113th Street & 72nd Road

The three-way junction of 113th Street and 72nd Road is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway is 1,100 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 Av, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 Av
1,220 feet · 5 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
1,190 feet
Queens Blvd/72 Dr · Q60, QM11, QM18
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
113th Street & 72nd Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 Av, 1,220 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 75 Av E, F
    1,220 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
    0.4 miles
    E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/72 Dr, 1,190 feet away, for the Q60, QM11 and QM18.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/72 Dr Q60, QM11, QM18 · Shelter
    1,190 feet
    Q60 QM11 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM11 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road, 310 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 141-50 Union Turnpike Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 112-20 72nd Drive Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

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
57 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,600 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 1950 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 60 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the 'Not Green Leaf' Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

East side of 113th Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 113th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 72nd Road

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Melville Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,030 feet
  2. P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway School
    1,100 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    570 feet
  2. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Park feature
    570 feet
  3. Willow Lake Playground
    610 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ahavath Sholom House of worship
    870 feet
  2. Reform Temple of Forest Hills House of worship
    1,030 feet
  3. First Presbyterian Church Forest Hills House of worship
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

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 corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 113th Street or 72nd Road.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.