Northern Boulevard & 89th Street

Northern Boulevard and 89th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Jackson Heights, Queens. The corner is also named Dr. Sergio I. Rubio Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 23 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Playground Ninety is 270 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/89 St, is 70 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, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 39 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
23 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Northern Blvd/89 St · Q63, Q66
Within a walk
9 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Northern Boulevard & 89th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/89 St, 70 feet away, for the Q63 and Q66.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/89 St Q63, Q66
    70 feet
    Q63 Q66

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q63 …
  2. Q66 …

Live arrivals

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

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 34 Ave & 89 St 27 docks in all
    730 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at Brooklyn-Queens Expressway & Northern Boulevard, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 97-15 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers and one fast charger
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 23 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2014
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2019

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
73 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Dr. Sergio I. Rubio Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1957.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Dr. Sergio I. Rubio Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 12 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2025 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 89th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 89th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Northern Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-8:30AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Northern Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 469037.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 police station
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Children of America Educational Childcare Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  2. P.S. 148 Queens School
    750 feet
  3. Jackson Child Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
Show all 5
  1. P.S. 228 Early Childhood Magnet School of the Arts Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  2. Jackson Developmental Center E. Elmh Preschool
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Ninety Playground
    270 feet
  2. Northern Playground
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Tifereth Israel of Jackson Heights House of worship
    1,150 feet

Fire and police

  1. 115th Precinct Police station
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    60 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    730 feet
  2. Trade Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    60 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 39 places to eat and seven 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 89th Street or Northern Boulevard.

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