9th Avenue & College Place

The four-way crossing of 9th Avenue and College Place is in College Point, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Poppenhusen Library is 1,300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 9 Av/College Pl, is 30 feet away for the Q25, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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9th Avenue & College Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 9 Av/College Pl, 30 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 9 Av/College Pl Q25
    30 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, 1.4 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
    2.5 miles

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

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
47 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the silver maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2024 and November 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 9th Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 9th Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Poppenhusen Triangle.

  1. Conrad Poppenhusen Memorial Bust by Henry Baerer, 1884
    640 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. The Little Learning Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Poppenhusen Park
    600 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Poppenhusen Library
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 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 Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.