83rd Avenue & Kew Gardens Road

The three-way junction of 83rd Avenue and Kew Gardens Road is in Kew Gardens, Queens, and is also named Murray & Carol Berger Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The kinetic sculpture “Dialogue with the Sun” is 800 feet away. The nearest subway, Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, is about five minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are five public places and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
1,310 feet · 5 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
280 feet
Kew Gardens Rd/82 Rd · Q80
Within a walk
5 places
1 courthouse, 1 park and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
83rd Avenue & Kew Gardens Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, 1,310 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kew Gardens-Union Tpke E, F
    1,310 feet
    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 Kew Gardens Rd/82 Rd, 280 feet away, for the Q80.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kew Gardens Rd/82 Rd Q80
    280 feet
    Q80

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q80 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 83rd Avenue and Kew Gardens Road.

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd N & 78 Ave 24 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Union Turnpike, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, October 2023

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
124 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Murray & Carol Berger Way, a co-naming enacted on January 20, 2024 (Local Law 41 of 2024).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,100 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 1936 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Murray & Carol Berger Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 49 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2020 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 83rd Avenue

  • No standing 7 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of 83rd Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Kew Gardens Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Kew Gardens Road

  • No parking 18 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 11 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Queens County Criminal Building.

  1. Dialogue with the Sun Kinetic sculpture by Susumo Shingu, 1995
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 courthouse
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 099 Kew Gardens School
    310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Maple Grove Park
    940 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Queens Criminal Court Courthouse
    1,010 feet
  2. Kew Gardens Post Office
    1,020 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    1,290 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,230 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 83rd Avenue or Kew Gardens Road.

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