166th Street & 16th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 166th Street and 16th Avenue 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. 209 Clearview Gardens is 550 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Willets Point Blvd/16 Av, is 230 feet away for the QM20, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools, and one place to eat.

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166th Street & 16th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Willets Point Blvd/16 Av, 230 feet away, for the QM20.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Willets Point Blvd/16 Av QM20
    230 feet
    QM20

Next buses at this stop

  1. QM20 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway, 1,060 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 18-10 Utopia Parkway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 12-30 Clintonville Street Charging for electric cars, three Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.6 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in July 2023.

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
52 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1950 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in April 2015, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of 16th Avenue

  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 209 Clearview Gardens School
    550 feet
  2. Interdisciplinary Cntr - Northside School
    980 feet
  3. Circle Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,000 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willets Point Playground
    50 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.