Ithaca Street & Baxter Avenue

Ithaca Street and Baxter Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Elmhurst, Queens. The corner is also named Jabez E. Dunningham Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 20 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Dunningham Triangle is 50 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 79 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
20 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
440 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Hampton St/Baxter Av · Q29
Within a walk
11 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ithaca Street & Baxter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 440 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    440 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
    0.3 miles
    M R
  2. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    7 E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Baxter Av, 340 feet away, for the Q29.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ithaca Street.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    50 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
    0.7 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
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 20 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 8 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, December 2018
  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 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
68 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Jabez E. Dunningham Square, a co-naming enacted on October 29, 1945 (Local Law 45 of 1945).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,900 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 1932 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Jabez E. Dunningham Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and May 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

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

West side of Baxter Avenue

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

North side of Ithaca Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Ithaca Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 409465, 466995 and 467664.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 27 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Neoclassical, and mostly built between 1911 and 1927.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank Designated landmark
    520 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 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 hospital
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    360 feet
  2. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    410 feet
  3. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    630 feet
Show all 5
  1. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
  2. Star America Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunningham Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    420 feet
  3. Frank D. O'Connor Playground
    1,300 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 46 Ambulance station
    970 feet
  2. Elmhurst Hospital Center Hospital
    990 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    850 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    260 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 79 places to eat and 21 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

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