121st Street & 9th Road

The three-way junction of 121st Street and 9th Road is in College Point, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The bust “Conrad Poppenhusen Memorial” is 530 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 9 Av/College Pl, is 460 feet away for the Q25, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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121st Street & 9th Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 9 Av/College Pl, 460 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 9 Av/College Pl Q25
    460 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound at Whitestone Expressway & 14th Avenue at 144th Place, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 15-01 126th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 121-26 14th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2014.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11356
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
College Point
Elevation
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Poppenhusen Triangle.

  1. Conrad Poppenhusen Memorial Bust by Henry Baerer, 1884
    530 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppenhusen Park
    650 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

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