12th Avenue & College Place

The three-way junction of 12th Avenue and College Place is in College Point, Queens, and is also named Betty Pegen Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. The bust “Conrad Poppenhusen Memorial” is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 14 Av/College Point Blvd, is 690 feet away for the Q26, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
14 Av/College Point Blvd · Q26
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
12th Avenue & College Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 14 Av/College Point Blvd, 690 feet away, for the Q26.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 14 Av/College Point Blvd Q26
    690 feet
    Q26

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound at Whitestone Expressway & 14th Avenue at 144th Place, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 15-01 126th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 121-26 14th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    1,050 feet
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2023.

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
65 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Betty Pegen Way, a co-naming enacted on December 28, 2009 (Local Law 92 of 2009).

The streets

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

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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Betty Pegen Way.

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Two buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Classical Revival and Second Empire, one each, and built between 1857 and 1904.

Monuments and public art

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

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 older adult center

Schools and child care

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

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppenhusen Park
    50 feet
  2. College Point Park
    810 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Poppenhusen Library Landmark
    630 feet
  2. Firemen's Hall Listed historic place
    1,020 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Fidelis RC Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 13-28 123rd Street Older adult center
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    970 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 12th Avenue or College Place.

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