243rd Street & Rushmore Avenue

The three-way junction of 243rd Street and Rushmore Avenue is in Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Alley Pond Park is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Northern Blvd/243 St, is 1,150 feet away for the Q12. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 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
Long Island Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Northern Blvd/243 St · Q12
Within a walk
3 places
2 religious buildings and 1 park, within five minutes

Map

Layers
243rd Street & Rushmore Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Northern Blvd/243 St, 1,150 feet away, for the Q12.

  • 1 route within a ten-minute walk
  1. Northern Blvd/243 St Q12
    1,150 feet
    Q12

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q12 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Cross Island Parkway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 248-76 Marathon Parkway Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 249-31 61st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.9 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
11362
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
19
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Douglaston-Little Neck
Elevation
87 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 1930 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 48 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the Callery pear and the sycamore maple.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Alley Pond Park
    830 feet

Bank branches

  1. TD Bank Bank branch
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Jmart Supermarket
    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
  • 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 of the 11 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 243rd Street or Rushmore Avenue.

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