Glendale, Queens Personal Injury Lawyer
Need a winning personal injury lawyer near Glendale?
For over 30 years, Michael D. Ribowsky has provided his clients with the results and the integrity they require. Our office is at 109-12 Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill — two neighbourhoods south of Glendale, straight down Woodhaven Boulevard.
Glendale has no subway. It lost its Long Island Rail Road station in 1998, and everything since has moved by bus or by car, which concentrates the neighbourhood’s traffic onto a handful of roads. Myrtle Avenue is the main business strip and carries the Q55 along its length; between the bus stops, the parked cars and the shopfront traffic, it produces more pedestrian claims than anywhere else in Glendale.
Woodhaven Boulevard runs the western edge with the Q52 and Q53 Select Bus Service, wide and fast enough that crossing it on foot is a real risk. Cooper Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue take the through traffic, including everything heading for The Shops at Atlas Park.
Our free case consultation will tell you what your claim is realistically worth. We work on contingency: no fee unless we win.
If your accident happened elsewhere in the borough, our Queens accident lawyers handle claims in every neighbourhood.
The claims we handle in Glendale
Most of what comes to us from Glendale falls into a handful of categories.
Car accidents on Myrtle, Cooper and Woodhaven Boulevard. Bus injuries — Glendale is bus-dependent, and a claim against the MTA carries a strict 90-day notice deadline. Slip and fall and premises claims along the Myrtle Avenue shops.
Cyclist, e-bike and e-scooter collisions, particularly around Forest Park. Hit and run, and crashes where the other driver carried no insurance.
Our office is at 109-12 Jamaica Avenue in Richmond Hill — two neighbourhoods south of Glendale, straight down Woodhaven Boulevard.
We handle personal injury claims across Glendale and the 11385 ZIP: car and bus collisions, slip and falls, cyclist and pedestrian injuries. No fee unless we win. Call 718-659-5333.
Where Glendale accidents happen
Glendale has no subway. It lost its Long Island Rail Road station in 1998, and everything since has moved by bus or by car — which concentrates the neighbourhood’s traffic onto a handful of roads.
Myrtle Avenue is the main business strip and carries the Q55 along its length. Between the bus stops, the parked cars and the shopfront traffic, it produces more pedestrian claims than anywhere else in Glendale.
Woodhaven Boulevard runs the western edge and carries the Q52 and Q53 Select Bus Service. It is wide and fast enough that crossing it on foot is a real risk.
Cooper Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue take the through traffic, including everything heading for The Shops at Atlas Park and the cemetery belt.
Cypress Hills Street and the roads along the southern edge of Forest Park put cyclists and walkers onto streets built for cars — the same pattern we see on the Woodhaven and Richmond Hill sides of the park.
Glendale is one of the neighbourhoods we cover from the Richmond Hill office. For the full picture of what we handle across the borough, start with our Queens personal injury lawyers page.
The deadline that catches people out
In New York you generally have three years from the date of an accident to bring a personal injury claim, and two and a half years for medical malpractice.
But if the MTA, the City or a public hospital is involved, a notice of claim has to be filed within 90 days. In a neighbourhood that runs on buses, that applies far more often than people expect — and it is the deadline nobody hears about until it has already passed.
If you are not sure which one applies to you, call and ask. It costs nothing to find out.