117th Street & Curzon Road

The four-way crossing of 117th Street and Curzon Road is in Kew Gardens, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Forest Park is 680 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Park LN South/115 St, is 940 feet away for the Q37, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks, and ten places to eat. About 2,800 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1932 and 1961, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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117th Street & Curzon Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Park LN South/115 St, 940 feet away, for the Q37.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Park LN South/115 St Q37
    940 feet
    Q37

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q37 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
89 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1932 and 1961.

Since 2014 at least 23 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and September 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 117th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of 117th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-7AM

South side of Curzon Road

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Tudor, and built in 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Shaar Hatorah High School
    570 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    680 feet
  2. Jacob Riis Triangle
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ralph Bunche House Listed historic place
    960 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,060 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.