71st Avenue & Kissena Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 71st Avenue and Kissena Boulevard is in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 165 Edith K. Bergtraum is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/71 Av, is 250 feet away for the Q25, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and seven places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
Kissena Blvd/71 Av · Q25
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 park and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
71st Avenue & Kissena Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/71 Av, 250 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/71 Av Q25
    250 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2023
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,200 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 in 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 60 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and December 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 71st Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 71st Avenue

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON

East side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 7 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 435421, 435422 and 443456.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ivy International USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    380 feet
  2. P.S. 165 Edith K. Bergtraum School
    860 feet
  3. Judi`s Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vleigh Playground
    130 feet
  2. Legacy Park
    1,040 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    820 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    950 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along 71st Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYCHA, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.