53rd Avenue & 214th Street

The four-way crossing of 53rd Avenue and 214th Street is in Bayside, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. The Civic School of Bayside Hills is 990 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 216 St/Luke Pl, is 580 feet away for the Q27, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them religious buildings.

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53rd Avenue & 214th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 216 St/Luke Pl, 580 feet away, for the Q27.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 216 St/Luke Pl Q27
    580 feet
    Q27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q27 …

Live arrivals

By car

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

  1. 219-02 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 47-14 217th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.5 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1 mile

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported one crash 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 October 2024.

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)
Bayside
Elevation
76 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 1935 and 1945.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. The Civic School of Bayside Hills School
    990 feet
  2. P.S. 390 Pre-K
    990 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Colonial Church of Bayside House of worship
    780 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 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:

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.