Murdock Avenue & 178th Place
Murdock Avenue and 178th Place meet at a four-way crossing in St. Albans, Queens. The corner is also named David and Renee Bluford Way by local law. It lies inside the Addisleigh Park Historic District. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Murdock Plaza is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Linden Blvd/176 St, is 1,230 feet away for the Q4, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/176 St, 1,230 feet away, for the Q4.
- 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Linden Blvd/176 St Q41,230 feetQ4
Next buses at this stop
- Q4 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound, 2 miles by car along the streets.
- 171-01 Linden Boulevard Gas station0.5 miles
- 92-23 168th Street Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers1.6 miles
- 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars1.7 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2018.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11434
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 12
- City Council district
- 27
- Police precinct
- 113
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- St. Albans
- Elevation
- 32 feet above sea level
This corner is also named David and Renee Bluford Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 300 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 59 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the swamp white oak.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on David and Renee Bluford Way.
Landmarks and historic districts
The corner stands in the Addisleigh Park Historic District.
Within 820 feet, 361 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1924 and 1937.
Places within a walk
How places are listedOne public place is within a five-minute walk.
- 1 pedestrian plaza
Plazas and public spaces
- Murdock Plaza Pedestrian plaza570 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket0.4 miles
Pharmacies
- CVS Pharmacy0.5 miles
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 signal or safety change
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
Nearby corners
The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:
- Murdock Avenue & 178th Street 260 feet
- Murdock Avenue & 179th Street 260 feet
- Murdock Avenue & 180th Street 520 feet
- Murdock Avenue & 177th Street 520 feet
- 112th Avenue & 178th Place 660 feet
- 114th Road & 178th Place 710 feet
- Murdock Avenue & 176th Street 780 feet
- 112th Avenue & 178th Street 920 feet
See every intersection along 178th Place or Murdock Avenue.