Main Street & Jewel Avenue

Main Street and Jewel Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 29 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun is 910 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Main St/Jewel Av, is 60 feet away for the Q20 and Q44 SBS, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, eight of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
18 hurt
29 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Van Wyck Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
60 feet
Main St/Jewel Av · Q20, Q44 SBS
Within a walk
11 places
8 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Main Street & Jewel Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Main St/Jewel Av, 60 feet away, for the Q20 and Q44 SBS.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Main St/Jewel Av Q20, Q44 SBS
    60 feet
    Q20 Q44 SBS

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q20 …
  2. Q44 SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Jewel Avenue.

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway northbound at Park Drive East, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 67-24 Main Street Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 29 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 18 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 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
77 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1940 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2024 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Jewel Avenue

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

South side of Jewel Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of Main Street

  • No parking 3 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
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 7AM-7:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 430774.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 8 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Mesivta Yesodei Yeshurun School
    910 feet
  2. Sholom, Sholom Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Positive Beginnings Preschool
    1,100 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Congregation Ohel Yitzchak House of worship
    1,010 feet

Bank branches

  1. Santander Bank Bank branch
    1,010 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Seasons Express Supermarket
    1,070 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and five 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, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Jewel Avenue or Main Street.

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