Waltham Street & Shore Avenue

Waltham Street and Shore Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in South Jamaica, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Pius V Church is 980 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lakewood Av/Liverpool St, is 540 feet away for the Q41, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
540 feet
Lakewood Av/Liverpool St · Q41
Within a walk
11 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Waltham Street & Shore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lakewood Av/Liverpool St, 540 feet away, for the Q41.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lakewood Av/Liverpool St Q41
    540 feet
    Q41

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q41 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 97-50 Sutphin Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 150-07 Archer Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 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.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11435
Community board
Queens Community Board 12
City Council district
28
Police precinct
103
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Jamaica
Elevation
33 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1915 and 1931.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 garden

Schools and child care

  1. Bright Start Early Learning Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
  2. Bright Kids Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Paradise Community Garden NY Garden
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Christ Apostolic Church Wosem House of worship
    660 feet
  2. St Pius V Church House of worship
    980 feet
  3. St Joseph Church South Jamaica House of worship
    1,220 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 17 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Shore Avenue or Waltham Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.