112th Street & 72nd Avenue

The four-way crossing of 112th Street and 72nd Avenue is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Willow Lake Playground is 490 feet away, and Church of Christ Forest Hills is 930 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 Av, is about four minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, five of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 Av
1,100 feet · 4 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
1,070 feet
Queens Blvd/72 Dr · Q60, QM11, QM18
Within a walk
12 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
112th Street & 72nd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 Av, 1,100 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 75 Av E, F
    1,100 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Also within a walk

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/72 Dr, 1,070 feet away, for the Q60, QM11 and QM18.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/72 Dr Q60, QM11, QM18 · Shelter
    1,070 feet
    Q60 QM11 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM11 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 72 Rd & 113 St 12 docks in all
    620 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

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
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,500 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 1948 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 65 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 30 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 112th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 112th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Melville Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. Bnos Malka Academy School
    680 feet
  3. P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway School
    690 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willow Lake Playground
    490 feet
  2. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    1,210 feet
  3. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Park feature
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    1,030 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Reform Temple of Forest Hills House of worship
    390 feet
  2. First Presbyterian Church Forest Hills House of worship
    640 feet
  3. Church of Christ Forest Hills House of worship
    930 feet
Show all 4
  1. Congregation Ahavath Sholom House of worship
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and five 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 112th Street or 72nd 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.