168th Street & 69th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 168th Street and 69th Avenue is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Young Israel of Hillcrest is 710 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 164 St/69 Av, is 1,100 feet away for the QM4 and QM44, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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168th Street & 69th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 164 St/69 Av, 1,100 feet away, for the QM4 and QM44.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 164 St/69 Av QM4, QM44
    1,100 feet
    QM4 QM44

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM4 …
  2. QM44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 61-19 Fresh Meadow Lane Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.1 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported six crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fresh Meadows-Utopia
Elevation
64 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 1945 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Green leaf' Japanese flowering cherry and the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    710 feet
  2. Universal Assessment and Consulting Preschool
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Hillcrest House of worship
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    960 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • 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 of the 10 corners 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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.