes from the Real Good Construction Company, which developed the area.
The company began building here in 1925, and the name takes the first two letters of the first two words of its name: REal GOod. Before that, English and Dutch farmers had founded a community called Whitepot, believed to come from the Dutch ‘Whiteput’, ‘hollow creek’. In the Queens grid, a Drive is an extra east–west street that follows the Avenue and the Road of the same number.