Skillman Avenue & 54th Street

Skillman Avenue and 54th Street meet at a three-way junction in Woodside, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 504 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Woodside Library is 210 feet away, and Sohncke Square is 1,130 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about two minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, five of them religious buildings, and 35 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Skillman Avenue.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
52 St
590 feet · 2 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
480 feet
Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av · Q32
Within a walk
17 places
5 religious buildings, 4 parks and 7 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Skillman Avenue & 54th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 52 St, 590 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  1. 52 St 7
    590 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
    0.4 miles
    7
  2. 46 St-Bliss St 7
    0.5 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av, 480 feet away, for the Q32.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Skillman Avenue.

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Skillman Ave & 54 St 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 49-15 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 43-10 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 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 October 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2019
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 504 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,178th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 206 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
111 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1963.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the green ash and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2018 and August 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 54th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 54th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Skillman Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of Skillman Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11AM-12:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 4 parks
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 library
  • 4 other places

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan School
    390 feet
  2. Kids Rainbowland Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
  3. Bean and Sprout Kids Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Steinmann Triangle
    300 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    440 feet
  3. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    650 feet
Show all 5
  1. John Vincent Daniels Jr. Square
    1,040 feet
  2. Sohncke Square
    1,130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodside Library
    210 feet
  2. Woodside Doughboy Statue Monument or memorial
    540 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    970 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 325/Ladder 163 Fire station
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    1,040 feet
  2. H Mart Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 35 places to eat and 12 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 54th Street or Skillman Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.