221st Street & Kingsbury Avenue

The three-way junction of 221st Street and Kingsbury Avenue is in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ebenezer Mission Church is 940 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Union Tpke/220 Pl, is 1,080 feet away for the Q46 and Q48, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places and five places to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1955, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Grand Central Parkway
0.5 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,080 feet
Union Tpke/220 Pl · Q46, Q48
Within a walk
4 places
1 listed historic place, 1 nature area and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
221st Street & Kingsbury Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Union Tpke/220 Pl, 1,080 feet away, for the Q46 and Q48.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Union Tpke/220 Pl Q46, Q48
    1,080 feet
    Q46 Q48

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q46 …
  2. Q48 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 223-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 221-18 Manor Road Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.5 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)
Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills
Elevation
182 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 200 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 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 70 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 nature area
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 188 Kingsbury School
    950 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Motor Parkway Nature area
    130 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Long Island Motor Parkway Listed historic place
    1,260 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Ebenezer Mission Church House of worship
    940 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat.

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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 221st Street or Kingsbury Avenue.

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