86th Avenue & 250th Street

The four-way crossing of 86th Avenue and 250th Street is in Bellerose, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Bellerose Library is 1,260 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/250 St, is 0.3 miles away for the Q43, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, two of them religious buildings. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1935 and 1945, almost all in houses of one or two.

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86th Avenue & 250th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/250 St, 0.3 miles away, for the Q43.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/250 St Q43
    0.3 miles
    Q43

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q43 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway northbound at Cross Island Parkway & Hillside Avenue, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 241-15 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 238-10 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.8 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 November 2017.

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
96 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 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Callery pear.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 133 the Bellerose School of Excellence School
    580 feet
  2. P.S. 133 Queens Pre-K
    580 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Bellerose Playground
    790 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bellerose Library
    1,260 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.