78th Avenue & 113th Street

The three-way junction of 78th Avenue and 113th Street is in Forest Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park is 630 feet away. The nearest subway, Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, is about a minute on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 17 places to eat. About 900 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1941, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crashes
0 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
380 feet · 1 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Queens Blvd/78 Av · Q60, QM18, QM63, QM64 +2
Within a walk
11 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
78th Avenue & 113th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, 380 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kew Gardens-Union Tpke E, F
    380 feet
    E F

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …

Also within a walk

  1. 75 Av E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/78 Av, 280 feet away, for the Q60, QM18, QM63, QM64 and two more.

  • 14 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/78 Av Q60, QM18, QM63, QM64 +2
    280 feet
    Q60 QM18 QM63 QM64 QM65 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM18 …
  3. QM63 …
  4. QM64 …
  5. QM65 …
  6. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd N & 78 Ave 24 docks in all
    320 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Union Turnpike, 990 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 141-50 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 January 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
74 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1941.

Trees

NYC Parks records 44 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 2 trade or language schools
  • 1 college
  • 1 older adult center
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Telecom Institute of New York Trade or language school
    500 feet
  2. Plaza College
    760 feet
  3. Ezra Academy School
    1,090 feet
Show all 7
  1. Kew Forest School
    1,120 feet
  2. Bright Kids of America Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,190 feet
  3. Access Institute Trade or language school
    1,260 feet
  4. Baby Steps Daycare Center II Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,270 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Park feature
    630 feet
  2. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    870 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road Older adult center
    1,260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    710 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    950 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    580 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    460 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 places to eat and four food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change, a parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 113th Street or 78th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.