43rd Avenue & Judge Street

The four-way crossing of 43rd Avenue and Judge Street is in Elmhurst, Queens, and is also named Janta-Połczyńska Polish Heroes Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Veterans Grove is 60 feet away. The nearest subway, Elmhurst Av, is about six minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and 27 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Elmhurst Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
900 feet
Hampton St/Whitney Ave · Q29
Within a walk
17 places
13 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
43rd Avenue & Judge Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

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

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Elmhurst Av 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 …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Whitney Ave, 900 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Whitney Ave Q29
    900 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Whitney Ave & Ketcham Pl 25 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Queens Boulevard, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 94-01 Corona Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 89-30 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
25
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
49 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Janta-Połczyńska Polish Heroes Way, a co-naming enacted on January 17, 2021 (Local Law 14 of 2021).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1937 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Janta-Połczyńska Polish Heroes Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 43rd Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Judge Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Judge Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. St Bartholomew Catholic Academy School
    130 feet
  2. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 44-15 Judge Street Pre-K center
    130 feet
  3. B'Above Worldwide Institute Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Veterans Grove Playground
    60 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 27 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 43rd Avenue or Judge Street.

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