Roosevelt Avenue & Baxter Avenue

Roosevelt Avenue and Baxter Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Jackson Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Corn Exchange Bank / Chemical Bank stands 430 feet away. The nearest subway, 82 St-Jackson Hts, is about two minutes on foot, and five subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them trade or language schools, and 114 places to eat.

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

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & Baxter Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 82 St-Jackson Hts, 430 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 5 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    430 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
    0.3 miles
    7
  2. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 83 St/Roosevelt Av, 140 feet away, for the Q29.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 113 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
    190 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 0.9 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
    0.4 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 seven crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
67 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,300 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 1941.

Since 2014 at least 12 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2021 and May 2024, 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).

West side of Baxter Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 466295.

Landmarks and historic districts

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
    430 feet
  2. English Gables Designated landmark
    690 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Penaranda Inst of Dental Lab Tech Trade or language school
    460 feet
  2. NY Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    510 feet
  3. Zoni Lang Ctr Trade or language school
    590 feet
Show all 4
  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,110 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    80 feet
  2. Dunningham Triangle
    600 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    700 feet
  2. Bank of America Bank branch
    730 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    520 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 114 places to eat and 33 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Baxter Avenue 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.