87th Avenue & Musket Street

The three-way junction of 87th Avenue and Musket Street is in Bellerose, Queens. It has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Detective William T. Gunn Playground is 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd, is 1,140 feet away for the Q43 and QM68, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and one place to eat. About 700 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1945 and 1970, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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87th Avenue & Musket Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd, 1,140 feet away, for the Q43 and QM68.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd Q43, QM68 · Shelter
    1,140 feet
    Q43 QM68
    Shelter

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 southbound at Cross Island Parkway & 85th Avenue, 0.8 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 222-41 Braddock Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 229-20 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.3 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 October 2019.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11427
Community board
Queens Community Board 13
City Council district
23
Police precinct
105
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bellerose
Elevation
93 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Amur corktree.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 018 Winchester School
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective William T. Gunn Playground
    740 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and three food stores.

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 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.