232nd Street & Seward Avenue

The four-way crossing of 232nd Street and Seward Avenue is in Bellerose, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Business Technology Early College High School is 750 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/231 St, is 1,110 feet away for the Q43, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them schools, and two places to eat.

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232nd Street & Seward Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/231 St, 1,110 feet away, for the Q43.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/231 St Q43
    1,110 feet
    Q43

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q43 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Grand Central Parkway westbound, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 223-15 Union Turnpike Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 229-20 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

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)
Bellerose
Elevation
104 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 300 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 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 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 September 2015 and February 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

West side of 232nd Street

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

South side of Seward Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Business Technology Early College High School
    750 feet
  2. Martin van Buren High School
    750 feet
  3. Parsons Preschool Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    950 feet
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  1. Psychotherapeutic Eval - Hillside School
    1,010 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Alley Athletic Playground
    840 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are two places to eat and one food store.

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 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.