67th Avenue & Thornton Place

The three-way junction of 67th Avenue and Thornton Place is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Forest Hills Care Center is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, 67 Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and six places to eat. About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1962, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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67th Avenue & Thornton Place Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is 67 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 67 Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Yellowstone Blvd/Clyde St, 1,080 feet away, for the QM12 and QM42.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Yellowstone Blvd/Clyde St QM12, QM42 · Shelter
    1,080 feet
    QM12 QM42
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM12 …
  2. QM42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 67 Ave & Queens Blvd S 18 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 75-41 Yellowstone Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 6725 Clyde Street Charging for electric cars, 29 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
79 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1951 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 36 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and December 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 67th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 67th Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Thornton Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools 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 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Forest Hills Montessori School
    1,020 feet
  2. Baby Steps Day Care Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Health care

  1. Forest Hills Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Vitelio's Market Place Supermarket
    750 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, 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.