55th Drive & Queens Midtown Expressway Service Road S at Perry Avenue

The four-way crossing of 55th Drive, Queens Midtown Expressway Service Road S and Perry Avenue is in Maspeth, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Frontera Park is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Queens Midtown Expwy/Hamilton Pl, is 300 feet away for the Q18 and Q67, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, six of them parks, and ten places to eat.

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55th Drive & Queens Midtown Expressway Service Road S at Perry Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Midtown Expwy/Hamilton Pl, 300 feet away, for the Q18 and Q67.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Midtown Expwy/Hamilton Pl Q18, Q67
    300 feet
    Q18 Q67

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q18 …
  2. Q67 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Ave & Remsen Pl 21 docks in all
    890 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Queens Midtown Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 66-15 Borden Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 56-18 69th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1,090 feet
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11378
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Maspeth
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ateres Pesha Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    660 feet
  2. Metro Therapy - Maspeth School
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Whitefish Triangle
    150 feet
  2. Whitefish Triangle Playground
    190 feet
  3. Frontera Park
    640 feet
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  1. Technical Sergeant Thomas J. Davey Triangle
    780 feet
  2. Frontera Park Playground
    810 feet
  3. Hull Triangle
    870 feet
  4. Hull Triangle Playground
    870 feet
  5. Federalist Triangle
    930 feet
  6. Peter Chahales Park
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Transfiguration RC Church House of worship
    1,010 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 288 Fire station
    1,190 feet

Bank branches

  1. Bank of America Bank branch
    470 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    500 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    430 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and 13 food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.