Fresh Meadow Lane & Effington Avenue

Fresh Meadow Lane and Effington Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Auburndale, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Kissena Corridor Park is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utopia Pkwy/48 Av, is 940 feet away for the Q31, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them parks. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
940 feet
Utopia Pkwy/48 Av · Q31
Within a walk
3 places
2 parks and 1 religious building, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Fresh Meadow Lane & Effington Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utopia Pkwy/48 Av, 940 feet away, for the Q31.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utopia Pkwy/48 Av Q31
    940 feet
    Q31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q31 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 182nd Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 172-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.4 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11358
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109 and 111 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Auburndale
Elevation
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

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

East side of Fresh Meadow Lane

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Fresh Meadow Lane

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    990 feet
  2. Kissena Park
    1,070 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Effington Avenue or Fresh Meadow Lane.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.