Queens Boulevard & 69th Road

Queens Boulevard and 69th Road meet at a three-way junction in Forest Hills, Queens. The corner is also named Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser Square by local law. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Forest Hills Post Office is 240 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Hills-71 Av, is about three minutes on foot, for the E, F, M and R. Within a five-minute walk are 12 public places, four of them day care or pre-K sites, and 47 places to eat.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest subway
Forest Hills-71 Av
820 feet · 3 min on foot · E, F, M, R
Nearest bus stop
260 feet
Queens Blvd/Yellowstone Blvd · Q60, QM18
Within a walk
12 places
4 day care or pre-K sites, 2 religious buildings and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & 69th Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Hills-71 Av, 820 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines at the nearest station
  1. Forest Hills-71 Av E, F, M, R
    820 feet
    E F M R

Next trains at this station

Outbound
4 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. M …
  4. R …
Manhattan
4 lines
  1. E …
  2. F …
  3. M …
  4. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 67 Av M, R
    0.4 miles
    M R

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/Yellowstone Blvd, 260 feet away, for the Q60 and QM18.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/Yellowstone Blvd Q60, QM18
    260 feet
    Q60 QM18

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …
  2. QM18 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 20 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd S & Yellowstone Blvd 24 docks in all
    570 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 75-41 Yellowstone Boulevard Gas station
    1.1 miles
  2. 104-40 Queens Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    1,150 feet
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, January 2016

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11375
Community board
Queens Community Board 6
City Council district
29
Police precinct
112
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Forest Hills
Elevation
46 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser Square, a co-naming enacted on October 12, 1984 (Local Law 57 of 1984).

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 3,400 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 1960 and 1965.

Since 2014 at least 100 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 104 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Rabbi Ben Zion Bokser Square.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 17 different rules
  • 6 active meters
  • 3 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2016 and July 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 69th Road

  • Metered parking 3 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-7PM

North side of 69th Road

  • Loading only 1 sign LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-7PM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

South side of 69th Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of 69th Road

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

North side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING 8:30AM-9AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

South side of Queens Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 400994, 466690 and 467661.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in MacDonald Park.

  1. Gerald MacDonald Statue by Frederic De Henwood, 1934
    430 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Twelve public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 garden
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 park
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Metropolitan Learning Institute Trade or language school
    370 feet
  2. Ivy United USA Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  3. Achieve Beyond Preschool
    490 feet
Show all 4
  1. Clearview Kids Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,070 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. MacDonald Park
    20 feet
  2. Charlotte's Way - South Jamaica II Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    1,240 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Forest Hills Jewish Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    140 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 106-06 Queens Boulevard Older adult center
    220 feet
  2. Forest Hills Post Office Listed historic place
    240 feet

Fire and police

  1. 112th Precinct Police station
    1,270 feet

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    770 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    270 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    1,150 feet
  3. Vitelio's Market Place Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    800 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    1,280 feet

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    680 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 47 places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 69th Road or Queens Boulevard.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Records, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.