Main Street & 78th Road

Main Street and 78th Road meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, nine police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground is 730 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/77 Rd, is 440 feet away for the Q20, and 12 bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and eight places to eat.

Safety record
6 hurt
9 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
440 feet
Main St/77 Rd · Q20
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 1 day care or pre-K site and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & 78th Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/77 Rd, 440 feet away, for the Q20.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/77 Rd Q20 · Shelter
    440 feet
    Q20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 12 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, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 146-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 112-01 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.3 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, February 2024
  • Barnes Dance all-way crossing, undated in the City's record

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
100 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

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 1940 and 1949.

Trees

NYC Parks records 56 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2017 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 78th Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 78th Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Main Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Main Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. North Queens Community High School
    830 feet
  2. Steppingstone Day School Preschool
    1,150 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Judge Moses Weinstein Playground
    730 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel Queens Valley House of worship
    900 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 141-55 77th Avenue Older adult center
    960 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    930 feet
  2. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    530 feet

Other stores

  1. Family Dollar Store
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and four 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 corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 78th Road or Main Street.

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