Rockaway Boulevard & Sutphin Boulevard

Rockaway Boulevard and Sutphin Boulevard meet at a four-way crossing in Baisley Park, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Rockaway Blvd Playground is 230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Blvd/Baisley Blvd, is 260 feet away for the Q6, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them playgrounds, and four places to eat. About 70 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Rockaway Boulevard & Sutphin Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Blvd/Baisley Blvd, 260 feet away, for the Q6.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Blvd/Baisley Blvd Q6
    260 feet
    Q6

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at North Conduit Avenue & Belt Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 149-20 Rockaway Boulevard Gas station
    660 feet
  2. 135-30 140th Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11434
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
28
Police precinct
113
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Baisley Park

The streets

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

Homes

About 70 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 209 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the mulberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 36 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Rockaway Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

North side of Rockaway Boulevard

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Sutphin Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

West side of Sutphin Boulevard

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated one lamppost.

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Baisley Pond Park.

  1. Baisley Pond Park Memorial Stele by James F. Walsh, 1921
    760 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 045 Clarence Witherspoon School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rockaway Blvd Playground
    230 feet
  2. Baisley Pond Park
    280 feet
  3. Sutphin Playground
    1,010 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Western Beef Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

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