Main Street & 72nd Avenue

Main Street and 72nd Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 16 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Freedom Square Playground is 1,140 feet away, and Shevach High School is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/72 Av, is 120 feet away for the Q20, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 17 public places, ten of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
9 hurt
16 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
120 feet
Main St/72 Av · Q20
Within a walk
17 places
10 religious buildings, 3 day care or pre-K sites and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & 72nd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/72 Av, 120 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/72 Av Q20
    120 feet
    Q20

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway westbound at Grand Central Parkway & Union Turnpike, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 72-31 Main Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 16 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, May 2016

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
73 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 16 different rules
  • 7 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and March 2025; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM

East side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-7PM
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7:30AM-8AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 7:30AM-8AM

West side of Main Street

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7:30AM-7PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 447033, 447034 and 455557.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, at Haym Solomon Memorial.

  1. Haym Salomon Stele, 1976
    350 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seventeen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 10 religious buildings
  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    200 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  3. All My Stars Day-care. Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    380 feet
Show all 5
  1. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    790 feet
  2. Shevach High School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Freedom Square Playground
    1,140 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kew Gardens Hills Library
    510 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    100 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Seasons Express Supermarket
    0.4 miles
  2. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk 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 72nd Avenue or Main Street.

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