163rd Street & 21st Road

The four-way crossing of 163rd Street and 21st Road is in Bay Terrace-Clearview, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 184 Flushing Manor is 320 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Francis Lewis Blvd/163 St, is 70 feet away for the Q76, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and eight places to eat.

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163rd Street & 21st Road Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Francis Lewis Blvd/163 St, 70 feet away, for the Q76.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Francis Lewis Blvd/163 St Q76
    70 feet
    Q76

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q76 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway northbound, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 157-30 Willets Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 12-30 Clintonville Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11357
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Terrace-Clearview
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 400 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 1950 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 8 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2017 and July 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 163rd Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 21st Road

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

South side of 21st Road

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 184 Flushing Manor School
    320 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Playground Twenty One Playground
    770 feet

Bank branches

  1. Capital One Bank branch
    1,110 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    820 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 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 Parks, NYC Health, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.