Austin Street & 81st Avenue

Austin Street and 81st Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. In 2025, 48 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Kew Forest School is 1,020 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 eight public places, two of them post offices, and 11 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
1,190 feet · 5 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
320 feet
80 Rd/Austin St · Q37, Q80
Within a walk
8 places
2 post offices, 1 day care or pre-K site and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Austin Street & 81st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, 1,190 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kew Gardens-Union Tpke E, F
    1,190 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 80 Rd/Austin St, 320 feet away, for the Q37 and Q80.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 80 Rd/Austin St Q37, Q80
    320 feet
    Q37 Q80

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q37 …
  2. Q80 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 78 Ave & Queens Blvd S 29 docks in all
    0.3 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
    0.7 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2024.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 48 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 1,833rd most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 23 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
120 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,000 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 1926 and 1953.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 18 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2016 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 81st Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM

South side of 81st Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10AM-11:30AM

East side of Austin Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Austin Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 post offices
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Beth Gavriel DCC Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    390 feet
  2. Access Institute Trade or language school
    1,000 feet
  3. Kew Forest School
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    1,120 feet
  2. Forest Park
    1,160 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 80-02 Kew Gardens Road Older adult center
    1,000 feet
  2. Borough Hall Post Office
    1,220 feet
  3. Kew Gardens Post Office
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

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

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 11 places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 81st Avenue or Austin Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.