89th Avenue & 86th Street

The four-way crossing of 89th Avenue and 86th Street is in Woodhaven, Queens, and is also named Firefighter LT Robert F. Wallace Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Engine 293 firehouse is 750 feet away. The nearest subway, 85 St-Forest Pkwy, is about five minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
85 St-Forest Pkwy
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · J
Nearest bus stop
1,250 feet
Jamaica Av/85 St · J90, T340
Within a walk
10 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
89th Avenue & 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 85 St-Forest Pkwy, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 85 St-Forest Pkwy J
    0.3 miles
    J

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. J …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. J …

Also within a walk

  1. Woodhaven Blvd J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jamaica Av/85 St, 1,250 feet away, for the J90 and T340.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica Av/85 St J90, T340
    1,250 feet
    J90 T340

Next buses at this stop

  1. J90 …
  2. T340 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Forest Park Drive & J Robinson Parkway, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 87-15 Rockaway Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 9325 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1 mile
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

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. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11421
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
32
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Woodhaven
Elevation
38 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Firefighter LT Robert F. Wallace Street, a co-naming enacted on May 9, 2005 (Local Law 43 of 2005).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 1910 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Firefighter LT Robert F. Wallace Street.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Acade School
    840 feet
  2. Saint Thomas Apostle Catholic Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    1,030 feet
  3. District 27 Pre-K Center at 87-40 88th Street Pre-K center
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Equity Playground
    1,070 feet
  2. Lt. Clinton L. Whiting Square
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Tabernacle of Emmanuel Full Gospel Assemblies House of worship
    820 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 89-02 91st Street Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 293 Fire station
    750 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 86th Street or 89th Avenue.

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