Horace Harding Expressway & 252nd Street

Horace Harding Expressway and 252nd Street meet at a three-way junction in Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens. The corner has a clean safety record in city data between 2021 and 2025. Nassau Mall is 1,090 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Horace Harding Expwy/252 St, is 110 feet away for the Q30, and five bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are two public places and four places to eat. About 200 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1945 and 1960, almost all in houses of one or two.

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Horace Harding Expressway & 252nd Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Horace Harding Expwy/252 St, 110 feet away, for the Q30.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Horace Harding Expwy/252 St Q30
    110 feet
    Q30

Next buses at this stop

  1. Q30 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Long Island Expressway westbound at Horace Harding Expressway & 254th Street at Long Island Expressway, 0.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 248-76 Marathon Parkway Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 249-31 61st Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 214-32 41st Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2.8 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 July 2018.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11362
Community board
Queens Community Board 11
City Council district
19
Police precinct
111
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Douglaston-Little Neck
Elevation
174 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Posted limits from 25 to 30 mph
  • One of the streets is 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 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 35 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the pin oak.

Parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Two public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 park
  • 1 religious building

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Nassau Mall
    1,090 feet

Bank branches

  1. Flagstar Bank Bank branch
    790 feet

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are four places to eat and two food stores.

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 9 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, FDIC, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.