Rockaway Boulevard & 120th Street

Rockaway Boulevard and 120th Street meet at a four-way crossing in South Ozone Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Hawtree Creek Middle School is 600 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Blvd/Lefferts Blvd, is 290 feet away for the Q7, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and 11 places to eat.

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Rockaway Boulevard & 120th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Blvd/Lefferts Blvd, 290 feet away, for the Q7.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Blvd/Lefferts Blvd Q7
    290 feet
    Q7

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 37 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at North Conduit Avenue & Belt Parkway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 118-05 115th Avenue Gas station
    740 feet
  2. 110-00 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 44 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 130th Place Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11420
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
28
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Ozone Park
Elevation
29 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 1935.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2024 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Rockaway Boulevard

  • Metered parking 5 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-4PM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY 10AM-7PM ALL DAYS

South side of Rockaway Boulevard

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 416517 and 421959.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Catholic War Veterans Square.

  1. Catholic War Veterans Memorial Cross, 1938
    540 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Epic High School - South School
    600 feet
  2. Hawtree Creek Middle School
    600 feet
  3. J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom School
    600 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Catholic War Veterans Square
    580 feet
  2. David J O'Connell Square
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,190 feet
  2. Farm Boy Country Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    390 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and nine food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 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.