73rd Avenue & Main Street at Vleigh Place

The four-way crossing of 73rd Avenue, Main Street and Vleigh Place is in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/73 Av, is 130 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 14 of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
130 feet
Main St/73 Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
25 places
14 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
73rd Avenue & Main Street at Vleigh Place Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/73 Av, 130 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/73 Av Q20, Q44 SBS · Shelter
    130 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 24 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, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    780 feet
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.5 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

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
74 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • 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 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 47 signs on these blocks
  • 20 different rules
  • 4 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and August 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Friday 8am to 7pm on Vleigh Place (east side).

North side of 73rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 6 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-THURSDAY NOON-7PM FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 7:30AM-8AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-THURSDAY 7AM-NOON

West side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 437911, 442838, 446670 and 449536.

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
    460 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 14 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    410 feet
  2. Shevach High School
    470 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    510 feet
Show all 6
  1. Congregation Ahavas Yisroel of Kew Gardens Hills Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Yeshivat Bnei Torah School
    980 feet
  3. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    990 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    340 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    540 feet
  2. Queens County Savings Bank, Kew Gardens Hills Branch Listed historic place
    780 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel Queens Valley House of worship
    1,260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Post Office
    620 feet
  2. Older adult center at 141-55 77th Avenue Older adult center
    1,290 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    540 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    790 feet
  3. TD Bank Bank branch
    880 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and eight 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 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 73rd Avenue, Main Street or Vleigh Place.

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