53rd Avenue & 73rd Street

The three-way junction of 53rd Avenue and 73rd Street is in Maspeth, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Garlinge Triangle is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Grand Av/73 St, is 720 feet away for the Q59, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and four places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1920 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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53rd Avenue & 73rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Av/73 St, 720 feet away, for the Q59.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Av/73 St Q59
    720 feet
    Q59

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 9 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at 68th Street & Queens Boulevard, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 74-01 Grand Avenue Gas station
    1,020 feet
  2. 56-18 69th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 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 June 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11378
Community board
Queens Community Board 5
City Council district
30
Police precinct
104
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Maspeth
Elevation
105 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 900 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 1920 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the eastern redbud.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 58 - the School of Heroes School
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Garlinge Triangle
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,000 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Shops at Grand Avenue Shopping center
    700 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and three 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 corners on foot, seven of them 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.