Queens Boulevard & 71st Road

Queens Boulevard and 71st Road meet at a four-way crossing in Forest Hills, Queens. The corner is also named Adelaide Connaughton Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 2,044 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Ridgewood Savings Bank stands 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Forest Hills-71 Av, is about a minute on foot, for the E, F, M and R. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places and 78 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
13 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Forest Hills-71 Av
310 feet · 1 min on foot · E, F, M, R
Nearest bus stop
360 feet
Queens Blvd/71 Av · Q60
Within a walk
10 places
3 trade or language schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Queens Boulevard & 71st Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Forest Hills-71 Av, 310 feet from this corner, about a minute on foot.

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

Next trains at this station

Outbound
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Manhattan
4 lines
  1. E …
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Also within a walk

  1. 75 Av E, F
    0.3 miles
    E F

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Queens Blvd/71 Av, 360 feet away, for the Q60.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Queens Blvd/71 Av Q60 · Shelter
    360 feet
    Q60
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q60 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Queens Blvd N & 71 Ave 29 docks in all
    310 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway eastbound at Grand Central Parkway & 72nd Road, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 100-16 Metropolitan Avenue Gas station
    1.2 miles
  2. 112-20 72nd Drive Charging for electric cars, 20 Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, December 2023

Camera tickets

How tickets are counted

In 2025, 2,044 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 413th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 903 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
69 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Adelaide Connaughton Way, a co-naming enacted on August 23, 2019 (Local Law 158 of 2019).

The streets

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

Homes

About 2,500 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 1940 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 37 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Adelaide Connaughton Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 75 signs on these blocks
  • 21 different rules
  • 8 active meters
  • 6 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2023 and August 2024; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

Meters are posted as 2 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 9am to 7pm on Queens Boulevard (north side), and as 3 hour passenger vehicles Monday to Saturday 8:30am to 7pm on Queens Boulevard (south side).

East side of 71st Road

  • Metered parking 5 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 71st Road

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 7AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 71st Road

  • Metered parking 4 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of 71st Road

  • Metered parking 3 signs 3 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-10PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 401386, 401387, 466767, 467216, 468409 and 468412.

Landmarks and historic districts

One building within 820 feet is designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Modern Classical, and built between 1939 and 1940.

  1. Ridgewood Savings Bank Designated landmark
    520 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 trade or language schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 1 library
  • 1 nursing home or hospice
  • 3 other places

Schools and child care

  1. American Training Center Trade or language school
    250 feet
  2. One Stop Academy Trade or language school
    760 feet
  3. Austin Medical Assistant Training LL Trade or language school
    1,060 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Charlotte's Way - South Jamaica II Houses (NYCHA) Garden
    210 feet
  2. MacDonald Park
    730 feet

Health care

  1. Forest View Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing Nursing home or hospice
    550 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Forest Hills Library
    790 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Forest Hills Jewish Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Forest Hills Post Office Listed historic place
    1,180 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    130 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    400 feet
  3. Bank of America Bank branch
    650 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    240 feet
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    240 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Target Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 78 places to eat and ten food stores.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 71st Road or Queens Boulevard.

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