56th Avenue & Peck Avenue

The three-way junction of 56th Avenue and Peck Avenue is in Auburndale, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Corridor Park is 30 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Horace Harding Expwy/188 St, is 0.3 miles away for the Q17, Q30, Q74 and two more, and 14 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings.

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56th Avenue & Peck Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Horace Harding Expwy/188 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q17, Q30, Q74, Q75 and Q88.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Horace Harding Expwy/188 St Q17, Q30, Q74, Q75 +1 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    Q17 Q30 Q74 Q75 Q88
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q30 …
  3. Q74 …
  4. Q75 …
  5. Q88 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Underhill Avenue at Long Island Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184-17 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.5 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 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 March 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
20
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Auburndale
Elevation
39 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 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 1945 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 136 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in June 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Peck Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. Q177 School
    600 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    30 feet
  2. Ella Fitzgerald Playground
    40 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Heavenly Voice Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Fresh Meadows Place Shopping center
    0.3 miles

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
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

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