38th Avenue & 216th Street

The four-way crossing of 38th Avenue and 216th Street is in Bayside, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Crocheron Park is 1,050 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Bell Blvd/38 Av, is 0.3 miles away for the Q13 and Q31, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, three of them religious buildings. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1930 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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38th Avenue & 216th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bell Blvd/38 Av, 0.3 miles away, for the Q13 and Q31.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bell Blvd/38 Av Q13, Q31
    0.3 miles
    Q13 Q31

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q13 …
  2. Q31 …

Live arrivals

By car

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

  1. 35-02 Bell Boulevard Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 214-32 41st Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight fast chargers
    0.4 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2020.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11361
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
19
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bayside
Elevation
87 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 1930 and 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 71 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 3 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 216th Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of 38th Avenue

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Sacred Heart Catholic-Bayside School
    280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Crocheron Park
    1,050 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Sacred Heart of Jesus RC Church House of worship
    200 feet
  2. Bayside All St Episcopal Church House of worship
    1,210 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Walfood Supermarket Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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 of the 10 corners 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.