Roosevelt Avenue & Skillman Avenue

Roosevelt Avenue and Skillman Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Woodside, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan is 420 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 21 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 40 places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1928 and 1963, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
52 St
860 feet · 3 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av · Q32
Within a walk
21 places
7 religious buildings, 4 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & Skillman Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 52 St, 860 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 52 St 7
    860 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 61 St-Woodside 7
    0.3 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av, 130 feet away, for the Q32.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av Q32
    130 feet
    Q32

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Skillman Ave & 54 St 19 docks in all
    430 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 65th Place & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-15 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 57-02 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, two fast chargers
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2015

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11377
Community board
Queens Community Board 2
City Council district
26
Police precinct
108
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Woodside
Elevation
86 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 3 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in March 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Skillman Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 public places.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 4 schools
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 1 library
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan School
    420 feet
  2. St Sebastian Catholic Academy School
    740 feet
  3. Kids Rainbowland Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
Show all 7
  1. Greater New York Academy School
    930 feet
  2. Adventureland Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,030 feet
  3. Razi School
    1,160 feet
  4. Woodside Friends Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Steinmann Triangle
    120 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    310 feet
  3. Sohncke Square
    550 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    980 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodside Doughboy Statue Monument or memorial
    420 feet
  2. Woodside Library
    450 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,300 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    1,030 feet
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,200 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Roosevelt Avenue or Skillman 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.