Hampton Street & Baxter Avenue

Hampton Street and Baxter Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven 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 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 104 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
570 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Hampton St/Baxter Av · Q29
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hampton Street & Baxter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 570 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    570 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. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Baxter Av, 120 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Baxter Av Q29
    120 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 94 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 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
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,500 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 1926 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Japanese zelkova and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2024 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Baxter Avenue (west side).

East side of Baxter Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Hampton Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hampton Street

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 463863 and 466995.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 47 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Romanesque, and mostly built between 1911 and 1926.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank Designated landmark
    410 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 hospital
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    160 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    650 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    670 feet
Show all 5
  1. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet
  2. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,140 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    160 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    310 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 46 Ambulance station
    1,230 feet
  2. Elmhurst Hospital Center Hospital
    1,240 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    1,240 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    840 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    880 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 104 places to eat and 28 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baxter Avenue or Hampton 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, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.