69th Avenue & 108th Street

The four-way crossing of 69th Avenue and 108th Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Yellowstone Park is 710 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Hills-71 Av, is about five minutes on foot, for the E, F, M and R. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and four places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Hills-71 Av
1,250 feet · 5 min on foot · E, F, M, R
Nearest bus stop
80 feet
108 St/69 Av · Q23
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 parks and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
69th Avenue & 108th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Hills-71 Av, 1,250 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    1,250 feet
    E F M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
4 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. M …
  4. R …
Manhattan
4 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. M …
  4. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 67 Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 108 St/69 Av, 80 feet away, for the Q23.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 108 St/69 Av Q23
    80 feet
    Q23

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q23 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 108 St & Jewel Ave 18 docks in all
    510 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 105-55 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1,250 feet
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported nine crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2016

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
54 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,200 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 1940 and 1948.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 26 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2014 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 108th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 108th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 69th Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 69th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    110 feet
  2. The Academy for Excellence Through the Arts School
    830 feet
  3. Aim High Childrens - Rise and Shine School
    990 feet
Show all 4
  1. Ivy United USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Yellowstone Park
    710 feet
  2. Yellowstone Park Playground
    940 feet
  3. MacDonald Park
    1,220 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    980 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    870 feet
  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 four places to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 108th Street or 69th Avenue.

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.