156th Avenue & Lahn Street

The three-way junction of 156th Avenue and Lahn Street is in Howard Beach-Lindenwood, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Howard Beach Library is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, Aqueduct-N Conduit Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the A. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and five places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

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156th Avenue & Lahn Street Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Aqueduct-N Conduit Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. Aqueduct-N Conduit Av A
    0.5 miles
    A

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. A …
Rockaways
1 line
  1. A …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 157 Av/Cohancy St, 930 feet away, for the Q11 and QM15.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 157 Av/Cohancy St Q11, QM15
    930 feet
    Q11 QM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. QM15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Nassau Expressway eastbound at 155th Avenue & Belt Parkway, 1,200 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 159-04 Cross Bay Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 89-35 155th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 130th Place Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 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 February 2017.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11414
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
32
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Howard Beach-Lindenwood
Elevation
7 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 400 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 1950 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in October 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 156th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Howard Beach Library
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 155-55 Cross Bay Boulevard Older adult center
    710 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    810 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    850 feet
  3. Citibank Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Stop & Shop Supermarket
    650 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.