73rd Avenue & Kissena Boulevard

The four-way crossing of 73rd Avenue and Kissena Boulevard is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 240 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Playground Seventy Five is 1,170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/73 Av, is 60 feet away for the Q25, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Kissena Blvd/73 Av · Q25
Within a walk
6 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
73rd Avenue & Kissena Boulevard Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/73 Av, 60 feet away, for the Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 73rd Avenue.

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    690 feet
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.8 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 240 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,563rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 127 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
70 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

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

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 31 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Kissena Boulevard

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

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    760 feet
  2. The World Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    830 feet
  3. Happy Maryann Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    940 feet
Show all 5
  1. Robert F. Kennedy Community High School
    1,080 feet
  2. Solomon Schechter School-Queens School
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Seventy Five Playground
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    310 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    860 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    860 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    700 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    380 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 of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 73rd Avenue or Kissena Boulevard.

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