141st Street & 72nd Avenue

The four-way crossing of 141st Street and 72nd Avenue is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The stele “Haym Salomon” is 800 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 740 feet away for the Q20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, nine of them religious buildings, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Grand Central Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
15 places
9 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
141st Street & 72nd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 740 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/72 Av Q20
    740 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 13 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at 69th Road & Grand Central Parkway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 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.

  • 12 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens Hills
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 500 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the American basswood.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 34 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 141st Street

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

West side of 141st Street

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

North side of 72nd Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 447034.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Haym Solomon Memorial.

  1. Haym Salomon Stele, 1976
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 9 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 library
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    850 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,020 feet
  3. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    1,030 feet
Show all 4
  1. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    1,110 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohel Yitzchak House of worship
    1,080 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    750 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 141st Street or 72nd Avenue.

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