101st Street & Martense Avenue

The four-way crossing of 101st Street and Martense Avenue is in Corona, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Simeone Park is 650 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 57 Av/99 St, is 730 feet away for the QM10, QM11 and QM40, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and three places to eat.

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101st Street & Martense Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 57 Av/99 St, 730 feet away, for the QM10, QM11 and QM40.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 57 Av/99 St QM10, QM11, QM40 · Shelter
    730 feet
    QM10 QM11 QM40
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM10 …
  2. QM11 …
  3. QM40 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Martense Avenue.

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 103 St & Martense Ave 19 docks in all
    650 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 99-49 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 59-17 Junction Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 35 Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11368
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
21
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Corona
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1962 and 1989.

Since 2014 at least 81 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2018 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 101st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 101st Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Martense Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 54-25 101 Street Pre-K center
    460 feet
  2. Johnson's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sparrow's Nest Community Garden
    510 feet
  2. Simeone Park
    650 feet
  3. Corona Peachtree Community Garden
    1,270 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefrak City Library
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.