57th Avenue & Junction Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 57th Avenue and Junction Boulevard is in Elmhurst, Queens, and is also named Barbara Jackson Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Elmhurst Post Office is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about eight minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them schools, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
19 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Junction Blvd/57 Av · Q72, QM10, QM40
Within a walk
11 places
5 schools, 2 trade or language schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
57th 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 eight 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 …

Also within a walk

  1. 63 Dr-Rego Park M, R
    0.5 miles
    M 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, 50 feet away, for the Q72, QM10 and QM40.

  • 17 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Junction Blvd/57 Av Q72, QM10, QM40
    50 feet
    Q72 QM10 QM40

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q72 …
  2. QM10 …
  3. QM40 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 57th Avenue and Junction Boulevard.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 97th Street, 0.3 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
    780 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 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 10 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2016
  • Turn calming, February 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
21 and 25 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
17 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Barbara Jackson Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,000 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 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Barbara Jackson Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 45 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2019 and March 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm on Junction Boulevard (west side).

North side of 57th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM

South side of 57th Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Junction Boulevard

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-4PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AVO US GOVERNMENT
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-9AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 462766, 467056 and 467982.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Zeta Charter School – Queens 2 School
    330 feet
  2. Zeta Charter School – Queens Elmhurst School
    330 feet
  3. Happy Little Bear Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    340 feet
Show all 8
  1. John F. Kennedy Jr. School
    690 feet
  2. P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore School
    830 feet
  3. Mti Business School Trade or language school
    910 feet
  4. Mti Business School-Queens (5002) Trade or language school
    910 feet
  5. Cathedral Prep School-Seminary School
    1,120 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Newtown Playground
    1,050 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefrak City Library
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst Post Office
    630 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    420 feet
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    790 feet
  2. Rego Center Shopping center
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and eight 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 57th 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.