Liberty Avenue & Brinkerhoff Avenue

Liberty Avenue and Brinkerhoff Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in St. Albans, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 118 Lorraine Hansberry is 840 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Brinkerhoff Av/189 St, is 140 feet away for the Q83 and QM64, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, five of them religious buildings, and six places to eat.

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Liberty Avenue & Brinkerhoff Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Brinkerhoff Av/189 St, 140 feet away, for the Q83 and QM64.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q83 …
  2. QM64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet

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
    0.5 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.4 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11412
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
27
Police precinct
103 and 113 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
St. Albans
Elevation
36 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Brinkerhoff Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Brinkerhoff Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Liberty Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 118 Lorraine Hansberry School
    840 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and six 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 22 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, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.