97th Street & 63rd Drive

The three-way junction of 97th Street and 63rd Drive is in Rego Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Valence College Preparatory Charter School is 1,060 feet away. The nearest subway, 63 Dr-Rego Park, is about a minute on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, five of them trade or language schools, and 33 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
63 Dr-Rego Park
290 feet · 1 min on foot · M, R
Nearest bus stop
250 feet
63 Dr/Queens Blvd · Q72
Within a walk
15 places
5 trade or language schools, 3 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
97th Street & 63rd Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 63 Dr-Rego Park, 290 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 63 Dr-Rego Park M, R
    290 feet
    M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …
Manhattan
2 lines
  1. M …
  2. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 63 Dr/Queens Blvd, 250 feet away, for the Q72.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 63 Dr/Queens Blvd Q72
    250 feet
    Q72

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q72 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 43 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 4 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd N & 63 Rd 30 docks in all
    590 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 97th Street, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 96-27 Queens Boulevard Gas station
    480 feet
  2. 62-60 99th Street Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    0.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 2 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11374
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
24 and 29 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Rego Park
Elevation
34 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,800 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 1951 and 1959.

Trees

NYC Parks records 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 9 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and August 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on 63rd Drive (east side).

North side of 63rd Drive

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of 97th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

West side of 97th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 403599, 405782 and 465697.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 trade or language schools
  • 3 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 college
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. United Career Centers Trade or language school
    140 feet
  2. Organikids Infant, toddler and preschool care · Pre-K
    240 feet
  3. Valence College Preparatory Charter School
    1,060 feet
Show all 11
  1. Tribeca Barber & Beauty School Trade or language school
    770 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet
  3. Metropolitan Learning Institute Trade or language school
    1,000 feet
  4. Interdisciplinary Cntr - Rego Park School
    1,080 feet
  5. St. Paul's Schl Nurs - Queens College
    1,200 feet
  6. National Institute of Realtime Repor Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  7. P. S. C. School of Careers Trade or language school
    1,200 feet
  8. Midrash L'Man Achai School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Horace Harding Playground
    1,100 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Rego Park Jewish Center Listed historic place
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of the Angelus Church House of worship
    610 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citibank Bank branch
    450 feet
  2. Santander Bank Bank branch
    840 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    580 feet
  2. NetCost Market Supermarket
    980 feet
  3. CTown Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    770 feet

Other stores

  1. Costco Store
    0.3 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Rego Center Shopping center
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 33 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and 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:

See every intersection along 63rd Drive or 97th Street.

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 Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.