68th Avenue & Booth Street

The three-way junction of 68th Avenue and Booth Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. It is 900 feet to the 112th Precinct. The nearest subway, 67 Av, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and 25 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
67 Av
790 feet · 3 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Queens Blvd/68 Dr · Q60
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
68th Avenue & Booth Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 67 Av, 790 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 67 Av M, R
    790 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    0.4 miles
    E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/68 Dr, 630 feet away, for the Q60.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/68 Dr Q60 · Shelter
    630 feet
    Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Booth St & 68 Dr 15 docks in all
    300 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 96-27 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 104-20 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    570 feet
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 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.

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 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
78 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 3,800 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 1949 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 87 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2015 and September 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 68th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 68th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Booth Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. J.H.S. 190 Russell Sage School
    660 feet
  2. Clearview Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,100 feet
  3. Wonderland Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,150 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ivy United USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Russell Sage Playground
    80 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sephardic Jewish Congregation & Center of Queens House of worship
    410 feet
  2. Young Israel of Forest Hills House of worship
    1,020 feet

Fire and police

  1. 112th Precinct Police station
    900 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Vitelio's Market Place Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 places to eat and eight food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 68th Avenue or Booth Street.

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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.