Eliot Avenue & Booth Street

Eliot Avenue and Booth Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rego Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rego Park Post Office is 550 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about four minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places and five places to eat. About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1948, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
1,000 feet · 4 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
610 feet
Queens Blvd/Eliot Av · Q60
Within a walk
6 places
1 park, 1 playground and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eliot Avenue & Booth Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Woodhaven Blvd, 1,000 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Woodhaven Blvd M, R
    1,000 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. 63 Dr-Rego Park M, R
    0.5 miles
    M R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “In Memory of the Lost Batallion” (1996) by Pablo Tauler at the Woodhaven Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Eliot Av, 610 feet away, for the Q60.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Eliot Av Q60 · Shelter
    610 feet
    Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 62 Ave & Queens Blvd 20 docks in all
    1,100 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 770 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 60-50 Woodhaven Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and three fast chargers
    0.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

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
29 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,000 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1925 and 1948.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 27 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Booth Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Booth Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Eliot Avenue

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

West side of Eliot Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Institute of Queens School
    610 feet
  2. Geneis Medical Training Trade or language school
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoffman Park
    1,190 feet
  2. Hoffman Park Playground
    1,190 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rego Park Post Office
    550 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. ALDI Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles
  2. Rego Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and one food store.

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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Booth Street or Eliot Avenue.

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, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.