71st Avenue & 112th Street

The four-way crossing of 71st Avenue and 112th Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. First Presbyterian Church Forest Hills is 130 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 ten public places, four of them religious buildings. About 2,000 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1963, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Hills-71 Av
0.3 miles · 5 min on foot · E, F, M, R
Nearest bus stop
830 feet
Jewel Av/112 St · Q64, Q74, QM4, QM44
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
71st Avenue & 112th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Hills-71 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    0.3 miles
    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. 75 Av E, F
    0.3 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jewel Av/112 St, 830 feet away, for the Q64, Q74, QM4 and QM44.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jewel Av/112 St Q64, Q74, QM4, QM44
    830 feet
    Q64 Q74 QM4 QM44

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q64 …
  2. Q74 …
  3. QM4 …
  4. QM44 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 70 Rd & 112 St 19 docks in all
    290 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 110-34 Colonial Avenue Gas station
    1.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  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 four crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 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
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,000 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 1963.

Trees

NYC Parks records 77 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

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 January 2017 and September 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 112th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of 112th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of 71st Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 71st Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Melville Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    160 feet
  2. Bnos Malka Academy School
    320 feet
  3. P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway School
    600 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willow Lake Playground
    580 feet

Health care

  1. Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    920 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Forest Hills Library
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. First Presbyterian Church Forest Hills House of worship
    130 feet
  2. Reform Temple of Forest Hills House of worship
    160 feet
  3. Church of Christ Forest Hills House of worship
    410 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,320 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.5 miles

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 112th Street or 71st 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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.