162nd Street & Booth Memorial Avenue
The three-way junction of 162nd Street and Booth Memorial Avenue is in Queensboro Hill, Queens, at the edge of Kissena Park. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 628 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Four Winds Playground is 490 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 164 St/Booth Memorial Av, is 540 feet away for the Q65, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is 164 St/Booth Memorial Av, 540 feet away, for the Q65.
- 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
- 164 St/Booth Memorial Av Q65540 feetQ65
Next buses at this stop
- Q65 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.
- 154-01 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station0.7 miles
- 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers1.7 miles
- 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars2.1 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 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 October 2024.
Camera tickets
How tickets are countedIn 2025, 628 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,044th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.
In 2026 so far, through August 27, 336 more were issued.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11365
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 7
- City Council district
- 20
- Police precinct
- 109
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Queensboro Hill; the corner is on the edge of the Kissena Park area
- Elevation
- 48 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
Homes
About 400 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 between 1940 and 1950.
Trees
NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the black cherry.
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 1 park
- 1 playground
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- P.S. 163 Flushing Heights School1,040 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Kissena Park50 feet
- Four Winds Playground490 feet
Supermarkets
- Queens Health Emporium Supermarket0.4 miles
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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- 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:
- 163rd Street & Booth Memorial Avenue 260 feet
- 161st Street & Booth Memorial Avenue 260 feet
- 160th Street & Booth Memorial Avenue 520 feet
- 164th Street & Booth Memorial Avenue 530 feet
- 162nd Street & 59th Avenue 580 feet
- 159th Street & Booth Memorial Avenue 780 feet
- 161st Street & 59th Avenue 810 feet
- 59th Avenue & 163rd Street 840 feet
See every intersection along 162nd Street or Booth Memorial Avenue.