Lefferts Boulevard & Abingdon Road

Lefferts Boulevard and Abingdon Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Yeshiva R'Tzahd is 170 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Lefferts Blvd/Metropolitan Av, is 180 feet away for the Q10, Q80 and QM18, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, four of them religious buildings, and 26 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
180 feet
Lefferts Blvd/Metropolitan Av · Q10, Q80, QM18
Within a walk
9 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

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Lefferts Boulevard & Abingdon Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Blvd/Metropolitan Av, 180 feet away, for the Q10, Q80 and QM18.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Blvd/Metropolitan Av Q10, Q80, QM18
    180 feet
    Q10 Q80 QM18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q10 …
  2. Q80 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 27 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 80-25 126th Street Charging for electric cars, 31 Level 2 chargers and three fast chargers
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2023.

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
106 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 2,100 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 1928 and 1954.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 41 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2016 and January 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Abingdon Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Abingdon Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10AM-11:30AM

East side of Lefferts Boulevard

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Lefferts Boulevard

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 9:30AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 420662.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva R'Tzahd School
    170 feet
  2. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    200 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    780 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Post Office
    1,000 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    670 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,270 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 26 places to eat and ten 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 nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Abingdon Road or Lefferts Boulevard.

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