225th Street & 103rd Avenue

The five-way junction of 225th Street and 103rd Avenue is in Queens Village, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, 13 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Hempstead Bench Spread is 80 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hempstead Av/225 St, is 250 feet away for the Q2 and Q82, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them parks, and one place to eat.

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225th Street & 103rd Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hempstead Av/225 St, 250 feet away, for the Q2 and Q82.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hempstead Av/225 St Q2, Q82
    250 feet
    Q2 Q82

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q2 …
  2. Q82 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet

By car

A ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound starts at this corner.

  1. 213-10 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 229-20 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    1.8 miles
  3. 134-40 Springfield Boulevard Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 13 crashes at this corner, more than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 9 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11429
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
27
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queens Village
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

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 1930 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 67 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2014 and March 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 225th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of 225th Street

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hempstead Bench Spread Park
    80 feet
  2. Hempstead Ballfield Park
    110 feet
  3. Pat Williams Playground
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.