63rd Avenue & Yellowstone Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 63rd Avenue and Yellowstone Boulevard is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Barrier Playground is 820 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 62 Dr/Yellowstone Blvd, is 320 feet away for the Q38, QM12 and QM42, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
62 Dr/Yellowstone Blvd · Q38, QM12, QM42
Within a walk
10 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 playgrounds and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
63rd Avenue & Yellowstone Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 62 Dr/Yellowstone Blvd, 320 feet away, for the Q38, QM12 and QM42.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 62 Dr/Yellowstone Blvd Q38, QM12, QM42
    320 feet
    Q38 QM12 QM42

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q38 …
  2. QM12 …
  3. QM42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 8 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 108 St & 62 Dr 16 docks in all
    820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at 62nd Avenue & Apex Place, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 105-55 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 62-60 99th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer 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 November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, November 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, November 2020

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
24
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
44 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 63rd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of 63rd Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Yellowstone Boulevard

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Yellowstone Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-8PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Jacob Jewish Educational Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    620 feet
  2. J.H.S. 157 Stephen A. Halsey School
    950 feet
  3. P.S. 220 Edward Mandel School
    1,120 feet
Show all 5
  1. Babies Dream Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    1,120 feet
  2. Creative Discovery Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Sixty Two LXII Playground
    570 feet
  2. Barrier Playground
    820 feet
  3. Annadale Playground
    1,110 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 108-25 62nd Drive Older adult center
    1,190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 63rd Avenue or Yellowstone Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.