Kissena Boulevard & 72nd Road

Kissena Boulevard and 72nd Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Vleigh Playground is 810 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av, is 410 feet away for the Q25, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and seven places to eat. About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1950 and 1952, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.9 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
410 feet
Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av · Q25
Within a walk
2 places
1 day care or pre-K site and 1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Kissena Boulevard & 72nd Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av, 410 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/Aguilar Av Q25
    410 feet
    Q25

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens Hills
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,300 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 1950 and 1952.

Trees

NYC Parks records 79 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8am to 7pm on Kissena Boulevard (east side).

North side of 72nd Road

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 72nd Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM

West side of Kissena Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 7:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 7AM-7:30AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 443456 and 452720.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Ivy International USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Vleigh Playground
    810 feet

Bank branches

  1. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    820 feet
  2. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    820 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    430 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    560 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, 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 72nd Road or Kissena Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.