Metropolitan Avenue & J Robinson Parkway

Metropolitan Avenue and J Robinson Parkway meet at a three-way junction in Kew Gardens, Queens, at the edge of Forest Park. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Sobelsohn Park Playground is 1,230 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, is 740 feet away for the Q54, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
a ramp starts at this corner
Nearest bus stop
740 feet
Metropolitan Av/Park LN South · Q54
Within a walk
6 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 1 listed historic place and 3 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & J Robinson Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, 740 feet away, for the Q54.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

By car

A ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
City Council district
29 and 32 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens; the corner is on the edge of the Forest Park area
Elevation
104 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 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 in 1935.

Trees

Ten trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the northern red oak.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    960 feet
  2. Sholom Sholom Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    30 feet
  2. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    250 feet
  3. Sobelsohn Park Playground
    1,230 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kent Manor Listed historic place
    870 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • 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 J Robinson Parkway or Metropolitan Avenue.

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