60th Avenue & Kissena Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 60th Avenue and Kissena Boulevard is in Queensboro Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kissena Park is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Horace Harding Expwy, is 80 feet away for the Q17 and Q25, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
680 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
Kissena Blvd/Horace Harding Expwy · Q17, Q25
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
60th Avenue & Kissena Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Horace Harding Expwy, 80 feet away, for the Q17 and Q25.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Horace Harding Expwy Q17, Q25 · Shelter
    80 feet
    Q17 Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 60th Avenue and Kissena Boulevard.

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 680 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 154-04 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    720 feet
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    1.5 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 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.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11355
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensboro Hill
Elevation
37 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 500 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 33 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and June 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Kissena Boulevard (east side).

North side of 60th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of 60th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 437143, 438265, 445851 and 452691.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 playgrounds
  • 1 museum
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Preschool 'r' US II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    40 feet
  2. Ivy Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,090 feet
  3. The Child Development Center at Queens College Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Pomonok Playground
    1,150 feet
  2. Kissena Corridor Park
    1,190 feet
  3. Kissena Park
    1,200 feet
Show all 4
  1. Captain Mario Fajardo Playground
    1,210 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Godwin-Ternbach Museum
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Queens Health Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 places to eat and four 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 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 60th Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

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