Rockaway Boulevard & Eldert Lane

Rockaway Boulevard and Eldert Lane meet at a three-way junction in Woodhaven, Queens. The corner is also named American Legion Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Legion Triangle is 30 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 St-Elderts Ln, is about eight minutes on foot, for the J and Z. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 St-Elderts Ln
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · J, Z
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
Rockaway Blvd/75 St · Q7
Within a walk
10 places
7 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Rockaway Boulevard & Eldert Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 St-Elderts Ln, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 75 St-Elderts Ln J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. J …
  2. Z …

Also within a walk

  1. Crescent St J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Five Points of Observation” (1990) by Kathleen McCarthy at the 75 St-Elderts Ln station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Blvd/75 St, 320 feet away, for the Q7.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Blvd/75 St Q7
    320 feet
    Q7

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q7 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Cypress Hills Street & Jackie Robinson Parkway, 1.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 81-02 Atlantic Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 570 Jamaica Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11421
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
32 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
75 and 102 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Woodhaven
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named American Legion Square, a co-naming enacted on March 19, 2023 (Local Law 44 of 2023).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 1901 and 1920.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Chinese crabapple.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on American Legion Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in February 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Eldert Lane

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Highland Park Community School
    1,050 feet
  2. I.S. 171 Abraham Lincoln School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Legion Triangle
    30 feet

Houses of worship

  1. East New York Baptist Church House of worship
    540 feet
  2. Universal Church House of worship
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Eldert Lane or Rockaway Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.