Alderton Street & Cromwell Crescent

Alderton Street and Cromwell Crescent (south-east) meet at a three-way junction in Rego Park, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The Painter's Playground is 320 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Woodhaven Blvd/66 Av, is 0.4 miles away for the Q11, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1963, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Map

Layers
Alderton Street & Cromwell Crescent Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Woodhaven Blvd/66 Av, 0.4 miles away, for the Q11.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodhaven Blvd/66 Av Q11
    0.4 miles
    Q11

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 97th Street, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 64-01 Woodhaven Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 85-01 68th Road Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11374
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
30
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rego Park
Elevation
87 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2018 and March 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Alderton Street

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Alderton Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Baby Steps Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    640 feet
  2. P.S. 174 William Sidney Mount School
    780 feet
  3. BSDC Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    900 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Painter's Playground
    320 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Vitelio's Market Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles

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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

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