83rd Avenue & Grenfell Street

The four-way crossing of 83rd Avenue and Grenfell Street is in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Yeshiva R'Tzahd is 850 feet away. The nearest subway, Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, is about ten minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, five of them religious buildings, and 21 places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1927 and 1954, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
70 feet
Lefferts Blvd/83 Av · Q80, QM18
Within a walk
10 places
5 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
83rd Avenue & Grenfell Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Blvd/83 Av, 70 feet away, for the Q80 and QM18.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Blvd/83 Av Q80, QM18 · Shelter
    70 feet
    Q80 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q80 …
  2. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 25 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11415
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
108 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1927 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and October 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 83rd Avenue (south side) and Grenfell Street (east side).

North side of 83rd Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of Grenfell Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 421052, 425188, 465601 and 466956.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    490 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    610 feet
  3. Yeshiva R'Tzahd School
    850 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    1,050 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Post Office
    430 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    80 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    100 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 21 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 83rd Avenue or Grenfell Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.