83rd Street & Baxter Avenue

The three-way junction of 83rd Street and Baxter Avenue is in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Dunningham Triangle is 370 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 103 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
510 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
83 St/Roosevelt Av · Q29
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
83rd Street & Baxter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 510 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.4 miles
    7
  2. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 83 St/Roosevelt Av, 180 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 83 St/Roosevelt Av Q29
    180 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    360 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
    0.6 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 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 1926 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and December 2024, 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).

West side of 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Baxter Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 409756 and 467445.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 55 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Romanesque, and mostly built between 1911 and 1926.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank Designated landmark
    400 feet
  2. English Gables Designated landmark
    790 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 parks
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    220 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    590 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    670 feet
Show all 5
  1. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,140 feet
  2. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    100 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    370 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 46 Ambulance station
    1,290 feet
  2. Elmhurst Hospital Center Hospital
    1,300 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    780 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    810 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,080 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 103 places to eat and 29 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 83rd 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.