Dartmouth Street & Thornton Place

Dartmouth Street and Thornton Place meet at a three-way junction in Forest Hills, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Forest Hills Care Center is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, 67 Av, is about nine minutes on foot, for the M and R. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and six places to eat. About 1,700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1953 and 1962, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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Dartmouth Street & Thornton Place Nearby corners, linked

Subway

The nearest subway station is 67 Av, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. 67 Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    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 Yellowstone Blvd/Clyde St, 1,110 feet away, for the QM12 and QM42.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Yellowstone Blvd/Clyde St QM12, QM42 · Shelter
    1,110 feet
    QM12 QM42
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM12 …
  2. QM42 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 67 Ave & Queens Blvd S 18 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at Jewel Avenue & Grand Central Parkway, 1.2 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 75-41 Yellowstone Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 6725 Clyde Street Charging for electric cars, 29 Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 90-15 Queens Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11374
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29 and 30 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
82 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,700 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 1953 and 1962.

Trees

NYC Parks records 40 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Dartmouth Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Dartmouth Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of Thornton Place

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of Thornton Place

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Forest Hills Montessori School
    1,050 feet

Health care

  1. Forest Hills Care Center Nursing home or hospice
    970 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Vitelio's Market Place Supermarket
    840 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and three 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 of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

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