169th Street & 18th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 169th Street and 18th Avenue is in Bay Terrace-Clearview, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Willets Point Playground is 1,200 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Utopia Pkwy/19 Av, is 330 feet away for the Q16 and QM20, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1951 and 1955, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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169th Street & 18th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Utopia Pkwy/19 Av, 330 feet away, for the Q16 and QM20.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Utopia Pkwy/19 Av Q16, QM20 · Shelter
    330 feet
    Q16 QM20
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q16 …
  2. QM20 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 18-10 Utopia Parkway Gas station
    280 feet
  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
    2.3 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 January 2013.

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
62 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1951 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 69 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 18th Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Circle Academy Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    720 feet
  2. Interdisciplinary Cntr - Northside School
    850 feet
  3. P.S. 209 Clearview Gardens School
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Willets Point Playground
    1,200 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    560 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and three 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 corners on foot, seven of them 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.