121st Street & Hawtree Creek Road

The three-way junction of 121st Street and Hawtree Creek Road (north) is in South Ozone Park, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom is 470 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Rockaway Blvd/121 St, is 240 feet away for the Q7 and Q10, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them schools, and eight places to eat.

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121st Street & Hawtree Creek Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Rockaway Blvd/121 St, 240 feet away, for the Q7 and Q10.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Rockaway Blvd/121 St Q7, Q10
    240 feet
    Q7 Q10

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q7 …
  2. Q10 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 23 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Van Wyck Expressway southbound, 0.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 118-05 115th Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 110-00 Rockaway Boulevard Charging for electric cars, 44 Level 2 chargers
    1.2 miles
  3. 130th Place Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11420
Community board
Queens Community Board 10
City Council district
28
Police precinct
106
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
South Ozone Park
Elevation
24 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1938.

Trees

NYC Parks records 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese pagoda tree.

Monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

The City's public art inventory lists one work near this corner, in Catholic War Veterans Square.

  1. Catholic War Veterans Memorial Cross, 1938
    270 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 2 parks

Schools and child care

  1. Epic High School - South School
    470 feet
  2. Hawtree Creek Middle School
    470 feet
  3. J.H.S. 226 Virgil I. Grissom School
    470 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Catholic War Veterans Square
    460 feet
  2. David J O'Connell Square
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Farm Boy Country Market Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    910 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are eight places to eat and six food stores.

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 of the 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

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