62nd Avenue & Alderton Street

The three-way junction of 62nd Avenue and Alderton Street is in Rego Park, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Resurrection Ascension Catholic is 810 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and three places to eat. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Woodhaven Blvd/61 Rd · Q11, Q29, QM15
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
62nd Avenue & Alderton Street 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 Woodhaven Blvd/61 Rd, 520 feet away, for the Q11, Q29 and QM15.

  • 19 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodhaven Blvd/61 Rd Q11, Q29, QM15
    520 feet
    Q11 Q29 QM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. Q29 …
  3. QM15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Austin St & 63 Dr 16 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Woodhaven Boulevard, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 61-60 Woodhaven Boulevard Gas station
    940 feet
  2. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and three fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11374
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
30
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rego Park
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1931 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2019 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 62nd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 62nd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Alderton Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Alderton Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Resurrection Ascension Catholic School
    810 feet
  2. Independent Kidz Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. Dry Harbor Nursing Home Nursing home or hospice
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Resurrection Ascension Church House of worship
    660 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 62nd Avenue or Alderton Street.

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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.