84th Street & 78th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 84th Street and 78th Avenue is in Glendale, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sacred Heart Catholic-Glendale is 150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 78 Av/81 St, is 810 feet away for the Q29, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings. About 800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1935, almost all in houses of one or two.

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84th Street & 78th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 78 Av/81 St, 810 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 78 Av/81 St Q29
    810 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 Myrtle Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 89-07 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Charging for electric cars, seven fast chargers
    1 mile

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 January 2026.

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
77 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 800 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 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 78th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 78th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 84th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Sacred Heart Catholic-Glendale School
    150 feet
  2. P.S./I.S. 113 Anthony J. Pranzo School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    1,080 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Glendale Sacred Heart Church House of worship
    180 feet

Shopping centers

  1. The Shops at Atlas Park Shopping center
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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 11 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.