73rd Avenue & 172nd Street
The four-way crossing of 73rd Avenue and 172nd Street is in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens, and is also named Ilyau Aronov Corner by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Utopia Playground is 1,300 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utopia Pkwy/73 Av, is 0.3 miles away for the Q30, Q31 and Q75, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, five of them religious buildings.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is Utopia Pkwy/73 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q30, Q31 and Q75.
- 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
- Utopia Pkwy/73 Av Q30, Q31, Q750.3 milesQ30 Q31 Q75
Next buses at this stop
- Q30 …
- Q31 …
- Q75 …
Cycling
A marked bike lane runs on 172nd Street and 73rd Avenue.
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 182nd Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.
- 176-02 Union Turnpike Gas station0.7 miles
- 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger2 miles
- 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars2.8 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedBetween 2021 and 2025, police reported five crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
- 3 people injured
- 0 people killed
- 1 of those hurt, on foot
- 1 of those hurt, on a bike
The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11366
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 8
- City Council district
- 24
- Police precinct
- 107
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
- Elevation
- 69 feet above sea level
This corner is also named Ilyau Aronov Corner, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is one-way
Homes
About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1955.
Trees
NYC Parks records 75 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Ilyau Aronov Corner.
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedEight public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 5 religious buildings
- 2 schools
- 1 playground
Schools and child care
- Birch Family Services - Susser School1,190 feet
- Holy Family Catholic -Brooklyn School1,240 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Utopia Playground1,300 feet
Houses of worship
- Congregation Ohr Moshe House of worship330 feet
Not on record for this corner:
- A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
- A signal or safety change
- A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
- A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet
Nearby corners
The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:
- 73rd Avenue & 171st Street 250 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 173rd Street 260 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 170th Street 510 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 174th Street 520 feet
- 172nd Street & 75th Avenue 560 feet
- 172nd Street & 71st Avenue 590 feet
- 75th Avenue & 171st Street 750 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 169th Street 760 feet
See every intersection along 172nd Street or 73rd Avenue.