221st Street & 115th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 221st Street and 115th Avenue is in Cambria Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Merrick Academy-Queens Public Charter School Middle School is 520 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 114 Av/219 St, is 1,040 feet away for the Q83, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings.

Safety record
6 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Island Parkway
1 mile by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
114 Av/219 St · Q83
Within a walk
6 places
2 religious buildings, 2 schools and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
221st Street & 115th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 114 Av/219 St, 1,040 feet away, for the Q83.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 114 Av/219 St Q83
    1,040 feet
    Q83

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q83 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at 225th Street & 103rd Avenue, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 216-04 Linden Boulevard Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Charging for electric cars, fast chargers
    1.9 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11411
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
27
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Cambria Heights
Elevation
60 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 50 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 6 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 221st Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

Landmarks and historic districts

Five buildings within 820 feet are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as Storybook, and built in 1931.

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. Merrick Academy-Queens Public Charter School Middle School
    520 feet
  2. Sacred Heart School School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    670 feet
  3. Sacred Heart Catholic Academy School
    680 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. East Springfield Playground
    1,250 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart Church Cambria Heights House of worship
    670 feet

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.5 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 and a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 115th Avenue or 221st Street.

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