218th Place & Spencer Avenue

The three-way junction of 218th Place and Spencer Avenue is in Queens Village, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/Springfield Blvd, is 650 feet away for the Q1, Q36, Q43 and QM68, and eight bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and seven places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1949 and 1950, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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218th Place & Spencer Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/Springfield Blvd, 650 feet away, for the Q1, Q36, Q43 and QM68.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/Springfield Blvd Q1, Q36, Q43, QM68
    650 feet
    Q1 Q36 Q43 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q1 …
  2. Q36 …
  3. Q43 …
  4. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 7 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Clearview Expressway at Clearview Expressway & Hillside Avenue at 212th Street, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 219-24 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    1,100 feet
  2. 221-18 Manor Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 June 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11427
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
23
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queens Village
Elevation
114 feet above sea level

The streets

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

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 1949 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    1,310 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are seven 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
  • A parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight 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.