Lefferts Boulevard & Talbot Street

Lefferts Boulevard and Talbot Street meet at a three-way junction in Kew Gardens, Queens. The corner is also named rue Barry Lewis Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Kew Gardens Post Office is 400 feet away. The nearest subway, Kew Gardens-Union Tpke, is about seven minutes on foot, for the E and F. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them religious buildings, and 17 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
1 police-reported crash, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Kew Gardens-Union Tpke
0.4 miles · 7 min on foot · E, F
Nearest bus stop
220 feet
Lefferts Blvd/Austin St · Q10, Q80, QM18
Within a walk
8 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Lefferts Boulevard & Talbot 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 seven 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, 220 feet away, for the Q10, Q80 and QM18.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q10 …
  2. Q80 …
  3. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Union Turnpike, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.6 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 one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

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 rue Barry Lewis Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

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 1956.

Trees

NYC Parks records 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on rue Barry Lewis Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 15 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

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

East side of Lefferts Boulevard

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Talbot Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

West side of Talbot Street

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park
  • 1 post office
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 099 Kew Gardens School
    920 feet
  2. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,100 feet
  3. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,220 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Eight Oaks Triangle
    1,100 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Kew Gardens Post Office
    400 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    680 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    610 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 five 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 Lefferts Boulevard or Talbot Street.

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.