Northern Boulevard & 77th Street

Northern Boulevard and 77th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Jackson Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Garden School is 640 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/78 St, is 260 feet away for the Q63 and Q66, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 22 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Northern Blvd/78 St · Q63, Q66
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Northern Boulevard & 77th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/78 St, 260 feet away, for the Q63 and Q66.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/78 St Q63, Q66 · Shelter
    260 feet
    Q63 Q66
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q63 …
  2. Q66 …

Live arrivals

Northern Boulevard carries a bus lane, all day, every day.

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 3 of them on-street corrals
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 78 St & Northern Blvd 40 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 76-19 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    230 feet
  2. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers and one fast charger
    650 feet

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 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 April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 544 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,138th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 201 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
25
Police precinct
115
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1951.

Trees

NYC Parks records 49 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2018 and May 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 77th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 77th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Northern Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM

South side of Northern Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 field
  • 1 park
  • 1 pedestrian plaza
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Jhelc Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    150 feet
  2. Garden School
    640 feet
  3. I.S. 145 Joseph Pulitzer School
    1,060 feet
Show all 5
  1. Semillitas Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,090 feet
  2. Jackson Heights Early Learning Center Annex Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Travers Park
    290 feet
  2. Travers Park Playground
    340 feet
  3. Rory Staunton Field
    670 feet

Plazas and public spaces

  1. 78th Street Plaza Pedestrian plaza
    690 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Farm Country Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Jackson Heights Shopping Center Shopping center
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 77th Street or Northern Boulevard.

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