Hillside Avenue & Kew Gardens Road

Hillside Avenue and Kew Gardens Road meet at a three-way junction in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, six police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Our Lady of Cenacle Church is 940 feet away. The nearest subway, Jamaica-Van Wyck, is about four minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them schools, and 14 places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
6 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Jamaica-Van Wyck
1,010 feet · 4 min on foot · E
Nearest bus stop
770 feet
Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av · Q54
Within a walk
4 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hillside Avenue & Kew Gardens Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Jamaica-Van Wyck, 1,010 feet from this corner, about four minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jamaica-Van Wyck E
    1,010 feet
    E

Next trains at this station

Jamaica
1 line
  1. E …
Manhattan
1 line
  1. E …

Also within a walk

  1. Briarwood E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F
  2. Sutphin Blvd F
    0.5 miles
    F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av, 770 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Hillside Av Q54
    770 feet
    Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at 138th Street & Van Wyck Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 130-14 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    860 feet
  2. 150-07 Archer Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 800 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1954.

Since 2014 at least 13 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 23 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2020 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Hillside Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Kew Gardens Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING SATURDAY 7AM-7:30AM

South side of Kew Gardens Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Kew Gardens Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Tiegerman High School
    960 feet
  2. Zucker Jewish Academy of Queens School
    1,010 feet
  3. Ezra Jack Keats Pre-K Center at 132-10 Jamaica Avenue Pre-K center
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Our Lady of Cenacle Church House of worship
    940 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trade Fair Supermarket
    580 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 14 places to eat and six 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 13 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hillside Avenue or Kew Gardens Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.