72nd Avenue & Vleigh Place

The four-way crossing of 72nd Avenue and Vleigh Place is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kew Gardens Hills Library is 370 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 240 feet away for the Q20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 19 public places, 12 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
240 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
19 places
12 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
72nd Avenue & Vleigh Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 240 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/72 Av Q20
    240 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2012

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)
Kew Gardens Hills
Elevation
68 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and September 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

East side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Haym Solomon Memorial.

  1. Haym Salomon Stele, 1976
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nineteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 12 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    380 feet
  2. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    470 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    550 feet
Show all 5
  1. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    970 feet
  2. Shevach High School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    1,150 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    370 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    190 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Seasons Express Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and six 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 of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 72nd Avenue or Vleigh Place.

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