72nd Drive & Vleigh Place

The four-way crossing of 72nd Drive and Vleigh Place is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kew Gardens Hills Library is 270 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/73 Av, is 150 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 23 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
150 feet
Main St/73 Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
23 places
13 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
72nd Drive & Vleigh Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/73 Av, 150 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/73 Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    150 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 26 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, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    560 feet
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.7 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2024.

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
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 500 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and November 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 7pm on Vleigh Place (east side).

East side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 446670.

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
    190 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    210 feet
  2. Shevach High School
    730 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
Show all 6
  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    790 feet
  2. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    900 feet
  3. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    1,170 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    620 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    270 feet
  2. Queens County Savings Bank, Kew Gardens Hills Branch Listed historic place
    1,060 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    880 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    690 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    800 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,040 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change 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 Drive or Vleigh Place.

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