Parsons Boulevard & 72nd Avenue

Parsons Boulevard and 72nd Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens. The corner is also named Irving Newman Circle by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. It is 930 feet to the 107th Precinct, and Pomonok Post Office is 1,090 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/75 Av, is 710 feet away for the Q25. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and six places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.8 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
710 feet
Kissena Blvd/75 Av · Q25
Within a walk
9 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 2 schools and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Parsons Boulevard & 72nd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/75 Av, 710 feet away, for the Q25.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Kissena Blvd/75 Av Q25 · Shelter
    710 feet
    Q25
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Parsons Boulevard.

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    500 feet
  2. 153-10 88th Avenue Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.8 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, September 2018

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Irving Newman Circle, a co-naming enacted on October 11, 1990 (Local Law 56 of 1990).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more.

Since 2014 at least 24 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 55 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Irving Newman Circle.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2017 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 72nd Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 8AM-4PM

South side of 72nd Avenue

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

East side of Parsons Boulevard

  • Ambulettes only 2 signs AMBULETTE ONLY 7AM-4PM ALL DAYS
  • Authorized vehicles only 2 signs AVO POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Parsons Boulevard

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station
  • 1 post office

Schools and child care

  1. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    80 feet
  2. Happy Maryann Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    260 feet
  3. The World Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    840 feet
Show all 5
  1. Robert F. Kennedy Community High School
    1,090 feet
  2. Solomon Schechter School-Queens School
    1,310 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Seventy Five Playground
    1,100 feet
  2. Legacy Park
    1,280 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Pomonok Post Office
    1,090 feet

Fire and police

  1. 107th Precinct Police station
    930 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    300 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    500 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    590 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    720 feet
  2. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    980 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    360 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and 12 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 of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 72nd Avenue or Parsons Boulevard.

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