Roosevelt Avenue & Britton Avenue

Roosevelt Avenue and Britton 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. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about two minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 52 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
1,020 feet
Hampton St/Britton Av · Q29
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & Britton Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    590 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
    0.3 miles
    7
  2. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Britton Av, 1,020 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Britton Av Q29
    1,020 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Britton Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue.

  • 78 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 6 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway westbound at 37th Road & Brooklyn Queens Expressway Service Road, 1.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43-21 Junction Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 74-15 Northern Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2015
  • Turn calming, April 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11372
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
21
Police precinct
110 and 115 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jackson Heights
Elevation
61 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 2,800 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 1951.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the maidenhair tree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2024 and May 2025, 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 Britton Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Britton Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 406049, 406882 and 468905.

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 34 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded mostly as Anglo-American Garden Home, and mostly built between 1922 and 1924.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    940 feet
  2. P.S. Q222 - Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School Pre-K
    1,130 feet
  3. Little Friends School Elmhurst Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Manuel De Dios Unanue Triangle
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    750 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    820 feet
  3. Trade Fair Supermarket
    1,100 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 52 places to eat and 25 food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

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