Metropolitan Avenue & Park Lane South

Metropolitan Avenue and Park Lane South meet at a four-way crossing in Kew Gardens, Queens. The corner is also named Raoul Wallenberg Square by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 34 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Forest Park is 50 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, is 40 feet away for the Q54, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
17 hurt
34 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Jackie Robinson Parkway
670 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Metropolitan Av/Park LN South · Q54
Within a walk
9 places
2 day care or pre-K sites, 2 listed historic places and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Metropolitan Avenue & Park Lane South Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Metropolitan Av/Park LN South, 40 feet away, for the Q54.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q54 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 16 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Metropolitan Avenue, 670 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 85-10 126th Street Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 101-09 Metropolitan Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 34 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 17 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2017
  • Turn calming, January 2024

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11418
Community board
Queens Community Board 9
City Council district
29 and 32 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
102
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Kew Gardens
Elevation
116 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Raoul Wallenberg Square, a co-naming enacted on December 2, 1981 (Local Law 86 of 1981).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

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 are the London planetree and the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Raoul Wallenberg Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 60 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2022 and February 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

South side of Metropolitan Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 4PM-7PM

East side of Park Lane South

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

West side of Park Lane South

  • No parking 21 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10AM-11:30AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

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

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Sholom Day Care Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    180 feet
  2. Sholom Sholom Infant and toddler care, ages 0 to 2
    180 feet
  3. Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe School
    1,020 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Forest Park
    50 feet
  2. The Overlook in Forest Park Park feature
    370 feet
  3. Sobelsohn Park Playground
    570 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Kent Manor Listed historic place
    470 feet
  2. Ralph Bunche House Listed historic place
    730 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    710 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    530 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Metropolitan Avenue or Park Lane South.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, 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.