56th Avenue & 193rd Street

The three-way junction of 56th Avenue and 193rd Street is in Auburndale, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Ella Fitzgerald Playground is 730 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hollis Court Blvd/56 Av, is 1,300 feet away for the Q26, and nine bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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56th Avenue & 193rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hollis Court Blvd/56 Av, 1,300 feet away, for the Q26.

  • 9 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hollis Court Blvd/56 Av Q26
    1,300 feet
    Q26

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q26 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Underhill Avenue at Long Island Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 184-17 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 20602 Northern Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1.3 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 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 December 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
20
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Auburndale
Elevation
43 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 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Kissena Corridor Park
    410 feet
  2. Ella Fitzgerald Playground
    730 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Heavenly Voice Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,300 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Shopping centers

  1. Fresh Meadows Place Shopping center
    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 9 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, USDA and NYC Finance, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.