Elmhurst Avenue & Hampton Street

Elmhurst Avenue and Hampton Street meet at a four-way crossing in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 15 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 620 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about five minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
15 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Hampton St/Whitney Ave · Q29
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Elmhurst Avenue & Hampton Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Whitney Ave, 410 feet away, for the Q29.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Elmhurst Avenue.

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Elmhurst Ave & Forley St 21 docks in all
    490 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. 94-01 Corona Avenue Gas station
    0.5 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
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 15 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2022

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
54 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,400 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 1961.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2024 and June 2026, 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 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

North side of Hampton Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Hampton Street

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    620 feet
  2. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  3. St Bartholomew Catholic Academy School
    1,130 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 44-15 Judge Street Pre-K center
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Veterans Grove Playground
    1,050 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Elmhurst Avenue or Hampton Street.

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