171st Street & 68th Avenue

The three-way junction of 171st Street and 68th Avenue is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Young Israel of Hillcrest is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utopia Pkwy/69 Av, is 0.3 miles away for the Q31, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1950, almost all in houses of one or two. NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

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171st Street & 68th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utopia Pkwy/69 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q31.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utopia Pkwy/69 Av Q31
    0.3 miles
    Q31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q31 …

Live arrivals

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, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 61-19 Fresh Meadow Lane Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.3 miles

No 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 2019.

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
46 feet above sea level

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 in 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fresh Meadows Playground
    960 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Hillcrest House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 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 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.