Hoover Avenue & Lander Street

Hoover Avenue and Lander Street meet at a three-way junction in Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Young Israel of Briarwood is 1,190 feet away. The nearest subway, Briarwood, is about eight minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites. About 1,500 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1955 and 1958, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
3 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Briarwood
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Main St/Coolidge Av · Q20
Within a walk
4 places
2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 religious buildings, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hoover Avenue & Lander Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Briarwood, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Coolidge Av, 410 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 18 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Coolidge Av Q20
    410 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hoover Avenue.

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 146-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Hills-Briarwood
Elevation
127 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,500 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 1955 and 1958.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2017 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hoover Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hoover Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Lander Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Lander Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Main Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of Main Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom, Sholom Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    540 feet
  2. Ira's Parkway Daycare & Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Briarwood House of worship
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

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 Hoover Avenue or Lander Street.

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