118th Street & Atlantic Avenue

The four-way crossing of 118th Street and Atlantic Avenue is in Richmond Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 918 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Lt. Frank McConnell Park is 340 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Atlantic Av/Lefferts Blvd, is 100 feet away for the Q24, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

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118th Street & Atlantic Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Atlantic Av/Lefferts Blvd, 100 feet away, for the Q24.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Atlantic Av/Lefferts Blvd Q24
    100 feet
    Q24

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q24 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 91-62 Lefferts Boulevard Gas station
    520 feet
  2. 150-07 Archer Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2015
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2022

In 2025, 918 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 822nd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 421 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Richmond Hill
Elevation
56 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 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 1910 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2017 and August 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 118th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of 118th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-5PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Epic High School - North School
    480 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Lt. Frank McConnell Park
    340 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Benedict Joseph Labre Church Listed historic place
    370 feet
  2. Bethlehem Church House of worship
    1,050 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 13/Squad 270 Fire station
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.