23rd Avenue & 125th Street

The four-way crossing of 23rd Avenue and 125th Street is in College Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 029 Queens is 200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 23 Av/127 St, is 570 feet away for the Q25, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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23rd Avenue & 125th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 23 Av/127 St, 570 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 23 Av/127 St Q25
    570 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway southbound at Whitestone Expressway & Ulmer Street at Whitestone Expressway Turnaround, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 130-05 20th Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 121-26 14th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

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
68 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 125th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 23rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 field
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 029 Queens School
    200 feet
  2. District 25 Pre-K Center at 123-07 22nd Avenue Pre-K center
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppenhusen Playground
    1,100 feet
  2. College Point Fields Field
    1,290 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Johns Lutheran Church House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 10 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.