137th Street & Leavitt Street

The three-way junction of 137th Street and Leavitt Street is in Flushing-Willets Point, Queens, at the edge of NYCHA's Latimer Gardens development. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Lewis H Latimer House is 60 feet away, and Flushing High School is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union St/35 Av, is 580 feet away for the Q16, Q20 and Q44 SBS. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 36 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Union St/35 Av · Q16, Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
22 places
5 religious buildings, 4 schools and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
137th Street & Leavitt Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union St/35 Av, 580 feet away, for the Q16, Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union St/35 Av Q16, Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    580 feet
    Q16 Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q16 …
  2. Q20 …
  3. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 137-17 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    1,120 feet
  2. 135-23 39th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2017

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11354
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flushing-Willets Point
Elevation
12 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 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 1970 and 2006.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Latimer Gardens development.

Since 2014 at least 14 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 137th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 8AM-4PM ALL DAYS

West side of 137th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

West side of Leavitt Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Three buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Collegiate Gothic, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival (early), one each, and built between 1862 and 1915.

Monuments and public art

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

  1. Flushing Memorial Exedra by Herman Atkins MacNeil, 1925
    740 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Little Masters Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    40 feet
  2. Children's House Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    460 feet
  3. Ace Beauty Academy Trade or language school
    590 feet
Show all 9
  1. Queens Academy High School
    590 feet
  2. Flushing High School Landmark · listed historic place
    980 feet
  3. Queens High School for Language Studies School
    980 feet
  4. Veritas Academy School
    980 feet
  5. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
  6. Acadia Beauty School Trade or language school
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Greens Park
    710 feet
  2. Daniel Carter Beard Mall
    1,080 feet

Health care

  1. Union Plaza Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lewis H Latimer House Historic site
    60 feet
  2. Flushing Armory Listed historic place
    940 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Flushing Town Hall Arts or cultural center · landmark · listed historic place
    760 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St John Vianney RC Church House of worship
    520 feet
  2. Old Quaker Meeting House Listed historic place
    1,210 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Latimer Gardens Community Center
    390 feet
  2. Older adult center at 34-30 137th Street Older adult center
    390 feet

Supermarkets

  1. 99 Ranch Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. H Mart Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 36 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 137th Street or Leavitt Street.

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