Bell Boulevard & 51st Avenue

Bell Boulevard and 51st Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bayside, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Colonial Church of Bayside is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 216 St/Luke Pl, is 630 feet away for the Q27, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places, two of them religious buildings, and four places to eat.

Map

Layers
Bell Boulevard & 51st Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 216 St/Luke Pl, 630 feet away, for the Q27.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 216 St/Luke Pl Q27
    630 feet
    Q27

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q27 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 219-02 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.7 miles
  2. 47-14 217th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    0.4 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    0.9 miles

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11364
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
23
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bayside
Elevation
72 feet above sea level

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 1940.

Trees

NYC Parks records 53 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Norway maple.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 2 signs on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in March 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Bell Boulevard

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Captain Dermody Triangle
    1,160 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Colonial Church of Bayside House of worship
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Foodtown Supermarket
    1,130 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two 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 designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 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.