Horace Harding Expressway & 164th Street

Horace Harding Expressway and 164th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner. In 2025, 38 red-light camera tickets were recorded here. Electric Playground is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, 164 St/Horace Harding Expwy, is 50 feet away for the Q74, QM4 and QM44, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places and one place to eat.

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Horace Harding Expressway & 164th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 164 St/Horace Harding Expwy, 50 feet away, for the Q74, QM4 and QM44.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 164 St/Horace Harding Expwy Q74, QM4, QM44
    50 feet
    Q74 QM4 QM44

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q74 …
  2. QM4 …
  3. QM44 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound at Horace Harding Expressway & Long Island Expressway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 61-19 Fresh Meadow Lane Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 41-61 Kissena Boulevard Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    2.1 miles
  3. 135-23 39th Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 May 2026.

In 2025, 38 red-light camera tickets were issued for violations recorded at this corner, the 189th most of the 200 corners in the city where any were issued.

In 2026 so far, through July 26, 732 more were issued.

Every corner with red-light camera tickets

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11365
Community board
Queens Community Board 8
City Council district
20 and 24 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
107
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest
Elevation
81 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 30 mph
  • One of the streets is 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 1935 and 1970.

Trees

NYC Parks records 39 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the London planetree and the pin oak.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 12 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2025 and March 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 164th Street

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 10:30AM-NOON

West side of 164th Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 10:30AM-NOON

North side of Horace Harding Expressway

  • Bus layover only 2 signs MTA BUS LAYOVER ONLY 6AM-10PM ALL DAYS NO ENGINE IDLING MAX FINE $2000
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING 10PM-6AM ALL DAYS

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building

Schools and child care

  1. Prime Time Care Preschool
    490 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Electric Playground
    620 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Queens Health Emporium Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC Finance, 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.