8th Avenue & College Place

The four-way crossing of 8th Avenue and College Place is in College Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Poppenhusen Park is 880 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 9 Av/College Pl, is 310 feet away for the Q25, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them parks. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
2 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Whitestone Expressway
1.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
310 feet
9 Av/College Pl · Q25
Within a walk
3 places
2 parks and 1 public space, within five minutes

Map

Layers
8th Avenue & College Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 9 Av/College Pl, 310 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 9 Av/College Pl Q25
    310 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Whitestone Expressway northbound at Whitestone Expressway & 14th Avenue at 144th Place, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 15-01 126th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 121-26 14th Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11356
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
College Point
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 public space

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppenhusen Park
    880 feet
  2. Hermon A. MacNeil Park
    1,090 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. Public space at Soundview Pointe Public space
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

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 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 8th Avenue or College Place.

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