Roosevelt Avenue & Woodside Avenue

Roosevelt Avenue and Woodside Avenue meet at a six-way junction in Woodside, Queens. The corner is also named Frank Carvill Place by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Doughboy Park is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, 61 St-Woodside, is about two minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 26 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and 44 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
61 St-Woodside
650 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
200 feet
Roosevelt Av/58 St · Q32
Within a walk
26 places
12 religious buildings, 4 schools and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Roosevelt Avenue & Woodside Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 61 St-Woodside, 650 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. 61 St-Woodside 7
    650 feet
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. 52 St 7
    0.3 miles
    7
  2. 69 St 7
    0.5 miles
    7

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Commuting/Community” (1986) by John Cavanagh and “Woodside Continuum” (1999) by Dimitri Gerakaris at the 61 St-Woodside station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Roosevelt Av/58 St, 200 feet away, for the Q32.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Roosevelt Av/58 St Q32
    200 feet
    Q32

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Woodside Avenue.

  • 54 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Woodside Ave & Roosevelt Ave 19 docks in all
    150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 65th Place & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 60-11 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 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2015
  • Safety Improvement Project, 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2021

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
56 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Frank Carvill Place, a co-naming enacted on May 9, 2005 (Local Law 43 of 2005).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1927 and 1963.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Frank Carvill Place.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2016 and September 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Woodside Avenue (north side), and as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Woodside Avenue (south side).

East side of 59th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9AM-10:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 59th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9AM-10:30AM

North side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-9AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Roosevelt Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 411626, 414660, 414661, 427312, 427510 and 428336.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Woodside Memorial Park.

  1. Woodside Memorial Stele, 1971
    220 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Woodside Friends Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. St Sebastian Catholic Academy School
    390 feet
  3. Expanding Horizons Institute Trade or language school
    530 feet
Show all 7
  1. Adventureland Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    810 feet
  2. Greater New York Academy School
    940 feet
  3. The Woodside Community School
    1,070 feet
  4. P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan School
    1,210 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Sohncke Square
    170 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    800 feet
  3. Steinmann Triangle
    910 feet
Show all 4
  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    1,310 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodside Doughboy Statue Monument or memorial
    940 feet
  2. Woodside Library
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Pauls Episcopal Church Woodside House of worship
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Woodside Post Office
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    320 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    560 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    240 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    410 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 44 places to eat and 18 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 59th Street, Roosevelt Avenue or Woodside 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 Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.