Metropolitan Avenue & 60th Street

Metropolitan Avenue and 60th Street meet at a three-way junction in Maspeth, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Engine 291/Ladder 140 firehouse is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Forest Av, is 70 feet away for the Q14, Q39 and Q54, and 13 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
1.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Metropolitan Av/Forest Av · Q14, Q39, Q54
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & 60th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Forest Av, 70 feet away, for the Q14, Q39 and Q54.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Forest Av Q14, Q39, Q54
    70 feet
    Q14 Q39 Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q14 …
  2. Q39 …
  3. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 2 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Eliot Ave & 60 Ln 22 docks in all
    850 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Borden Avenue & 60th Street, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-04 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    150 feet
  2. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, one fast charger
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11385
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Maspeth
Elevation
101 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1955.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 33 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 60th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 60th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM 4PM-7PM

South side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 071 Forest School
    810 feet
  2. A.C.E. Academy for Scholars at the Geraldine Ferraro Campus School
    880 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church House of worship
    1,180 feet
  2. Trinity St Andrews Lutheran Church House of worship
    1,260 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 291/Ladder 140 Fire station
    440 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    180 feet
  2. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and eight 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 60th Street or Metropolitan Avenue.

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