188th Street & 64th Avenue

The three-way junction of 188th Street and 64th Avenue is in Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Queens, and is also named Edgar G. Holmes, Jr. Oval by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Fresh Meadows Park is 580 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 188 St/64 Av, is 110 feet away for the Q17, Q45, Q88 and four more. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
188 St/64 Av · Q17, Q45, Q88, QM5 +3
Within a walk
3 places
2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
188th Street & 64th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 188 St/64 Av, 110 feet away, for the Q17, Q45, Q88, QM5 and three more.

  • 13 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 188 St/64 Av Q17, Q45, Q88, QM5 +3
    110 feet
    Q17 Q45 Q88 QM5 QM7 QM8 QM35

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …
  2. Q45 …
  3. Q88 …
  4. QM5 …
  5. QM7 …
  6. QM8 …
  7. QM35 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 182nd Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184-17 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.9 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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 September 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, August 2021

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
23
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Fresh Meadows-Utopia
Elevation
51 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Edgar G. Holmes, Jr. Oval, a co-naming enacted on October 23, 1950 (Local Law 108 of 1950).

The streets

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

Homes

About 90 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 1975.

Trees

NYC Parks records 30 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Edgar G. Holmes, Jr. Oval.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 13 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between September 2021 and May 2026; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 188th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 9 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 188th Street

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 64th Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 8:30AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-8:30AM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Other rule 3 signs PARKING PERMITTED THIS SIDE ONLY

South side of 64th Avenue

  • No standing 6 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 453059.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 park

Schools and child care

  1. Little Meadows Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,110 feet
  2. Little Meadows Early Childhood Cntr Preschool
    1,230 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fresh Meadows Park
    580 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    300 feet
  2. Capital One Bank branch
    370 feet
  3. Chase Bank branch
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Lidl Supermarket
    1,000 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    350 feet
  2. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Fresh Meadows Place Shopping center
    50 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 188th Street or 64th Avenue.

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