221st Street & 118th Avenue

The four-way crossing of 221st Street and 118th Avenue is in Cambria Heights, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Citizens Center is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Linden Blvd/222 St, is 650 feet away for the Q4 and QM64, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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221st Street & 118th Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Linden Blvd/222 St, 650 feet away, for the Q4 and QM64.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Linden Blvd/222 St Q4, QM64
    650 feet
    Q4 QM64

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q4 …
  2. QM64 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 10 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Cross Island Parkway & Linden Boulevard, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

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

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

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2023.

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
49 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 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cambria Heights Library
    1,310 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Citizens Center Older adult center
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and two 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 nearest corners on foot, seven of them 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.