Simon says retirement?

If Paul Simon is serious about calling it quits, he didn’t let on to a hometown crowd.

The first of Simon’s two concerts in his native Queens, the conclusion of the singer’s North American tour, took on an added resonance when he mused to The New York Times in an interview this week that he may be nearing retirement. Simon turns 75 in October.

Simon didn’t address the subject in a two-hour show at Forest Hills Stadium on June 30. With nearly 60 years of music to choose from, Simon’s heart — and much of his song selection — seemed to start with his Graceland album.

“It’s kind of a time warp,” said Simon.

“I’m trying to get over whether it’s strange or just a beautiful dream.”

The audience loudly cheered references to New York City in his music — a New York City winter in The Boxer, the Statue of Liberty in American Tune.

After getting people dancing to Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, Simon slyly noted, “and I know just where that schoolyard is.”

He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and was 15 when he and a school buddy, Art Garfunkel, had a minor hit with the song Hey, Schoolgirl, under the name Tom and Jerry. The folk-rock duo they formed under their own names was among the biggest-selling acts of the 1960s.

Simon, the writer of the duo, went on to a fruitful solo career capped by this spring ’s Stranger to Stranger. The album was praised by critics and, somewhat surprisingly in a youth-obsessed industry, also has proven to be a commercial success.

Simon’s nine-piece band skilfully navigated the swath of musical territory Simon explores in his music, from Africa to Brazil to Peru to New Orleans to Memphis.

He ended the night in a guise familiar to many of his older fans: alone on stage with his acoustic guitar, singing American Tune.

Simon is booked for a European tour this fall.