Liberty Avenue & 188th Street

Liberty Avenue and 188th Street meet at a three-way junction in St. Albans, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 118 Lorraine Hansberry is 1,030 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Brinkerhoff Av/189 St, is 330 feet away for the Q83 and QM64, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, three of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

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Liberty Avenue & 188th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brinkerhoff Av/189 St, 330 feet away, for the Q83 and QM64.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Brinkerhoff Av/189 St Q83, QM64
    330 feet
    Q83 QM64

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q83 …
  2. QM64 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at 188th Street, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 114-05 Farmers Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.3 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11412
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
27
Police precinct
103
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. Albans
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 500 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 1925 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 118 Lorraine Hansberry School
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    580 feet
  2. John's Farm Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 18 corners within a three-minute walk:

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