125th Street & 84th Drive

The three-way junction of 125th Street and 84th Drive is in Kew Gardens, Queens, and is also named Max Wernik Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Eight Oaks Triangle is 40 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lefferts Blvd/Austin St, is 1,120 feet away for the Q10, Q80 and QM18, and 11 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and nine places to eat.

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125th Street & 84th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Blvd/Austin St, 1,120 feet away, for the Q10, Q80 and QM18.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Blvd/Austin St Q10, Q80, QM18 · Shelter
    1,120 feet
    Q10 Q80 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q10 …
  2. Q80 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Union Turnpike, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    0.8 miles

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11415
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
91 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Max Wernik Triangle, a co-naming enacted on March 5, 1982 (Local Law 16 of 1982).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1933 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Max Wernik Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and November 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 125th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

North side of 84th Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of 84th Drive

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 post office

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Eight Oaks Triangle
    40 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Post Office
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.