56th Avenue & 94th Street

The three-way junction of 56th Avenue and 94th Street is in Elmhurst, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 497 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore is 270 feet away, and Horsebrook Island is 1,210 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about seven minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
810 feet
Junction Blvd/57 Av · Q72
Within a walk
9 places
5 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
56th Avenue & 94th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Woodhaven Blvd, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Woodhaven Blvd 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 …

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “In Memory of the Lost Batallion” (1996) by Pablo Tauler at the Woodhaven Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Junction Blvd/57 Av, 810 feet away, for the Q72.

  • 16 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junction Blvd/57 Av Q72 · Shelter · Countdown sign
    810 feet
    Q72
    Shelter · Countdown sign

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q72 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 56th Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 94 St & 57 Ave 25 docks in all
    380 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
    0.6 miles
  2. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and three fast chargers
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, March 2026

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 497 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,186th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 131 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
19 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1961 and 1964.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2023 and June 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 56th Avenue

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-6PM

South side of 56th Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 94th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 94th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore School
    270 feet
  2. Happy Little Bear Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    560 feet
  3. John F. Kennedy Jr. School
    580 feet
Show all 6
  1. Zeta Charter School – Queens 2 School
    580 feet
  2. Zeta Charter School – Queens Elmhurst School
    580 feet
  3. Cathedral Prep School-Seminary School
    930 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newtown Playground
    360 feet
  2. Horsebrook Island Park
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,260 feet
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles
  2. Costco Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    690 feet
  2. Queens Place Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 56th Avenue or 94th Street.

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