75th Avenue & 196th Street
The four-way crossing of 75th Avenue and 196th Street is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 1,320 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Farm Playground is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 73 Av/196 St, is 910 feet away for the Q88, and 14 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/196 St, 910 feet away, for the Q88.
- 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
- 73 Av/196 St Q88910 feetQ88
Next buses at this stop
- Q88 …
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.
- 176-02 Union Turnpike Gas station1.2 miles
- 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger2.2 miles
- 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars2.9 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 September 2019.
Camera tickets
How tickets are countedIn 2025, 1,320 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 616th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.
In 2026 so far, through August 27, 737 more were issued.
| Direction on the ticket | 2025 | 2026 so far |
|---|---|---|
| Westbound on 75th Avenue | 825 | 416 |
| Eastbound on 75th Avenue | 495 | 321 |
| Total | 1,320 | 737 |
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
- 68 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, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1955.
Trees
NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.
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 - Fresh Meadows Branch Pre-K1,240 feet
- Appletree Day Care Center - 197th Street Pre-K1,280 feet
Parks, playgrounds and gardens
- Cunningham Park860 feet
- Farm Playground890 feet
- Kissena Corridor Park1,020 feet
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 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:
- 75th Avenue & 195th Street 260 feet
- 75th Avenue & 196th Place 260 feet
- 75th Avenue & 197th Street 520 feet
- 194th Street & 75th Avenue 520 feet
- 75th Avenue & 198th Street 740 feet
- 75th Avenue & 193rd Street 780 feet
- 73rd Avenue & 196th Street 820 feet
- 75th Avenue & 199th Street 970 feet
See every intersection along 196th Street or 75th Avenue.