Hillside Avenue & Cross Island Parkway

Hillside Avenue and Cross Island Parkway meet at a three-way junction in Bellerose, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Cross Island YMCA is 1,250 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Hillside Av/239 St, is 570 feet away for the Q43, and two bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are four public places. About 300 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1940 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Hillside Avenue & Cross Island Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Hillside Av/239 St, 570 feet away, for the Q43.

  • 2 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Hillside Av/239 St Q43
    570 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 northbound at Cross Island Parkway & Hillside Avenue, 430 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 241-15 Hillside Avenue Gas station
    460 feet
  2. 238-10 Hillside Avenue Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1,310 feet

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
101 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

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 1940 and 1950.

Trees

NYC Parks records 32 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Four public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 recreation center
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,200 feet
  2. Interdisciplinary Cntr -Cross Island School
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Cross Island YMCA Recreation center
    1,250 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is 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 parking sign or meter on the blocks meeting here
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 16 corners within a three-minute walk:

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