Roosevelt Avenue & 86th Street

Roosevelt Avenue and 86th Street meet at a three-way junction in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Dunningham Triangle is 1,270 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about four minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 80 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
1,080 feet · 4 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
800 feet
83 St/Roosevelt Av · Q29
Within a walk
9 places
3 trade or language schools, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & 86th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 1,080 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    1,080 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    1,090 feet
    7
  2. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.5 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 83 St/Roosevelt Av, 800 feet away, for the Q29.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 87 St & Roosevelt Ave 23 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 1 mile by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2018
  • Turn calming, April 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, December 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 3
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
63 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 3,000 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 1951.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

Seventeen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Sterling' silver linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 22 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2018 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Roosevelt Avenue (south side).

East side of 86th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 86th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 403810, 467587 and 467968.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 63 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Anglo-American Garden Home and neo-Romanesque, and mostly built between 1919 and 1924.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. Q222 - Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School Pre-K
    1,050 feet
  2. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,100 feet
  3. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    1,120 feet
Show all 5
  1. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,170 feet
  2. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    740 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    960 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    1,310 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    1,180 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 80 places to eat and 30 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 86th 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, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.