Horace Harding Expressway & 138th Street

Horace Harding Expressway and 138th Street meet at a three-way junction in Queensboro Hill, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. Queensboro Hill Library is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Horace Harding Expwy/Main St, is 510 feet away for the Q88, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and 12 places to eat.

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Horace Harding Expressway & 138th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Horace Harding Expwy/Main St, 510 feet away, for the Q88.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Horace Harding Expwy/Main St Q88 · Shelter
    510 feet
    Q88
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q88 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 6 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 190 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 49-04 College Point Boulevard Gas station
    0.9 miles
  2. 40-24 College Point Boulevard Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger and three fast chargers
    1.4 miles

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

  • 6 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11367
Community board
Queens Community Board 7
City Council district
20
Police precinct
109
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Queensboro Hill
Elevation
73 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to three travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 600 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 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 43 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 19 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2021 and July 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 138th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of 138th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of Horace Harding Expressway

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 8 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-10AM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 library
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Kissena Cherry Daycare Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    740 feet
  2. P.S. 120 Queens School
    1,200 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Queensboro Hill Library
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Yong Fa Supermarket Supermarket
    860 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 12 places to eat and three food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 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.