Pitkin Avenue & Whitelaw Street

Pitkin Avenue and Whitelaw Street meet at a three-way junction in Ozone Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Rocket Playground is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cross Bay Blvd/Pitkin Av, is 770 feet away for the Q11, Q41, BM5 and QM15, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and four places to eat.

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Pitkin Avenue & Whitelaw Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Bay Blvd/Pitkin Av, 770 feet away, for the Q11, Q41, BM5 and QM15.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Bay Blvd/Pitkin Av Q11, Q41, BM5, QM15
    770 feet
    Q11 Q41 BM5 QM15

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q11 …
  2. Q41 …
  3. BM5 …
  4. QM15 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway eastbound at Cross Bay Boulevard, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 135-45 Cross Bay Boulevard Gas station
    1,050 feet
  2. 89-35 155th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11417
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
32
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Ozone Park
Elevation
28 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 700 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 1930 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 64 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Sunrise Yards Maintenance Facility.

  1. Cross-Section Installation by Samm Kunce, 2009
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 cemetery
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 202 Robert H. Goddard School
    940 feet
  2. Robert H. Goddard High School of Communication Arts and Technology School
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Tudor Park
    870 feet
  2. Rocket Playground
    940 feet
  3. Southside Burial Ground Cemetery
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    1,020 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 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, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.