61st Avenue & 57th Drive

The four-way crossing of 61st Avenue and 57th Drive is in Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. P.S. 221 the North Hills School is 1,150 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Horace Harding Expwy/244 St, is 0.3 miles away for the Q30, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them schools. About 600 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1953, most in buildings of ten homes or more.

Safety record
2 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Long Island Expressway
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
0.3 miles
Horace Harding Expwy/244 St · Q30
Within a walk
4 places
2 schools, 1 day care or pre-K site and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
61st Avenue & 57th Drive Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Horace Harding Expwy/244 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q30.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Horace Harding Expwy/244 St Q30
    0.3 miles
    Q30

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q30 …

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
    0.5 miles
  2. 249-31 61st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported two crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11362
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
23
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Douglaston-Little Neck
Elevation
184 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1953.

Trees

NYC Parks records 29 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 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. QSAC Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    410 feet
  2. Qsac, Inc. - Douglaston School
    500 feet
  3. P.S. 221 the North Hills School
    1,150 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 245th Place, 57th Drive or 61st Avenue.

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.