82nd Street & Baxter Avenue

The four-way crossing of 82nd Street and Baxter Avenue is in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle is 560 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 71 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
520 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
82 St/Roosevelt Av · Q29
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
82nd Street & Baxter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 520 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    520 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.3 miles
    M R
  2. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    7 E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 82 St/Roosevelt Av, 480 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St/Roosevelt Av Q29
    480 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 75 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    200 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
25
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are 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 1932 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 10 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Baxter Avenue (east side).

East side of 82nd Street

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 82nd Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Baxter Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 465054 and 467664.

Landmarks and historic districts

Fourteen buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Vernacular, and mostly built between 1911 and 1923.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank Designated landmark
    620 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 hospital
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    460 feet
  2. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    490 feet
  3. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    710 feet
Show all 5
  1. Star America Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    920 feet
  2. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunningham Triangle
    110 feet
  2. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    560 feet
  3. Frank D. O'Connor Playground
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 46 Ambulance station
    830 feet
  2. Elmhurst Hospital Center Hospital
    840 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    840 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    900 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    930 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    330 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 71 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 82nd Street or Baxter Avenue.

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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.