73rd Avenue & 153rd Street

The four-way crossing of 73rd Avenue and 153rd Street is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 658 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Yeshivat Bnei Torah is 1,160 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/73 Av, is 590 feet away for the Q25, and eight 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 five places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
590 feet
Kissena Blvd/73 Av · Q25
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
73rd Avenue & 153rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/73 Av, 590 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/73 Av Q25
    590 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 73rd Avenue.

  • 15 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    1,220 feet
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 658 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,018th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 280 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
64 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Trees

NYC Parks records 54 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2022 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 153rd Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of 153rd Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

North side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools 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
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    1,160 feet
  2. Touro University - Kew Gardens College
    1,160 feet
  3. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,250 feet
Show all 4
  1. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    830 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    910 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 12 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 153rd Street or 73rd Avenue.

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