Hillside Avenue & 252nd Street

Hillside Avenue and 252nd Street meet at a four-way crossing in Bellerose, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Bellerose Library is 550 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/Little Neck Pkwy, is 380 feet away for the Q43 and QM68, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are one public place and nine places to eat. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1945 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Hillside Avenue & 252nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/Little Neck Pkwy, 380 feet away, for the Q43 and QM68.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/Little Neck Pkwy Q43, QM68
    380 feet
    Q43 QM68

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q43 …
  2. QM68 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 35 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway northbound at Cross Island Parkway & Hillside Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 241-15 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 238-10 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.7 miles

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2023.

What the city has done here

  • Safety Improvement Project, 2024

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
95 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

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 1945 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 45 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the European hornbeam.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 5 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between November 2015 and January 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Hillside Avenue

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • Time-limited parking 1 sign 2 HOUR PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • Truck loading only 1 sign TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-7PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY 9AM-3PM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 404739.

Places within a walk

How places are listed

One public place is within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 library

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Bellerose Library
    550 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and nine food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, 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.