Avenue A & 3rd Street

Avenue A and 3rd Street meet at a three-way junction in Bellerose, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Detective William T. Gunn Playground is 1,270 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd, is 1,250 feet away for the Q43 and QM68, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk is one public place. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 2002, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
No crash on record
in any year the city publishes
Nearest highway entrance
Cross Island Parkway
0.7 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
1,250 feet
Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd · Q43, QM68
Within a walk
1 place
1 playground, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Avenue A & 3rd Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd, 1,250 feet away, for the Q43 and QM68.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/Winchester Blvd Q43, QM68 · Shelter
    1,250 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, 0.7 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
    0.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

No police-reported crash has been recorded at this corner in any year the city publishes.

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
102 feet above sea level

Homes

About 200 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 in 2002.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective William T. Gunn Playground
    1,270 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 corners on foot, three of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 3rd Street or Avenue A.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYPD, NYC Parks and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.