Parsons Boulevard & 73rd Avenue

Parsons Boulevard and 73rd Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 154 Queens is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Kissena Blvd/75 Av, is 470 feet away for the Q25, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are eight public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and five places to eat. About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

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

Map

Layers
Parsons Boulevard & 73rd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Kissena Blvd/75 Av, 470 feet away, for the Q25.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q25 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 73rd Avenue and Parsons Boulevard.

  • 11 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, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 73-15 Parsons Boulevard Gas station
    250 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
    2.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, August 2022

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11366
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
69 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 1,400 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 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2019 and August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

South side of 73rd Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON

East side of Parsons Boulevard

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 10:30AM-NOON
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Parsons Boulevard

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 10:30AM-NOON

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eight public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 schools
  • 1 playground
  • 1 police station

Schools and child care

  1. New Milestone Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    320 feet
  2. Happy Maryann Day School Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    500 feet
  3. Robert F. Kennedy Community High School
    840 feet
Show all 6
  1. The World Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    590 feet
  2. Solomon Schechter School-Queens School
    1,070 feet
  3. P.S. 154 Queens School
    1,250 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Seventy Five Playground
    860 feet

Fire and police

  1. 107th Precinct Police station
    1,170 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    240 feet
  2. Citizens Bank Bank branch
    670 feet
  3. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    760 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    890 feet
  2. Aron's Kissena Farms Supermarket
    1,150 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    110 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and 11 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 73rd Avenue or Parsons Boulevard.

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