60th Avenue & 61st Street

The three-way junction of 60th Avenue and 61st Street is in Maspeth, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Trinity St Andrews Lutheran Church is 900 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Fresh Pond Rd/60 Av, is 360 feet away for the Q58, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and 13 places to eat.

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60th Avenue & 61st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Fresh Pond Rd/60 Av, 360 feet away, for the Q58.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Fresh Pond Rd/60 Av Q58
    360 feet
    Q58

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q58 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 60 Ave & Fresh Pond Rd 19 docks in all
    240 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 59-12 Fresh Pond Road Gas station
    1,090 feet
  2. 57-77 Rust Street Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes 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 January 2024.

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
97 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 153 Maspeth Elem School
    420 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Reiff Playground
    690 feet
  2. Luke J. Lang Square
    900 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Trinity St Andrews Lutheran Church House of worship
    900 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and five 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 11 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.