108th Street & 68th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 108th Street and 68th Avenue is in Forest Hills, Queens, and is also named Rabbi Dr. Asher Murciano Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Central Queens YM-YWHA is 680 feet away. The nearest subway, 67 Av, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings.

Safety record
4 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
67 Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
108 St/67 Rd · Q23
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
108th Street & 68th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 67 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 67 Av M, R
    0.3 miles
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 108 St/67 Rd, 530 feet away, for the Q23.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 108 St/67 Rd Q23
    530 feet
    Q23

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q23 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Yellowstone Blvd & 68 Ave 16 docks in all
    610 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 105-55 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 66-36 Yellowstone Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 71 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rabbi Dr. Asher Murciano Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,100 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 1941 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 163 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the common linden.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rabbi Dr. Asher Murciano Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

East side of 108th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 108th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 68th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 68th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. Commonpoint NY Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    890 feet
  3. Aim High Childrens - Rise and Shine School
    990 feet
Show all 5
  1. The Academy for Excellence Through the Arts School
    1,090 feet
  2. The Cheder School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Yellowstone Park
    200 feet
  2. Yellowstone Park Playground
    480 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Queens Jewish Center House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Central Queens YM-YWHA Recreation center
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

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

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 108th Street or 68th Avenue.

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