34th Avenue & 77th Street

The four-way crossing of 34th Avenue and 77th Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Travers Park is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 75 St/34 Av, is 600 feet away for the Q47, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
600 feet
75 St/34 Av · Q47
Within a walk
11 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
34th Avenue & 77th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 75 St/34 Av, 600 feet away, for the Q47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 75 St/34 Av Q47
    600 feet
    Q47

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 5 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 & 74 St 25 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 35th Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 76-19 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    910 feet
  2. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers and one fast charger
    1,320 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

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
55 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,600 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 1939 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 125 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 77th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 77th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Thirteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as neo-Georgian, and built between 1921 and 1939.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 field
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Jhelc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    520 feet
  2. Jackson Heights Early Learning Center Annex Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    580 feet
  3. Garden School
    770 feet
Show all 6
  1. I.S. 145 Joseph Pulitzer School
    960 feet
  2. I.S. 230 School
    1,010 feet
  3. Jackson Heights Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Travers Park
    50 feet
  2. Rory Staunton Field
    470 feet
  3. Travers Park Playground
    480 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. 78th Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    500 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Marks Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Dynasty Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  3. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Jackson Heights Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and two 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 34th Avenue or 77th Street.

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