163rd Street & 27th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 163rd Street and 27th Avenue is in Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Working Org for Retarded Children is 440 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 29 Av/163 St, is 600 feet away for the Q16, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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163rd Street & 27th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 29 Av/163 St, 600 feet away, for the Q16.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 29 Av/163 St Q16 · Shelter
    600 feet
    Q16
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q16 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway northbound at Clearview Expressway & 26th Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 157-30 Willets Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 2 Bay Club Drive Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1.3 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11358
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing
Elevation
75 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 58 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the red maple.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ibrain Nursery Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    370 feet
  2. Working Org for Retarded Children School
    440 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two food stores.

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 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 16 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.