71st Avenue & Kessel Street
The four-way crossing of 71st Avenue and Kessel Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Our Lady Mercy RC Church is 540 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kessel St/71 Av, is 80 feet away for the Q23, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1935, almost all in houses of one or two.
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Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Kessel St/71 Av, 80 feet away, for the Q23.
- 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Kessel St/71 Av Q2380 feetQ23
Next buses at this stop
- Q23 …
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.
- 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station0.3 miles
- 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers0.3 miles
- 1-01 Forest Park Drive Fast charging for electric cars1.4 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2020.
What the city has done here
- Leading pedestrian interval, June 2016
- Safety Improvement Project, 2023
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
- 59 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 400 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 1935.
Trees
NYC Parks records 82 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
Parking on the streets meeting here
How signs are read- 25 signs on these blocks
- 6 different rules
The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2019 and October 2025, and the sign on the street decides.
East side of 71st Avenue
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
West side of 71st Avenue
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
North side of Kessel Street
- No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
- No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
- No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM
South side of Kessel Street
- No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM
Schools and places within a walk
How places are listedThree public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 2 religious buildings
- 1 school
Schools and child care
- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Academy School550 feet
Houses of worship
- Our Lady Mercy RC Church House of worship540 feet
Bank branches
- TD Bank Bank branch1,230 feet
Pharmacies
- CVS Pharmacy0.4 miles
Food stores and places to eat
Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat.
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 and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.
Nearby corners
The eight corners within a three-minute walk:
- 71st Avenue & Juno Street 260 feet
- 71st Avenue & Loubet Street 260 feet
- 71st Avenue & Ingram Street 520 feet
- 71st Avenue & Manse Street 520 feet
- 70th Avenue & Kessel Street 670 feet
- 72nd Avenue & Kessel Street 670 feet
- 71st Avenue & Nansen Street 780 feet
- 71st Avenue & Harrow Street 780 feet
See every intersection along 71st Avenue or Kessel Street.