Whitney Avenue & Gleane Street

Whitney Avenue and Gleane Street meet at a four-way crossing in Elmhurst, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Bartholomew Catholic Academy is 870 feet away. The nearest subway, 90 St-Elmhurst Av, is about six minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
90 St-Elmhurst Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · 7
Nearest bus stop
350 feet
Hampton St/Whitney Ave · Q29
Within a walk
12 places
7 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Whitney Avenue & Gleane Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 90 St-Elmhurst Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 90 St-Elmhurst Av 7
    0.3 miles
    7

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Elmhurst Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R
  2. 82 St-Jackson Hts 7
    0.5 miles
    7

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hampton St/Whitney Ave, 350 feet away, for the Q29.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hampton St/Whitney Ave Q29
    350 feet
    Q29

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q29 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Elmhurst Ave & Forley St 21 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Queens Boulevard, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 94-01 Corona Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 81-09 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2023.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11373
Community board
Queens Community Board 4
City Council district
25
Police precinct
110
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Elmhurst
Elevation
53 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 3,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1962.

Since 2014 at least 10 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2024 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Gleane Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Gleane Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Whitney Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Whitney Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. St Bartholomew Catholic Academy School
    870 feet
  2. Mosaic Pre-K Center at 44-15 Judge Street Pre-K center
    870 feet
  3. P.S. 89q: the Jose Peralta School of Dreamers School
    1,120 feet
Show all 4
  1. Children's Big Apple Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Veterans Grove Playground
    810 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  3. SF Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Gleane Street or Whitney Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, 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.