Baxter Avenue & Ketcham Street

Baxter Avenue and Ketcham Street meet at a three-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 22 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Frank D. O'Connor Playground is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 72 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
22 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
880 feet · 3 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
82 St/Roosevelt Av · Q29
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Baxter Avenue & Ketcham Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 880 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    880 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. Elmhurst Av M, R
    1,280 feet
    M R
  2. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    7 E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 82 St/Roosevelt Av, 830 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St/Roosevelt Av Q29
    830 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 42 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 22 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
25
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,000 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 1930 and 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 16 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Baxter Avenue (west side).

East side of Baxter Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Ketcham Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Ketcham Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 406119 and 465220.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Star America Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    560 feet
  2. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    820 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    840 feet
Show all 4
  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunningham Triangle
    470 feet
  2. Frank D. O'Connor Playground
    800 feet
  3. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    920 feet
Show all 4
  1. Moore Homestead Playground
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 46 Ambulance station
    960 feet
  2. Elmhurst Hospital Center Hospital
    970 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    480 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    710 feet
  2. Citibank Bank branch
    1,120 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    690 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 72 places to eat and 23 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baxter Avenue or Ketcham Street.

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