Elmhurst Avenue & Forley Street

Elmhurst Avenue and Forley Street meet at a four-way crossing in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
7 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
860 feet · 3 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
920 feet
Hampton St/Whitney Ave · Q29
Within a walk
5 places
3 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Elmhurst Avenue & Forley Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    860 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
    0.4 miles
    M R
  2. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Whitney Ave, 920 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Whitney Ave Q29
    920 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Elmhurst Avenue and Forley Street.

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Elmhurst Ave & Forley St 21 docks in all
    40 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-21 Junction Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
56 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,300 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 1937 and 1959.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2023 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Elmhurst Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Elmhurst Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Forley Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Forley Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    850 feet
  2. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and 18 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Elmhurst Avenue or Forley Street.

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