Grand Avenue & 55th Drive

Grand Avenue and 55th Drive meet at a four-way crossing in Maspeth, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Whitefish Triangle is 560 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Grand Av/66 St, is 580 feet away for the Q58, Q59 and Q98, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them parks, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
580 feet
Grand Av/66 St · Q58, Q59, Q98
Within a walk
16 places
6 parks, 3 playgrounds and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Avenue & 55th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Av/66 St, 580 feet away, for the Q58, Q59 and Q98.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Av/66 St Q58, Q59, Q98
    580 feet
    Q58 Q59 Q98

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q58 …
  2. Q59 …
  3. Q98 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 30 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Grand Ave & Remsen Pl 21 docks in all
    1,030 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Queens Midtown Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 66-15 Borden Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 56-18 69th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    680 feet
  3. 57-77 Rust Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 1997

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11378
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Maspeth
Elevation
78 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

Meters on the blocks meeting at this corner are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Grand Avenue (north side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Grand Avenue (south side).

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 465870 and 466586.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Ateres Pesha Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    250 feet
  2. Metro Therapy - Maspeth School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Frontera Park
    230 feet
  2. Frontera Park Playground
    390 feet
  3. Whitefish Triangle
    560 feet
Show all 9
  1. Whitefish Triangle Playground
    600 feet
  2. Peter Chahales Park
    620 feet
  3. Technical Sergeant Thomas J. Davey Triangle
    1,190 feet
  4. Sitting Area 127 CXXVII Park
    1,220 feet
  5. Hull Triangle
    1,280 feet
  6. Hull Triangle Playground
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Maspeth Library
    1,290 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Maspeth Post Office
    1,110 feet
  2. Older adult center at 69-61 Grand Avenue Older adult center
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. Squad 288 Fire station
    780 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    630 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    710 feet
  3. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    500 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and 14 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 21 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 55th Drive or Grand Avenue.

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