Cross Island Parkway & 208th Place

Cross Island Parkway and 208th Place meet at a three-way junction in Bay Terrace-Clearview, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Little Bay Park is 520 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Cross Island Pkwy/209 St, is 370 feet away for the Q16, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places, two of them parks, and three places to eat.

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Cross Island Parkway & 208th Place Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Cross Island Pkwy/209 St, 370 feet away, for the Q16.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Cross Island Pkwy/209 St Q16
    370 feet
    Q16

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q16 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Cross Island Parkway & Bell Boulevard at Totten Avenue, 600 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 18-10 Utopia Parkway Gas station
    1 mile
  2. 2 Bay Club Drive Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    1 mile
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.1 miles

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11360
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
19
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Terrace-Clearview
Elevation
9 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1969 and 1985.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 7 signs on these blocks
  • 2 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Cross Island Parkway

  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 parks
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Stream Academy by the Bay School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    190 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Little Bay Park
    520 feet
  2. Fort Totten Park
    1,080 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and one food store.

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 corners on foot, seven of them 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 and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.