Lefferts Boulevard & Austin Street

Lefferts Boulevard and Austin Street meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. The corner is also named Aaron Adler Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kew Gardens Post Office is 260 feet away. The nearest subway, Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, is about eight minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, four of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Lefferts Blvd/Austin St · Q10, Q80, QM18
Within a walk
10 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lefferts Boulevard & Austin Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines at the nearest station
  1. Kew Gardens-Union Tpke E, F
    0.4 miles
    E F

Next trains at this station

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

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Lefferts Blvd/Austin St, 60 feet away, for the Q10, Q80 and QM18.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Lefferts Blvd/Austin St Q10, Q80, QM18 · Shelter
    60 feet
    Q10 Q80 QM18
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q10 …
  2. Q80 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Union Turnpike, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2025.

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
104 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Aaron Adler Way, a co-naming enacted on January 19, 2020 (Local Law 26 of 2020).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 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 1927 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Aaron Adler Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 54 signs on these blocks
  • 18 different rules
  • 5 active meters
  • 4 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2016 and January 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 10am to 7pm on Lefferts Boulevard (east side).

East side of Austin Street

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

North side of Austin Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING 7AM-7PM ALL DAYS
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Austin Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of Austin Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Authorized vehicles only 1 sign AUTHORIZED VEHICLES ONLY US POSTAL SERVICE
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 7AM-MIDNIGHT EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 15 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 402930, 403163, 403750 and 421373.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  3. P.S. 099 Kew Gardens School
    1,180 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeshiva R'Tzahd School
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Eight Oaks Triangle
    1,010 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Post Office
    260 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    420 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    350 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 17 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 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Austin Street or Lefferts Boulevard.

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