169th Street & Jewel Avenue
The four-way crossing of 169th Street and Jewel Avenue is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens, and is also named Rabbi Simcha Krauss Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Young Israel of Hillcrest is 200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jewel Av/164 St, is 0.3 miles away for the Q64, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, four of them religious buildings.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Jewel Av/164 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q64.
- 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Jewel Av/164 St Q640.3 milesQ64
Next buses at this stop
- Q64 …
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 & 182nd Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.
- 61-19 Fresh Meadow Lane Gas station0.7 miles
- 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger2 miles
- 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars2.9 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, the median for a Queens corner.
- 1 person injured
- 0 people killed
The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.
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
- 55 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Rabbi Simcha Krauss Way, a co-naming enacted on July 23, 2023 (Local Law 110 of 2023).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
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 1950 and 1960.
Trees
NYC Parks records 73 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rabbi Simcha Krauss Way.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 4 signs on these blocks
- 2 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.
North side of Jewel Avenue
- No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
South side of Jewel Avenue
- No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedFive public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 4 religious buildings
- 1 day care or pre-K site
Schools and child care
- All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K200 feet
Houses of worship
- Young Israel of Hillcrest House of worship200 feet
Supermarkets
- Key Food Supermarket0.3 miles
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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:
- 170th Street & Jewel Avenue 250 feet
- 168th Street & Jewel Avenue 250 feet
- 169th Street & 71st Avenue 350 feet
- 167th Street & Jewel Avenue 500 feet
- 171st Street & Jewel Avenue 500 feet
- 169th Street & 69th Avenue 520 feet
- 170th Street & 71st Avenue 580 feet
- 168th Street & 71st Avenue 600 feet
See every intersection along 169th Street or Jewel Avenue.