35th Avenue & 83rd Street

The four-way crossing of 35th Avenue and 83rd Street is in Jackson Heights, Queens, and is also named Janet Kelly ‘Knitting Teacher’ Way by local law. It lies inside the Jackson Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Joan of Arc is 180 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about seven minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
83 St/35 Av · Q33
Within a walk
17 places
5 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
35th Avenue & 83rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    0.3 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 83 St/35 Av, 60 feet away, for the Q33.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 83 St/35 Av Q33
    60 feet
    Q33

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q33 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 17 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 81 St & 35 Ave 25 docks in all
    560 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 35th Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 76-19 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, April 2017

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
66 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Janet Kelly ‘Knitting Teacher’ Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,700 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 1930 and 1950.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 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 Janet Kelly ‘Knitting Teacher’ Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 38 signs on these blocks
  • 14 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2020 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 35th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 35th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 466121 and 468861.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Jackson Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 216 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Anglo-American Garden Home, and mostly built between 1927 and 1929.

  1. St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Church Rectory Designated landmark
    210 feet
  2. St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Convent Designated landmark
    300 feet
  3. St. Joan of Arc Roman Catholic Ward Meehan Meeting Hall Designated landmark
    360 feet

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 4 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. 82nd Street Academics Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  2. Brooklyn Archdiocese School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    390 feet
  3. Jackson Developmental Center Jackson School
    500 feet
Show all 8
  1. Jackson Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. St Joan of Arc School Landmark
    520 feet
  3. P.S. 212 School
    610 feet
  4. Jackson Heights Early Learning Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  5. Renaissance Charter School
    1,060 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. 34th Avenue Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jackson Heights Historic District Listed historic place
    580 feet
  2. Jackson Heights Library
    1,000 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Joan of Arc Landmark
    180 feet
  2. Community United Methodist Church Landmark
    340 feet
  3. St Marks Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,020 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 35-24 83rd Street Older adult center
    160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,070 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and five food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 35th Avenue or 83rd 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.