72nd Road & Vleigh Place

The four-way crossing of 72nd Road and Vleigh Place is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and is also named Haym Saloman Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The stele “Haym Salomon” is 80 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 300 feet away for the Q20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 22 public places, 13 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
300 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
22 places
13 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
72nd Road & Vleigh Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 300 feet away, for the Q20.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 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
    300 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 five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 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
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Haym Saloman Square, a co-naming enacted on May 3, 1976 (Local Law 21 of 1976).

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 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 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Haym Saloman Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 20 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and December 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Road

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

South side of 72nd Road

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

East side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of Vleigh Place

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • 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
    80 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 22 public places.

  • 13 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    200 feet
  2. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    600 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    780 feet
Show all 6
  1. Shevach High School
    1,000 feet
  2. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,170 feet
  3. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    1,190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    880 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    1,140 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    460 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    1,060 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and seven 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 72nd Road or Vleigh Place.

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