81st Street & 77th Avenue

The three-way junction of 81st Street and 77th Avenue is in Glendale, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Glendale Sacred Heart Church is 910 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 80 St/77 Rd, is 440 feet away for the Q29, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1935, almost all in houses of one or two.

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81st Street & 77th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 80 St/77 Rd, 440 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 80 St/77 Rd Q29
    440 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Forest Park Drive & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-13 Cooper Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 85-01 68th Road Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1 mile
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

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 June 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
32
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Glendale
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 1920 and 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 22 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2015 and November 2016, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 77th Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 77th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 81st Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 81st Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sacred Heart Catholic-Glendale School
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Glendale Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    910 feet

Shopping centers

  1. The Shops at Atlas Park Shopping center
    230 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and one food store.

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 9 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, NYC Finance and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.