Metropolitan Avenue & Grosvenor Lane

Metropolitan Avenue and Grosvenor Lane meet at a three-way junction in Kew Gardens, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Queens corner. Sobelsohn Park Playground is 1,070 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, is 380 feet away for the Q54, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat. About 2,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1931 and 1960, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
1,160 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Metropolitan Av/Park LN South · Q54
Within a walk
11 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & Grosvenor Lane Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, 380 feet away, for the Q54.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Metropolitan Av/Park LN South Q54
    380 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, 1,160 feet 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 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, the median for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,100 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 1931 and 1960.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2016 and May 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Metropolitan Avenue (north side).

East side of Grosvenor Lane

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Grosvenor Lane

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 10AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 9:30AM-10AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 452808 and 459465.

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

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    520 feet
  2. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    680 feet
  3. Sholom Sholom Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    680 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    540 feet
  2. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    870 feet
  3. Sobelsohn Park Playground
    1,070 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Ralph Bunche House Listed historic place
    540 feet
  2. Kent Manor Listed historic place
    970 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    30 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 six food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Grosvenor Lane or Metropolitan Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.