88th Street & Myrtle Avenue

The three-way junction of 88th Street and Myrtle Avenue is in Glendale, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Forest Park is 140 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Myrtle Av/88 St, is 50 feet away for the Q55, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them park features, and four places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
540 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Myrtle Av/88 St · Q55
Within a walk
6 places
2 park features, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
88th Street & Myrtle Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Myrtle Av/88 St, 50 feet away, for the Q55.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Myrtle Av/88 St Q55
    50 feet
    Q55

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q55 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Myrtle Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 540 feet by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
32
Police precinct
102 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Glendale
Elevation
126 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 park features
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Bandshell in Forest Park Park feature
    140 feet
  2. Forest Park
    140 feet
  3. Carousel in Forest Park Park feature
    900 feet
Show all 4
  1. Greenhouse Playground
    1,190 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church House of worship
    300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four 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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 88th Street or Myrtle Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.