Queens Boulevard & Woodhaven Boulevard

Queens Boulevard and Woodhaven Boulevard meet at a five-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 104 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, eight red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Hoffman Park is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Woodhaven Blvd, is about a minute on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, two of them parks, and 51 places to eat. About 160 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 2017, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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Queens Boulevard & Woodhaven Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is Woodhaven Blvd, 180 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Woodhaven Blvd M, R
    180 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Grand Av-Newtown M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R
  2. 63 Dr-Rego Park M, R
    0.5 miles
    M R

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “In Memory of the Lost Batallion” (1996) by Pablo Tauler at the Woodhaven Blvd station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Woodhaven Blvd, 190 feet away, for the Q59, Q60 and Q98.

  • 21 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Woodhaven Blvd Q59, Q60, Q98
    190 feet
    Q59 Q60 Q98

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q59 …
  2. Q60 …
  3. Q98 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Woodhaven Blvd & Hoffman Dr 30 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Queens Boulevard, 470 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 60-50 Woodhaven Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and three fast chargers
    760 feet

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 104 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 57 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 4 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2012
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2022

In 2025, 8 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 198th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 278 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
30
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst

The streets

  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 160 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 in 2017.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2019 and July 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 59th Avenue

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 59th Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Queens Boulevard

  • No standing 16 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-4PM SATURDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-10PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 13 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM
  • No stopping 3 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Woodhaven Boulevard

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 403998.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 post office
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Geneis Medical Training Trade or language school
    400 feet
  2. Queens Pointe Talent Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    600 feet
  3. Jewish Institute of Queens School
    1,000 feet
Show all 4
  1. Cathedral Prep School-Seminary School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hoffman Park
    260 feet
  2. Hoffman Park Playground
    260 feet
  3. Newtown Playground
    1,170 feet
Show all 4
  1. Horsebrook Island Park
    1,200 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Rego Park Post Office
    760 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,070 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    1,250 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Lidl Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. ALDI Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles
  2. Costco Store
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Queens Center Shopping center
    170 feet
  2. Queens Place Shopping center
    1,210 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 51 places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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