153rd Street & 72nd Road

The three-way junction of 153rd Street and 72nd Road is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and is also named Abe Wolfson Triangle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Vleigh Playground is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av, is 270 feet away for the Q25, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av · Q25
Within a walk
3 places
2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
153rd Street & 72nd Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av, 270 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av Q25
    270 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Abe Wolfson Triangle, a co-naming enacted on May 23, 1974 (Local Law 10 of 1974).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 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 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Abe Wolfson Triangle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

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

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 7:30am to 7pm on 72nd Road (north side).

East side of 153rd Street

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

West side of 153rd Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 72nd Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 452720.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ivy International USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  2. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vleigh Playground
    940 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    680 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    690 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    300 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    420 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,170 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and 11 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 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 153rd Street or 72nd Road.

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