Horace Harding Expressway & 212th Street at Long Island Expressway

Horace Harding Expressway, 212th Street and Long Island Expressway meet at a four-way crossing in Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Cunningham Park is 850 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Horace Harding Expwy/214 St, is 630 feet away for the Q30 and Q75, and seven bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, five of them religious buildings. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1945 and 1950, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Horace Harding Expressway & 212th Street at Long Island Expressway Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Horace Harding Expwy/214 St, 630 feet away, for the Q30 and Q75.

  • 7 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Horace Harding Expwy/214 St Q30, Q75
    630 feet
    Q30 Q75

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q30 …
  2. Q75 …

Live arrivals

By car

A ramp to the Long Island Expressway eastbound starts at this corner.

  1. 219-02 Horace Harding Expressway Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 47-14 217th Street Charging for electric cars, one Level 2 charger
    1 mile
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

No police-reported crashes between 2021 and 2025, against a median of three crashes for a Queens corner.

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2015.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11364
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
23
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills
Elevation
85 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 200 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 29 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the sweetgum.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 1 sign on these blocks
  • 1 rule

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded in August 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Horace Harding Expressway

  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 5 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Holy Martyrs School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5
    750 feet
  2. J.H.S. 074 Nathaniel Hawthorne School
    870 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Cunningham Park
    850 feet
  2. Seven Gables Playground
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs House of worship
    750 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 signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, four of them 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 and NYC Health, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.