70th Avenue & Loubet Street

The four-way crossing of 70th Avenue and Loubet Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Our Lady Mercy RC Church is 400 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 71 Av/Loubet St, is 660 feet away for the Q23, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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70th Avenue & Loubet Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 71 Av/Loubet St, 660 feet away, for the Q23.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 71 Av/Loubet St Q23
    660 feet
    Q23

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q23 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • 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 1925 and 1930.

Trees

NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

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

East side of 70th Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 70th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Loubet Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of Loubet Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library

Schools and child care

  1. Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Academy School
    620 feet
  2. P.S. 144 Col Jeromus Remsen School
    1,040 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. North Forest Park Library
    1,110 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady Mercy RC Church House of worship
    400 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.