152nd Street & Melbourne Avenue
The three-way junction of 152nd Street and Melbourne Avenue is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 575 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Townsend Harris High School is 1,290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av, is 760 feet away for the Q25, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them older adult centers.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av, 760 feet away, for the Q25.
- 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Kissena Blvd/Melbourne Av Q25760 feetQ25
Next buses at this stop
- Q25 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.
- 154-04 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station0.5 miles
- 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers1.9 miles
- 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars2.4 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo 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 October 2020.
Camera tickets
How tickets are countedIn 2025, 575 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,105th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.
In 2026 so far, through August 27, 261 more were issued.
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
- 87 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 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 in 1951.
Trees
NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 22 signs on these blocks
- 5 different rules
- 3 active meters
- 1 pay-by-cell zone
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2023 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.
Meters are posted as 6 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 9am to 10pm on Melbourne Avenue (north side).
East side of 152nd Street
- Carshare only 1 sign CARSHARE PARKING ONLY OTHERS NO STANDING ANYTIME
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8AM-9AM
West side of 152nd Street
- No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9AM
South side of Melbourne Avenue
- No parking 10 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8AM-9AM
- No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 434440.
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 2 older adult centers
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- Townsend Harris High School1,290 feet
Community centers and public services
- Older adult center at 67-09 Kissena Boulevard Older adult center1,240 feet
- Older adult center at Pomonok Older adult center1,240 feet
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
- A signal or safety change
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The seven nearest corners on foot, two of them within a three-minute walk:
- Kissena Boulevard & Melbourne Avenue 730 feet
- Jewel Avenue & 152nd Street 810 feet
- 149th Street & Melbourne Avenue 1,250 feet
- 150th Street & Jewel Avenue 1,320 feet
- Jewel Avenue & Kissena Boulevard 0.3 miles
- 147th Street & Melbourne Avenue 0.3 miles
- 150th Street & 69th Road 0.3 miles
See every intersection along 152nd Street or Melbourne Avenue.