34th Avenue & 70th Street

The four-way crossing of 34th Avenue and 70th Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Hector Figueroa School is 230 feet away. The nearest subway, 65 St, is about six minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them schools, and 11 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along 70th Street.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
65 St
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
670 feet
Northern Blvd/70 St · Q63, Q66
Within a walk
4 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
34th Avenue & 70th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 65 St, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 65 St M, R
    0.3 miles
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.5 miles
    7 E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/70 St, 670 feet away, for the Q63 and Q66.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/70 St Q63, Q66
    670 feet
    Q63 Q66

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q63 …
  2. Q66 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 70th Street.

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 34 Ave & 71 St 22 docks in all
    250 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 1,260 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 68-22 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    1,140 feet
  2. 62-10 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
25
Police precinct
115
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1930 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 93 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2020 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 70th Street

  • Ambulettes only 3 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 5AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

West side of 70th Street

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice

Schools and child care

  1. The Hector Figueroa School
    230 feet
  2. P.S. 398 Pre-K
    230 feet
  3. I.S. 230 School
    1,020 feet

Health care

  1. Regal Heights Rehabilitation and Health Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    730 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 34th Avenue or 70th Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.