34th Avenue & 89th Street

The four-way crossing of 34th Avenue and 89th Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens, and is also named Ed Sedarbaum & Howard Cruse Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Playground Ninety is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
0.5 miles · 9 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
89 St/34 Av · Q49
Within a walk
4 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 playground and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
34th Avenue & 89th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 0.5 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.5 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 89 St/34 Av, 70 feet away, for the Q49.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 89 St/34 Av Q49
    70 feet
    Q49

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q49 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 34 Ave & 89 St 27 docks in all
    60 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 35th Avenue, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 97-15 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers and one fast charger
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2025

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
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Ed Sedarbaum & Howard Cruse Corner, a co-naming enacted on August 13, 2025 (Local Law 121 of 2025).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,800 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 1928 and 1957.

Trees

NYC Parks records 88 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ed Sedarbaum & Howard Cruse Corner.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 34th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 89th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 89th Street

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

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 82 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Anglo-American Garden Home, and mostly built between 1925 and 1926.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Children of America Educational Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    850 feet
  2. P.S. 149 Christa McAuliffe School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Ninety Playground
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    730 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    730 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and four food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 34th Avenue or 89th 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, NYC Records, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.