Roosevelt Avenue & 83rd Street

Roosevelt Avenue and 83rd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. (former) Queensboro Corporation Headquarters stands 770 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about a minute on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them trade or language schools, and 115 places to eat.

Safety record
13 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
82 St-Jackson Hts
310 feet · 1 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
83 St/Roosevelt Av · Q29
Within a walk
9 places
4 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & 83rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 310 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 83 St/Roosevelt Av, 40 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 83 St/Roosevelt Av Q29
    40 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 84 St & Roosevelt Ave 30 docks in all
    310 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
    0.6 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
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 13 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, July 2024
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
21 and 25 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
110 and 115 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
66 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 2,700 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 1925 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and March 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 83rd Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Taxi stand 2 signs TAXI STAND

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 406877, 409756, 466294 and 468072.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 77 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
    310 feet
  2. English Gables Designated landmark
    620 feet
  3. (former) Queensboro Corporation Headquarters Designated landmark
    770 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 schools
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    390 feet
  2. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    420 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    470 feet
Show all 6
  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,230 feet
  2. Renaissance Charter School
    1,260 feet
  3. Udi Career Training Institute Trade or language school
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    50 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    570 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    580 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    620 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    880 feet

Supermarkets

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

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    480 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 115 places to eat and 32 food stores.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 83rd Street or Roosevelt Avenue.

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