Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road

Grand Central Parkway and 72nd Road meet at a five-way junction in Forest Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 7,834 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Willow Lake Playground is 300 feet away. The nearest subway, 75 Av, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, five of them religious buildings.

Safety record
9 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
75 Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Queens Blvd/72 Dr · Q60, QM11, QM18
Within a walk
11 places
5 religious buildings, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 75 Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 75 Av E, F
    0.3 miles
    E F

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    0.5 miles
    E F M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/72 Dr, 0.3 miles away, for the Q60, QM11 and QM18.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/72 Dr Q60, QM11, QM18 · Shelter
    0.3 miles
    Q60 QM11 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM11 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 72 Rd & 113 St 12 docks in all
    340 feet

By car

A ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 141-50 Union Turnpike Gas station
    1.5 miles
  2. 112-20 72nd Drive Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 7,834 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 16th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 3,378 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
41 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Three of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,200 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 1941 and 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the northern red oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 48 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2015 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 72nd Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Grand Central Parkway

  • No standing 17 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Grand Central Parkway

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 196 Grand Central Parkway School
    780 feet
  2. Yeshiva Sha'arei Zion Ohel Bracha School
    1,130 feet
  3. Melville Montessori Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    250 feet
  2. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Park feature
    260 feet
  3. Willow Lake Playground
    300 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ahavath Sholom House of worship
    1,130 feet
  2. Reform Temple of Forest Hills House of worship
    1,220 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

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 nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 72nd Road or Grand Central Parkway.

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 Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.