73rd Avenue & 198th Street
The four-way crossing of 73rd Avenue and 198th Street is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 334 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Kissena Corridor Park is 310 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 73 Av/198 St, is 70 feet away for the QM5, QM8 and QM35, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites.
Map
Getting there
How walks are measuredBus
The nearest bus stop is 73 Av/198 St, 70 feet away, for the QM5, QM8 and QM35.
- 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
- 73 Av/198 St QM5, QM8, QM3570 feetQM5 QM8 QM35
Next buses at this stop
- QM5 …
- QM8 …
- QM35 …
Cycling
A marked bike lane runs on 73rd Avenue.
By car
The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway northbound at 73rd Avenue & Hollis Hills Terrace, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.
- 200-05 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station1 mile
- 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger1.9 miles
- 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars2.6 miles
Safety record
How crashes are countedNo police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.
The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2018.
Camera tickets
How tickets are countedIn 2025, 334 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,411th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.
In 2026 so far, through August 27, 199 more were issued.
About this corner
Where facts come from- ZIP code
- 11366
- Community board
- Queens Community Board 8
- City Council district
- 23
- Police precinct
- 107
- Neighborhood (City Planning area)
- Fresh Meadows-Utopia
- Elevation
- 73 feet above sea level
The streets
- Up to two travel lanes
- One of the streets is 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 1950 and 1955.
Trees
NYC Parks records 91 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.
Schools, parks and places within a walk
How places are listedFive public places are within a five-minute walk.
- 2 day care or pre-K sites
- 2 parks
- 1 playground
Schools and child care
- Appletree Day Care Center - 197th Street Pre-K380 feet
- Appletree Day Care Center - Fresh Meadows Branch Pre-K470 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Kissena Corridor Park310 feet
- Cunningham Park520 feet
- Farm Playground620 feet
Supermarkets
- Island of Gold Supermarket Supermarket0.3 miles
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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:
- 73rd Avenue & 197th Street 230 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 199th Street 250 feet
- Francis Lewis Boulevard & 73rd Avenue 450 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 196th Place 490 feet
- 69th Avenue & 198th Street 720 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 196th Street 750 feet
- 75th Avenue & 198th Street 840 feet
- 69th Avenue & 197th Street 950 feet
See every intersection along 198th Street or 73rd Avenue.