Broadway & Britton Avenue

Broadway and Britton Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Elmhurst A Post Office is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Elmhurst Av, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 47 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Elmhurst Av
100 feet · 1 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
790 feet
Broadway/Whitney Av · Q53 SBS
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Broadway & Britton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Elmhurst Av, 100 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Elmhurst Av M, R
    100 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    0.4 miles
    7
  2. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.5 miles
    7 E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Broadway/Whitney Av, 790 feet away, for the Q53 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Broadway/Whitney Av Q53 SBS
    790 feet
    Q53 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q53 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Britton Avenue and Broadway.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 82 St & Broadway 30 docks in all
    90 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 68th Street & Queens Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 77-33 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

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.

  • 8 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, October 2016

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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,700 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 1939 and 1961.

Trees

NYC Parks records 92 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Broadway (south side).

East side of Britton Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Britton Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Broadway

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 5PM-7PM SATURDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-5PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 406958 and 467407.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Star America Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    750 feet
  2. B'Above Worldwide Institute Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,040 feet
  3. Campus Education Trade or language school
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,080 feet
  2. Renaissance Charter School 2 School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Moore Homestead Playground
    50 feet
  2. Frank D. O'Connor Playground
    1,090 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND) Listed historic place
    260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    630 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    940 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    740 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and 19 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Britton Avenue or Broadway.

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.