Skillman Avenue & 56th Street

Skillman Avenue and 56th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Woodside, Queens. The corner is also named Richard Trupkin Plaza by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Doughboy Park is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, 52 St, is about three minutes on foot, for the 7. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and 40 places to eat. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Skillman Avenue.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
52 St
830 feet · 3 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Roosevelt Av/Skillman Av · Q32
Within a walk
23 places
7 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Skillman Avenue & 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 52 St, 830 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  1. 52 St 7
    830 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, 90 feet away, for the Q32.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q32 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Skillman Avenue.

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 7 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Skillman Ave & 54 St 19 docks in all
    380 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

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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

This corner is also named Richard Trupkin Plaza, a co-naming enacted on September 30, 1997 (Local Law 74 of 1997).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 20 to 25 mph
  • Two of the streets are 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 1927 and 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Richard Trupkin Plaza.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2017 and August 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 56th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Skillman Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 011 Kathryn Phelan School
    370 feet
  2. Kids Rainbowland Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
  3. St Sebastian Catholic Academy School
    790 feet
Show all 8
  1. Greater New York Academy School
    990 feet
  2. Adventureland Child Care Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  3. Razi School
    1,140 feet
  4. Woodside Friends Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  5. Bean and Sprout Kids Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Steinmann Triangle
    90 feet
  2. Doughboy Park
    260 feet
  3. Sohncke Square
    610 feet
Show all 5
  1. Lawrence Virgilio Playground
    920 feet
  2. John Vincent Daniels Jr. Square
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Woodside Library
    390 feet
  2. Woodside Doughboy Statue Monument or memorial
    390 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Windmuller Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    1,250 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,160 feet

Supermarkets

  1. H Mart Supermarket
    1,080 feet
  2. Fresh N Save Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,260 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 40 places to eat and 16 food stores.

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 56th Street or Skillman Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.