Liberty Avenue & 131st Street

Liberty Avenue and 131st Street meet at a four-way crossing in South Ozone Park, Queens. The corner is also named Trinidad and Tobago Street by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The nearest bus stop, Liberty Av/132 St, is 260 feet away for the Q112, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

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Liberty Avenue & 131st Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/132 St, 260 feet away, for the Q112.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av/132 St Q112
    260 feet
    Q112

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q112 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 137-17 Liberty Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 150-07 Archer Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11419
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
28 and 29 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Ozone Park
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Trinidad and Tobago Street, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American elm.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Trinidad and Tobago Street.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 17 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and July 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 131st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

North side of Liberty Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 420390 and 425136.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Playmates Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    60 feet
  2. TLC Spirit Pre-K
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Apna Bazar Farmers Market Supermarket
    810 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,260 feet
  2. Family Dollar Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and 11 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

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