Ithaca Street & Pettit Avenue

Ithaca Street and Pettit Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four 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 960 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about three minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 59 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
860 feet · 3 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
730 feet
Hampton St/Britton Av · Q29
Within a walk
9 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ithaca Street & Pettit Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    860 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. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Britton Av, 730 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Britton Av Q29
    730 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Ithaca Street.

  • 49 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
    380 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 May 2026.

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
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,800 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 1930 and 1963.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 13 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Ithaca Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Pettit Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of Pettit Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  2. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    780 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    830 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    960 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Dunningham Triangle
    470 feet
  2. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    830 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Elmhurst A Post Office
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    1,240 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    680 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 59 places to eat and 18 food stores.

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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Ithaca Street or Pettit Avenue.

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