Van Wyck Expressway & Jewel Avenue

Van Wyck Expressway and Jewel Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 32 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Flushing Meadows Corona Park is 90 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Jewel Av/Park Dr East, is 460 feet away for the Q64, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places. A bike lane separated from traffic runs along Jewel Avenue.

Safety record
27 hurt
32 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Grand Central Parkway
1,300 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
460 feet
Jewel Av/Park Dr East · Q64
Within a walk
2 places
1 park and 1 park feature, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Van Wyck Expressway & Jewel Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Jewel Av/Park Dr East, 460 feet away, for the Q64.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Jewel Av/Park Dr East Q64
    460 feet
    Q64

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A bike lane separated from traffic runs on Jewel Avenue.

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 113 St & Jewel Ave 12 docks in all
    0.4 miles

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound at 69th Road & Grand Central Parkway, 1,300 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 67-24 Main Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 70-31A 108th Street Charging for electric cars, 12 Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 80-25 126th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 32 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
24
Police precinct
107 and 110 and 112 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The streets

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

Homes

About 180 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 in 1950.

Trees

Five trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 park feature

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Flushing Meadows Corona Park
    90 feet
  2. Willow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Park feature
    130 feet

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A signal or safety change
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Jewel Avenue or Van Wyck Expressway.

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