215th Street & 51st Avenue

The three-way junction of 215th Street and 51st Avenue is in Bayside, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Captain Dermody Triangle is 860 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 216 St/50 Av, is 420 feet away for the Q27, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them parks. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1945, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
420 feet
216 St/50 Av · Q27
Within a walk
5 places
2 parks, 2 religious buildings and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
215th Street & 51st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 216 St/50 Av, 420 feet away, for the Q27.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 216 St/50 Av Q27
    420 feet
    Q27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q27 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 218-01 Northern Boulevard Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 47-14 217th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.3 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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
11364
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
23
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bayside
Elevation
76 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1935 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park feature

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Captain Dermody Triangle
    860 feet
  2. Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park Park feature
    1,140 feet
  3. Alley Pond Park
    1,140 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Colonial Church of Bayside House of worship
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

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 15 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 215th Street or 51st Avenue.

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