85th Road & 246th Street

The four-way crossing of 85th Road and 246th Street is in Bellerose, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, one police-reported crash was recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. St Gregory the Great Catholic is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/Commonwealth Blvd, is 900 feet away for the Q43 and QM68, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, two of them day care or pre-K sites.

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85th Road & 246th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/Commonwealth Blvd, 900 feet away, for the Q43 and QM68.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/Commonwealth Blvd Q43, QM68
    900 feet
    Q43 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q43 …
  2. QM68 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway northbound at Cross Island Parkway & Hillside Avenue, 1,090 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 241-15 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 238-10 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles

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 April 2021.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11426
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
23
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bellerose
Elevation
97 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

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 1945 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Our Little Angels Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. St Gregory the Great Catholic School
    890 feet
  3. P.S. 133 the Bellerose School of Excellence School
    1,300 feet
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  1. P.S. 133 Queens Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bellerose Playground
    1,030 feet

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 12 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 and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.