108th Street & 62nd Drive

The four-way crossing of 108th Street and 62nd Drive is in Forest Hills, Queens, and is also named Joseph Hennessy Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 220 Edward Mandel is 630 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 62 Dr/108 St, is 50 feet away for the Q38, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them playgrounds, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
570 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
62 Dr/108 St · Q38
Within a walk
7 places
2 playgrounds, 2 schools and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
108th Street & 62nd Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 62 Dr/108 St, 50 feet away, for the Q38.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 62 Dr/108 St Q38
    50 feet
    Q38

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on 62nd Drive.

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 108 St & 62 Dr 16 docks in all
    50 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at 62nd Avenue & Apex Place, 570 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 105-55 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    990 feet
  2. 62-60 99th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
24
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
27 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Joseph Hennessy Way, a co-naming enacted on August 14, 2022 (Local Law 81 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 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 1956 and 1975.

Since 2014 at least 298 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 25 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Joseph Hennessy Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2019 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 108th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING 7AM-9AM 4PM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 108th Street

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 62nd Drive

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

South side of 62nd Drive

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 220 Edward Mandel School
    630 feet
  2. High School for Arts and Business School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Sixty Two LXII Playground
    490 feet
  2. Barrier Playground
    1,230 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 108-25 62nd Drive Older adult center
    390 feet

Fire and police

  1. Division 14/Engine 324 Fire station
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Ideal Food Basket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 108th Street or 62nd Drive.

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