154th Street & Bayside Avenue
The four-way crossing of 154th Street and Bayside Avenue is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens, and is also named Lieutenant Phillip P. Bayer Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bowne Park is 320 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bayside Av/154 St, is 130 feet away for the Q16, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Bayside Av/154 St, 130 feet away, for the Q16.
- 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Bayside Av/154 St Q16130 feetQ16
Next buses at this stop
- Q16 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway northbound, 1.3 miles by car along the streets.
- 152-06 Northern Boulevard Gas station0.6 miles
- 144-20 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, 39 Level 2 chargers1.2 miles
- 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars1.7 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
- 2 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 1 of those hurt, on foot
The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2023.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11354
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 7
- City Council district
- 19
- Police precinct
- 109
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
- Elevation
- 95 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Lieutenant Phillip P. Bayer Square, a co-naming enacted on July 24, 1950 (Local Law 83 of 1950).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 300 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 1925 and 1950.
Trees
NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Lieutenant Phillip P. Bayer Square.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 20 signs on these blocks
- 5 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2021 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of 154th Street
- No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
West side of 154th Street
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
North side of Bayside Avenue
- No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9AM-10:30AM
South side of Bayside Avenue
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9AM-10:30AM
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedSix public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 2 religious buildings
- 1 day care or pre-K site
- 1 park
- 1 recreation center
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- St Mel Catholic Academy School830 feet
- I Bear Daycare Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K1,260 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Bowne Park320 feet
Houses of worship
- St Mels RC Church House of worship760 feet
Community centers and public services
- Bowne Park Recreation Center1,160 feet
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:
- 29th Avenue & 154th Street 70 feet
- 153rd Street & Bayside Avenue 270 feet
- 155th Street & 29th Avenue 280 feet
- 28th Avenue & 154th Street 340 feet
- Bayside Avenue & 152nd Street 530 feet
- 29th Avenue & 156th Street 540 feet
- 27th Avenue & 154th Street 600 feet
- 32nd Avenue & 154th Street 610 feet
See every intersection along 154th Street or Bayside Avenue.