Eliot Avenue & Wetherole Street

Eliot Avenue and Wetherole Street meet at a four-way crossing in Rego Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Jewish Institute of Queens is 500 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about five minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them religious buildings. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1940, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Woodhaven Blvd
1,260 feet · 5 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
520 feet
Woodhaven Blvd/Wetherole St · Q11, Q14, Q29
Within a walk
7 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Eliot Avenue & Wetherole Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Woodhaven Blvd, 1,260 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Woodhaven Blvd M, R
    1,260 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. 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 Woodhaven Blvd/Wetherole St, 520 feet away, for the Q11, Q14 and Q29.

  • 20 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Woodhaven Blvd/Wetherole St Q11, Q14, Q29
    520 feet
    Q11 Q14 Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. Q14 …
  3. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Woodhaven Blvd & Hoffman Dr 30 docks in all
    1,280 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 1,030 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 60-50 Woodhaven Boulevard Gas station
    910 feet
  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 three crashes at this corner, the median for a Queens corner.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 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
32 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and September 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eliot Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Eliot Avenue

  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 2 HOUR PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Eliot Avenue

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

North side of Wetherole Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Wetherole Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Jewish Institute of Queens School
    500 feet
  2. Resurrection Ascension Catholic School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoffman Park
    1,120 feet
  2. Hoffman Park Playground
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Resurrection Ascension Church House of worship
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rego Park Post Office
    810 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.5 miles

Shopping centers

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two 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 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eliot Avenue or Wetherole 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.