57th Avenue & 72nd Place

The three-way junction of 57th Avenue and 72nd Place is in Maspeth, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Garlinge Triangle is 60 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Grand Av/72 St, is 360 feet away for the Q58 and Q59, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them schools, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Grand Av/72 St · Q58, Q59
Within a walk
8 places
3 schools, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
57th Avenue & 72nd Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Grand Av/72 St, 360 feet away, for the Q58 and Q59.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Grand Av/72 St Q58, Q59
    360 feet
    Q58 Q59

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q58 …
  2. Q59 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Queens Midtown Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 74-01 Grand Avenue Gas station
    1,300 feet
  2. 56-18 69th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported five 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 a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

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
100 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 34 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2015 and January 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 57th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

East side of 72nd Place

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 72nd Place

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Garlinge Triangle.

  1. Maspeth Memorial Stele, 1931
    80 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 58 - the School of Heroes School
    310 feet
  2. Maspeth High School
    1,030 feet
  3. I.S. 73 - the Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Garlinge Triangle
    60 feet
  2. Quick Brown Fox Triangle
    650 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Maspeth Library
    950 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 69-61 Grand Avenue Older adult center
    980 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    880 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,130 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    820 feet

Shopping centers

  1. Shops at Grand Avenue Shopping center
    1,300 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and nine food stores.

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:

See every intersection along 57th Avenue or 72nd Place.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.