188th Street & Grand Central Parkway

The four-way crossing of 188th Street and Grand Central Parkway (north-west) is in Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Queens, at the edge of Cunningham Park. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Summit School is 530 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 188 St/Avon Rd, is 250 feet away for the Q17. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings. About 130 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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188th Street & Grand Central Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 188 St/Avon Rd, 250 feet away, for the Q17.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. 188 St/Avon Rd Q17
    250 feet
    Q17

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q17 …

Live arrivals

By car

A ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound starts at this corner.

  1. 187-41 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 92-23 168th Place Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.8 miles

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11423
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
23 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Jamaica Estates-Holliswood; the corner is on the edge of the Cunningham Park area

The streets

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

Homes

About 130 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 38 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Summit School
    530 feet
  2. All My Children Day Care and Nursery School Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    940 feet
  3. P.S./ Is 178 Holliswood School
    1,080 feet

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 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

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