75th Avenue & 196th Place

The four-way crossing of 75th Avenue and 196th Place is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Kissena Corridor Park is 760 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union Tpke/197 St, is 970 feet away for the Q46 and Q48, and nine 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. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

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75th Avenue & 196th Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union Tpke/197 St, 970 feet away, for the Q46 and Q48.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union Tpke/197 St Q46, Q48
    970 feet
    Q46 Q48

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q46 …
  2. Q48 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway southbound at Union Turnpike, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 200-05 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    2.1 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.9 miles

No 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 November 2015.

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
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1950 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 76 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in July 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 75th Avenue

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Appletree Day Care Center - Fresh Meadows Branch Pre-K
    980 feet
  2. Appletree Day Care Center - 197th Street Pre-K
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    760 feet
  2. Cunningham Park
    890 feet
  3. Farm Playground
    960 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Island of Gold Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • 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:

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