74th Street & 30th Avenue

The three-way junction of 74th Street and 30th Avenue is in Jackson Heights, Queens, and is also named Emma Brandt Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Lexington School for the Deaf is 370 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 74 St/31 Av, is 760 feet away for the Q47, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and seven places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
760 feet
74 St/31 Av · Q47
Within a walk
4 places
1 day care or pre-K site, 1 playground and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
74th Street & 30th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 74 St/31 Av, 760 feet away, for the Q47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 74 St/31 Av Q47
    760 feet
    Q47

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 73 St & 25 Ave 19 docks in all
    910 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 28th Avenue & 30th Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 69-05 30th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers and one fast charger
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11370
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
25
Police precinct
115
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
25 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Emma Brandt Way, a co-naming enacted on August 3, 2016 (Local Law 92 of 2016).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 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 1955 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2020 and May 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 30th Avenue

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

East side of 74th Street

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

West side of 74th Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Lexington School for the Deaf School
    370 feet
  2. A Child's Place Too Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Louis C. Moser Playground
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Trainsmeadow Post Office
    620 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Farm Country Supermarket
    540 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,170 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Jackson Heights Shopping Center Shopping center
    310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 30th Avenue or 74th 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 Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.