Hillside Avenue & Avenue C

Hillside Avenue and Avenue C meet at a three-way junction in Bellerose, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. In 2025, 17,156 school-zone speed camera tickets were recorded here. Cross Island YMCA is 890 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/235 St, is 50 feet away for the Q43, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them schools. About 100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1925 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Hillside Avenue & Avenue C Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/235 St, 50 feet away, for the Q43.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/235 St Q43
    50 feet
    Q43

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q43 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Cross Island Parkway southbound at Cross Island Parkway & 85th Avenue, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 241-15 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 238-10 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,000 feet

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

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2016

In 2025, 17,156 school-zone speed camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 27th most of the 1,957 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through August 27, 6,772 more were issued.

Every corner with speed camera tickets

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
97 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 100 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 1925 and 1950.

Trees

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

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 schools
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 recreation center

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 018 Winchester School
    820 feet
  2. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    930 feet
  3. Interdisciplinary Cntr -Cross Island School
    960 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Detective William T. Gunn Playground
    60 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cross Island YMCA Recreation center
    890 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 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, six of them within a three-minute walk:

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