56th Avenue & Junction Boulevard

The three-way junction of 56th Avenue and Junction Boulevard is in Corona, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Newtown Playground is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them schools, and 16 places to eat. About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1962 and 1964, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Junction Blvd/57 Av · Q72
Within a walk
9 places
4 schools, 2 trade or language schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
56th Avenue & Junction Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Woodhaven Blvd, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Woodhaven Blvd M, R
    0.4 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, 200 feet away, for the Q72.

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

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 97th Street, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 94-01 Corona Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 59-17 Junction Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 35 Level 2 chargers
    1,010 feet
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 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 May 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, January 2017

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)
Corona
Elevation
21 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1962 and 1964.

Trees

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2024 and September 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 56th Avenue

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

West side of Junction Boulevard

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Zeta Charter School – Queens 2 School
    100 feet
  2. Zeta Charter School – Queens Elmhurst School
    100 feet
  3. Happy Little Bear Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    580 feet
Show all 7
  1. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore School
    600 feet
  2. John F. Kennedy Jr. School
    920 feet
  3. Mti Business School Trade or language school
    1,140 feet
  4. Mti Business School-Queens (5002) Trade or language school
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newtown Playground
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst Post Office
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    650 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Cherry Valley Marketplace Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    1,020 feet
  2. Rego Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 56th Avenue or Junction Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, 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.