99th Street & 55th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 99th Street and 55th Avenue is in Corona, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Pauls Apostle Church is 350 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 99 St/55 Av, is 160 feet away for the Q14, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and one place to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
160 feet
99 St/55 Av · Q14
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 gardens and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
99th Street & 55th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 99 St/55 Av, 160 feet away, for the Q14.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 99 St/55 Av Q14
    160 feet
    Q14

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q14 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 55th Avenue, 99th Street and Lewis Avenue.

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 100 St & Lewis Ave 21 docks in all
    210 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 99-49 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 59-17 Junction Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 35 Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11368
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
21
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Corona
Elevation
15 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,000 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 1962 and 1989.

Since 2014 at least 74 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 11 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 55th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 55th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

East side of 99th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 99th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Lewis Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 55-41 98 Place Pre-K center
    370 feet
  2. Johnson's Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
  3. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 54-25 101 Street Pre-K center
    700 feet
Show all 4
  1. I.S. 061 Leonardo Da Vinci School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Simeone Park
    430 feet
  2. Sparrow's Nest Community Garden
    470 feet
  3. Corona Peachtree Community Garden
    1,120 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Lefrak City Library
    1,090 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Apostle Church House of worship
    350 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    1,210 feet
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 55th Avenue, 99th Street or Lewis Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.