Metropolitan Avenue & 118th Street

Metropolitan Avenue and 118th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 12 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 817 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Forest Park is 730 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, is 560 feet away for the Q54, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 13 public places, four of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
8 hurt
12 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
0.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
560 feet
Metropolitan Av/Park LN South · Q54
Within a walk
13 places
4 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & 118th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, 560 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Park LN South Q54
    560 feet
    Q54

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 12 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2025

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 817 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 889th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 308 more were issued.

School-zone speed camera tickets by the direction of travel written on the ticket
Direction on the ticket20252026 so far
Eastbound on Metropolitan Avenue501200
Westbound on Metropolitan Avenue316108
Total817308

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
125 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 2,400 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 1928 and 1956.

Since 2014 at least 29 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 53 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 3 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2016 and April 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 118th Street

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of 118th Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM

East side of 83rd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10AM-11:30AM

West side of 83rd Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM

North side of Metropolitan Avenue

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

South side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 9:30AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 416773 and 421053.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as neo-Tudor, and built in 1927.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Thirteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    340 feet
  2. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    860 feet
  3. Sholom Sholom Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    860 feet
Show all 4
  1. Yeshiva R'Tzahd School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    730 feet
  2. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    1,050 feet
  3. Sobelsohn Park Playground
    1,250 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ralph Bunche House Listed historic place
    720 feet
  2. Kent Manor Listed historic place
    1,150 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    70 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    150 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and seven food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 118th Street, 83rd Avenue or Metropolitan Avenue.

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