54th Avenue & Junction Boulevard

The three-way junction of 54th Avenue and Junction Boulevard is in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore is 1,220 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Junction Blvd/55 Av, is 230 feet away for the Q72, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them schools, and 12 places to eat.

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54th Avenue & Junction Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Junction Blvd/55 Av, 230 feet away, for the Q72.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junction Blvd/55 Av Q72
    230 feet
    Q72

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q72 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 56 Ave & Junction Blvd 22 docks in all
    680 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 97th Street, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 94-01 Corona Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 59-17 Junction Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 35 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2019

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
31 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,400 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 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2024 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 54th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 54th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Junction Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Zeta Charter School – Queens 2 School
    640 feet
  2. Zeta Charter School – Queens Elmhurst School
    640 feet
  3. Happy Little Bear Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore School
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,270 feet
  2. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles
  2. Rego Center Shopping center
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and five food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.