Roosevelt Avenue & 82nd Street

Roosevelt Avenue and 82nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Jackson Heights, Queens. The corner lies on the edge of the Jackson Heights Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, 57 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank stands 70 feet away, and Jackson Developmental Center Jackson is 1,290 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about a minute on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them trade or language schools, and 109 places to eat.

Safety record
20 hurt
57 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
60 feet · 1 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Roosevelt Av/82 St · Q33
Within a walk
10 places
4 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & 82nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 60 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    60 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

Outbound
1 line
  1. 7 …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. 7 …

Also within a walk

  1. Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av/74 St-Broadway 7, E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    7 E F M R
  2. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.4 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Roosevelt Av/82 St, 40 feet away, for the Q33.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Roosevelt Av/82 St Q33 · Shelter
    40 feet
    Q33
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q33 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 82nd Street.

  • 120 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 7 of them on-street corrals
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Ithaca St & Baxter Ave 25 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-02 Roosevelt Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 57 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 20 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 6 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2017
  • Turn calming, May 2023

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
City Council district
25
Police precinct
110 and 115 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
65 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,200 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 between 1926 and 1958.

Since 2014 at least 6 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2024 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Roosevelt Avenue (north side).

East side of 82nd Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered, commercial vehicles only 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING COMMERCIAL VEHICLES ONLY 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUDNAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 8AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 82nd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 404599, 406877, 468071 and 468446.

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands at the edge of the Jackson Heights Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 74 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as neo-Romanesque, and mostly built between 1919 and 1926.

  1. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank Designated landmark
    70 feet
  2. English Gables Designated landmark
    520 feet
  3. (former) Queensboro Corporation Headquarters Designated landmark
    700 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    130 feet
  2. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    200 feet
  3. Renaissance Charter School
    1,000 feet
Show all 7
  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    230 feet
  2. Udi Career Training Institute Trade or language school
    1,010 feet
  3. BWY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet
  4. Jackson Developmental Center Jackson School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    310 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    490 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Jackson Heights Library
    1,160 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    320 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    350 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    610 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    330 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 109 places to eat and 30 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 82nd Street or Roosevelt Avenue.

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